MotoGP 800cc Round 1 – Ducati draws first blood

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Valentino Rossi	Fiat Yamaha team manager Jeremy Burgess and Valentino Rossi	Rossi and the team working on the biuke set-up during practice	The Doctor at work
Colin Edwards talks tires	Valentino Rossi	The tire warmers go on the M1 with a practice session approaching	Rossi says his prayers before getting on the bike
Edwards explains what he's feeling the bike doing at the end of a session	Click image to enlarge	Valentino Rossi	Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner side-by-side at 300 km/h	Stoner and his Ducati crew	The Doctor limbers up	Valentino Rossi, Tony Elias and Casey Stoner side-by-side at 300 km/
Early on the first lap and Rossi leads Stoner, Elias, Pedrosa, Edwards and Capirossi	Colin Edwards watches Rossi's crew discussions	Valentino Rossi	Rossi, Stoner and Pedrosa
Edwards on the grid	A very happy Ducati team portrait	Casey, Loris and the Ducati team	Casey Stoner
Casey Stoner leads Valentino Rossi	On the rostrum	His first win	A hapopy Ducati garage
Casey Stoner leads Valentino Rossi	Loris Capirossi	Loris Capirossi	Stoner snares the lead
Casey Stoner leads Valentino Rossi	John Hopkins almost gave the Suzuki its first podium in the dry	Chris Vermeulen scored seventh - on some tracks he'll be podium material	Hopkins
Hopkins	Randy dePunier	Randy dePunier	Olivier Jacque
Olivier Jacque leads Alex Barros, Sylvain Guintoli and Alex Hoffman	Click image to enlarge	Melandri, Hopkins and Capirossi	Hopkins and Pedrosa fought hard over third spot
The end of the first lap - from behind	Carlos Checa	Dani Pedrosa and his crew chief	Kenny Roberts Junior
Marco Melandri	Honda chief Mr Tokuma	Hayden	Shinya Nakano
Checa gets it out of shape	Hayden leads Pedrosa	Nicky Hayden	Shinya Nakano
Shinya Nakano	Toni Elias	Toni Elias	Hopkins closing in on Pedrosa
Pedrosa	Pedrosa	An eleventh hour sponsorship deal will enable the Kenny Roberts team to do the full season	Melandri
Hayden	Shinya Nakano	Chris Vermeulen