Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar

S1 E1: The five-month wait for the start of the 2010 MotoGP World Championship came to an end in April at the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar, and an eventful opening race at Losail did not let fans down. An exciting start saw Dani Pedrosa shoot up from seventh on the grid to lead the field into Turn One, and as the opening laps unfolded the Spaniard, Valentino Rossi, poleman Casey Stoner and his team-mate Nicky Hayden commenced a battle at the front. Drama unfolded as Stoner lost the front of his bike on the sixth lap when in the lead, dramatically ending his race after being the huge favourite to take Qatari victory for the fourth successive year. Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso then battled at the front for a while before Rossi shot off and Dovizioso found himself in an intense fight with Nicky Hayden second and third position respectively, before Lorenzo got in the mix surpassing the two to take second spot, behind Rossi. Dovizioso claimed third in a sprint for the line as he held off Hayden by 0.011s. In Moto2, Shoya Tomizawa made history as the first ever winner of the new category, after frontrunners Alex de Angelis and Stefan Bradl collided and crashed out and Julián Simón retired. In 125cc Nico Terol rode the perfect race to start his challenge for the title with a victory, emerging victorious from a group of seven riders battling a close fight for much of the race.