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    Fans for the memories

    Dec 05, 2018 3 minutes
    The High Sider

    The first time I recall switching a race off on TV before it finished was on Saturday, October 2, 2004. I was watching Eurosport’s coverage of the Qatar MotoGP round, from Qatar, with Toby Moody and Julian Ryder commentating, not in Qatar but in a broom cupboard in west London. But that wasn’t the reason I switched off prematurely.

    By the Qatar round that year, three times top class world champ Valentino Rossi was 13 races into a Yamaha career after three titles with Honda. Rossi won the opening race

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