Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar- Results Spoiler Alert

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Can't wait until April 13th for the next one!

3/24/14: Follow-up: Fun was had by all! It was just a few of us enjoying some brew, hamburgers, hot dogs, and a very exciting race!! Hopefully Jorge Lorenzo manages to keep the shiny side up next race. It was bummer to see him crash out in the very beginning of the race but what a treat to watch Valentino Rossi come so far from his tenth place start.

Official Results: 

COMMERCIAL BANK GRAND PRIX OF QATAR

MotoGP Race Classification 2014 

Doha, Sunday, March 23, 2014

Pos.	Points	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time/Gap
1	25	93	Marc MARQUEZ	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	166.4	42'40.561
2	20	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	166.3	+0.259
3	16	26	Dani PEDROSA	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	166.1	+3.370
4	13	41	Aleix ESPARGARO	SPA	NGM Forward Racing	Forward Yamaha	165.6	+11.623
5	11	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	165.6	+12.159
6	10	35	Cal CRUTCHLOW	GBR	Ducati Team	Ducati	164.5	+28.526
7	9	45	Scott REDDING	GBR	GO&FUN Honda Gresini	Honda	164.3	+32.593
8	8	69	Nicky HAYDEN	USA	Drive M7 Aspar	Honda	164.3	+32.628
9	7	5	Colin EDWARDS	USA	NGM Forward Racing	Forward Yamaha	163.8	+39.547
10	6	29	Andrea IANNONE	ITA	Pramac Racing	Ducati	163.6	+43.360
11	5	7	Hiroshi AOYAMA	JPN	Drive M7 Aspar	Honda	163.4	+46.595
12	4	68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	COL	Energy T.I. Pramac Racing	Ducati	163.4	+46.688
13	3	17	Karel ABRAHAM	CZE	Cardion AB Motoracing	Honda	163.1	+50.581
14	2	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	ITA	IodaRacing Project	ART	162.4	+1'03.127
15	1	23	Broc PARKES	AUS	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	161.7	+1'14.386
16		70	Michael LAVERTY	GBR	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	160.5	+1'32.593
17		63	Mike DI MEGLIO	FRA	Avintia Racing	Avintia	160.3	+1'36.085
Not Classified
		19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	SPA	GO&FUN Honda Gresini	Honda	166.2	2 Laps
		38	Bradley SMITH	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	166.1	4 Laps
		44	Pol ESPARGARO	SPA	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	165.0	5 Laps
		6	Stefan BRADL	GER	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	165.6	14 Laps
		8	Hector BARBERA	SPA	Avintia Racing	Avintia	160.7	18 Laps
		99	Jorge LORENZO	SPA	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha		0 Lap

Saturday

Spent Saturday cleaning so we would be ready for race day(Moto GP opener) tomorrow. Decided it was time for the tortoises to have a little bath. Despite being native to the desert, these guys sure love the water when they get a hold of it.

Log Splitter

This week has been the deciding factor for buying a hydraulic motorized log splitter before too long. We took down an entire tree and split the wood by hand. It was not a great way to get a work out but it was a great work out. The photo below is about 80% of what was split.

In short, it will be 1k well spent in my opinion. The sad part is that they don't seem to make it onto craigslist in good condition (for a reasonable price) very often. We will still start there and hope that we can find someone who want sto upgrade their 22ton+.

Follow-Up:

Well, we went and did it. We purchased a 28 ton Dirty Hands Tools gas powered log splitter. I could not be happier with it. We have now split seven FULL truck loads of wood and it has not missed a beat. Starts on the first pull and will go through anything you stick in there. I have found, that despite the instructions listing the hydraulic oil capacity as 6.5 gallons, you should NOT fill it above the operating capacity level. It will poor all over your driveway through the breather cap and make the driveway very slippery in addition to the stain. Stop at the 5 gallon operating capacity and save yourself the mess.

I highly recommend this splitter but make sure that you have someone on hand to help you unload it and put it together. At 654 pounds, it is a struggle to move even the parts around alone. My wife and I were able to get everything out of the box in the back of the pickup and it took about an hour and a half to get everything unloaded and assembled. Most of the time was invested in trying to get certain heavy parts out of the back with the help of a motorcycle jack and temporary platform.