<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jeff in ohio @ Aug 28 2009, 09:53 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Jumkie,
you've got quite the pic there as Peddy is usually about impossible to spot in the pit so I am told. I borrowed a mates pit pass and did the pit thing and saw about everyone other than him. About got run down by Kallio on a scooter. We just got back in. we ran into Vale, Uccio, and Davide Brivio and the whole Fiat crew outside the Ruths Chris steakhouse one block west of all the stuff on Meridian. who would have thought those guys would be out at midnight before qualifying. Rossi was just standing out there smoking a cigarette, so we just had to sto and shake his hand and wish him well. And to think, some guy at the auction today payed $8k for a picture and the opportunity to come up on stag and shake his hand.....
other interesting notes...spoke with Guy Coulon at length while he was looking at Roberts TZ bike....JT has 50/50 chance of staying with Tech 3 he says...but...then my friend had a chat with Steve Parrish in the pits...JT also has an offer on the table from LCR Honda....
we have Alvaro Bautista and his crew at our hotel...walked in with them last night, and the entire Gresini team is staying on our floor a few rooms down. Its been a good first day..
You got pics with Rossi didn't you?
Interesting story about Rossi. I guess he doesn't get to do that too often in Italy cause he would be mobbed there. He needs to come to the US more often he could walk around a whole day and only a few people would take notice
Did you tell Kallio to take it easy with Stoner's engines?
Also tell Bautista when you see him that he can take the Suzi to the top step (try and keep a serious face when you say it
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