The sport’s elite riders with their prototype racing machines. Casey Stoner, the defending champion, faces up to the people’s champion Valentino Rossi, but for both there is the ever present, and growing threat of home-spun hero James Toseland.
Adding to this three day sporting festival there are races counting to the World 125cc and 250cc Championships plus domestic race action and other off track attractions to entertain and excite.
Valentino Rossi is the crowd pleaser but the seven times World Champion has a battle on his hands to maintain his strong Donington Park pedigree – the Fiat Yamaha rider will be desperate for a MotoGP victory at a circuit he rates as his second home in his efforts to regain the crown he last held in 2005.
Rossi has held the elite crown for five years and he recently fired a warning ot his rivals that he is back in business, ending a seven race run without a win by taking a Chinese success at Shanghai.
Nicky Hayden, the Repsol Honda rider who first snatched the title from his grasp, is back for more, but the real threat is the highly talented Aussie Casey Stoner aboard the Marlboro Ducati who reckons he can hit-back from a tough start to continue the domination that earned him the rights to carry the ‘number one’ plate.
Home-spun hero James Toseland, the two times World Superbike Champion, will be keen to make his mark aboard the Tech3 Yamaha by upstaging the big-three in his ‘rookie’ season among the sport’s elite.
Action also centres on the 250cc World Championship, with Eugene Laverty a strong contender, while in the 125cc World Champion, Oxford teenager Bradley Smith, riding Aprilia, could be tasting the champagne with both Danny Webb and Scott Redding well on the pace.
Clinton Enterprises will be there with our stand and a complete display of motorsport merchandise for fans. Remember Clinton is the official supplier for British motorsport merchandise.
