The proverbial fat lady has sung, it’s all over for another year and what a year it’s been. Chaz Davies, Marco Melandri and the newest addition to the team Michael Rinaldi, have provided some of the best motorsport racing we’ve seen in recent history. We’ve enjoyed sharing in their highs like Marcos fantastic double win in the 1^st round and Chaz bouncing back from injury to take his place on the podium again and again.

The last bout however didn’t exactly go to plan where in race 1 a premature alert tricked Chaz along with other riders in to thinking it was the last lap, when it wasn’t.

Marco and Chaz started race 1 way back on the grid, in 9^th and 12^th, following a difficult super-pole but in their usual style they worked hard, chasing for their place in the leading pack. Marco held 5^th until the end whereas Chaz, already experiencing hardware issues was further hindered by the aforementioned rogue sign, resulting in 8^th place.

If there was one round we thought you could rely on good weather for it was this one, hosted by the desert located track in Losail, Qatar. To everyone’s surprise, riders were informed that a storm was rolling in and the second race would have to be cancelled. The country gets an average of just 80mm of rain a year (to put this in perspective the UK had 1372mm in 2017) but unfortunately most of that deposited its self on the Losail International Circuit, which, despite the all-round disappointment, kept the riders from ending the season in hospital.

 

 

 

 

FAI would like to congratulate the whole of Team Aruba.it for a brilliant performance and a massive well done to Chaz & Marco for securing championship 2^nd & 5^th respectively. It’s been an honour and a privilege to sponsor such a talented and welcoming team.