One thing that has been lacking for the last year and a half in MotoGP is bad blood. There have been and are some riders that don’t get along this season, but nothing crazy. Hayden and Pedrosa don’t talk much. So what. They don’t try to elbow each other off of the track. They haven’t made promises guaranteeing the other’s failure. This is the type of drama that has been absent. Rossi and Stoner, the two dominant riders for the past couple of seasons, get along swimmingly. All of this may change again, starting next season. Don’t look now, but Sete Gibernau is making his return to GP in 2009. Gibernau, the GP veteran wet condition favorite, does not like Rossi, at all. Rossi returns the sentiments. In the season of 2004 at the inaugural running of the Losail circuit in Qatar, Rossi’s crew was clearing some sand from the starting grid before the race. Apparently this is not allowed. According to Rossi’s camp, Gibernau or his crew ratted out Rossi’s team, which ended up in Rossi being penalized by having to start at the back of the grid. Rossi, being angry and determined, ended up crashing out, as he tried to make his way through the field of riders. Gibernau went on to win the race. Rossi was so pissed off about it, that he swore that Gibernau would never win another GP race, as long as Rossi was racing. So far, he has been able to make good on it. With Gibernau returning to MotoGP, I predict a Max Biaggi-scale rivalry to come about, as the season unfolds next year. Rossi is a stubborn man. I think that he will continue to do everything in his power to keep Gibernau from winning a race. It should make for some interesting drama next season.