COMPETITION: Designers Wanted!

Any Alvaro Bautista fan who fancies getting their work out on the web, and who fancies a cute little golden '19' pin badge, should go over to BatiFans.com and check out our latest competition...

We're going to be affiliating with some official MotoGP riders websites/forums and as part of this there will be a 'button' exchange - we will have little graphic buttons somewhere on our pages and so will the other forums.
So - the competition is to design a small, very groovy, graphic button (100 pixels wide by 35 pixels deep) featuring a pic of Alvaro (action? portrait? up to you...) which may be graphically treated in any way and which also features the words "Alvaro Bautista". Any BatiFans.com forum member can enter.

The winner will get a very cool, very rare, little metal '19' badge pin which looks great in a jacket or shirt.
There's a topic with further details here...
Good luck if you plan on entering :)
Closing date is 12/01/08

Happy Christmas Alvaro - & All The Bati Fans Out There

Well; this is really just a kind of very general, off-topic post to say a Happy Christmas to all the other Bati fans out there.
Obviously there's not really much in the way of direct news about Alvaro right now, so I'm not doing much updating on the blog.
That's not to say I'm not online or doing Bati-related things; we'll definitely be keeping up the chat over at BatiFans.com - The Alvaro Bautista Fan Forum - especially now stv21's back from the USA and I'm back from a quick and heavenly hot break in west Africa.

I got back to London at 4am on Saturday and following a frenzy of unpacking and re-packing came up to Lincolnshire yesterday on a very chilly, very early morning journey through freezing fog, to spend Xmas with my folks.
My MotoGP season review DVD has arrived so I'm looking forward to sitting down at watching that, although I'd really have liked to get the 250cc/125cc review first.
So a few days up here, and getting used to the cold again - then back to London inn time for new year.

So that's it really... Have a great Christmas - and let me be the first to give you a quick festive snog under the mistletoe which I've conveniently and sneakily hung at the top of this post. No tongues though... lol :)
Happy 2008 to you, and for Alvaro of course, who I'm dying to follow through another great season. Can't wait for it all to start again!

Cheers,
gb

Away on Holiday!

Right - well I'm off to sunny, hot, fab Gambia for a week before Christmas hits us.
If you want any breaking Bati news, or MotoGP chat in general then go to the Alvaro Bautista Fan Forum at BatiFans.com where all our special Christmas downloads - wallpapers, icons, videos and pictures - are already online; special treats for special fans of the very special Alvaro Bautista :)

Christmas Is Coming For Alvaro Bautista Fans

If you're a Bati fan, then you should get over to our Alvaro Bautista Fan Site & Forum as we've got some really cool Christmas prezzies coming up in the next few days for our members.
Can't really say much more that that, or it'll spoil the surprise :)

'Historias Sobre Ruedas' Clips on Youtube

Go check out the videoclips posted by GaSa34 on Youtube for some cool clips of some of MotoGP's nice guys (and in lower classes too, not only the main MotoGP class, but also 250 and 125).
There's short documentaries (in Spanish) from a series called 'Historias sobre ruedas' on riders such as Andrea Dovizioso, Hector Barbera, both Aleix and Pol Espargaro and Aspar's 125 squad newbie for 2008, Pere Tutusaus (who's in the clip above)....