DOHA: Even for a sport used to very high speeds, the pace at which a patch of desert in Qatar has been turned into the venue for world motorcycling's first foray into the Middle East is nothing short of remarkable.
When the MotoGP bandwagon arrives this week for Saturday's inaugural Qatar Grand Prix, it will be little more than 15 months since the deal was announced to bring grand prix motorcycling to the Gulf of Arabia.
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