Don't mention the lights.

The season-opening Qatar night race might produce enough light to illuminate a hypothetical street running from Doha to Moscow - and require 5.4 million watts or power, enough to provide electricity simultaneously to some 3,000 houses - but the FIM says this weekend's Catalan Grand Prix 'will be the most ecologically sound MotoGP event to date.'

"The FIM is one of the first international sporting federations to have signed an agreement with the United Nations Environmental Programme, at the end of 2006," read an FIM statement released on Friday. "This year, the FIM increased the number of celebrations of the World Environment Day around the world over the past week during FIM World Championship ...