From watching the practice sessions for the Catalonia GP, it seemed obvious that Stoner would be the man to beat this Sunday and Lorenzo would not be too far behind. The Mallorcan got the best start to get ahead of the Australian, but his lead was conceded on the second lap. The two escaped from [...]
The track for the Moto2 Catalan GP was seemingly less damp than for the early 125cc race, but the asphalt still presented a wealth of problems for the intermediate class riders. The equality in lap times shown during the practice sessions was mirrored on race day, despite Stefan Bradl trying to pull away. The hopes [...]
Despite heavy overnight rain, Race Direction at Montmeló declared the 125cc race dry for the 11am start. The decision was the correct choice, although the track still presented a tricky surface for the lower cylinder category. That meant some cautious riding, from which Nico Terol and Maverick Viñales benefited to break free at the front [...]
Pos Rider Team Time/Gap 1 Casey STONER Repsol Honda Team 43’19.779 2 Jorge LORENZO Yamaha Factory Racing +2.403 3 Ben SPIES Yamaha Factory Racing +4.291 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Repsol Honda Team +5.255 5 Valentino ROSSI Ducati Team +7.371 6 Marco SIMONCELLI San Carlo Honda Gresini +11.831 7 Cal CRUTCHLOW Monster Yamaha Tech 3 +26.483 8 [...]
Pos Nº Rider Bike Laps Time Delay/Retirement 1 65 Stefan Bradl Kalex/Honda 23 41’38.888 2 93 Marc Márquez Suter/Honda 23 41’43.029 4.141 3 40 Aleix Espargaró Pons Kalex/Honda 23 41’47.297 8.409 4 3 Simone Corsi FTR/Honda 23 41’49.219 10.331 5 4 R.Krummenacher Kalex/Honda 23 41’50.549 11.661 6 15 Alex de Angelis Motobi/Honda 23 41’51.271 12.383 [...]
Pos Nº Rider Bike Laps Time Delay/Retirement 1 18 Nicolas Terol Aprilia 22 42’29.647 2 25 Maverick Viñales Aprilia 22 42’40.003 10.356 3 94 Jonas Folger Aprilia 22 42’44.907 15.260 4 11 Sandro Cortese Aprilia 22 42’45.317 15.670 5 7 Efrén Vazquez Derbi 22 42’45.589 15.942 6 5 Johann Zarco Derbi 22 42’49.405 19.758 7 [...]
As tends to happen in the ultra-competitive Moto2 class qualifying practice was a close affair, with the top fourteen riders inside a second. Light rainfall midway through the session was not enough to bring the riders in for wet tyres but it did affect the lap times, which were a second down on last year. [...]
Dani Pedrosa was not the only MotoGP absentee in Catalunya today as Colin Edwards was ruled out of qualifying, also with a broken collarbone, after crashing in free practice yesterday. With just fifteen riders set to line up on the grid they are all guaranteed points if they can finish the race. Casey Stoner maintained [...]
Thick black clouds hung over the Circuit de Catalunya just moments before 125cc qualifying took place this afternoon but thankfully the threat of a rainstorm abated as the riders took to the track in search of a quick early lap. Concern for the conditions made for an entertaining start to the session with various surprises [...]
Pos Nº Rider Bike Time Delay 1 65 Stefan Bradl Kalex/Honda 1’46.753 – 2 40 Aleix Espargaró Pons Kalex/Honda 1’46.867 0.114 3 72 Yuki Takahashi Moriwaki/Honda 1’46.978 0.225 4 12 Thomas Luthi Suter/Honda 1’47.068 0.315 5 93 Marc Márquez Suter/Honda 1’47.154 0.401 6 38 Bradley Smith Tech 3/Honda 1’47.207 0.454 7 36 Mika Kallio Suter/Honda [...]