Round two of the Moto2 class gave up another exciting race thriller that was also red flagged, with Gresini rider Toni Elias taking a highly fought and spectacular win in Jerez.

The race was cut to only 17 laps instead of 26, when 9 riders fell on the oil spilled from Shoya Tomizawa’s Suter chassis bike. Simone Corsi who came up from 10th on the grid on the opening lap and put in a pass on Shoya Tomizawa taking them both down and with riders behind them sliding on the oil causing a massive rider pile-up.

The re-start saw no less than five riders taking turns to lead, with Kenny Noyes, Toni Elías, Shoya Tomizawa and then Thomas Lüthi jockying for first place. With six laps to go there were up to nine riders with a chance of taking the win with Simone Corsi and Sergio Gadea catching up to the group.

With less than half a second separating Elías, Tomizawa, Lüthi and Takahashi went into the last lap where Elias took the lead from Tomizawa at the second corner and despite running wide at the Dry Sack, kept his bike under control and rushed to the finish line ahead of the Japanese rider by just 0.190s and third went to Thomas Luthi who was just 0.071 from Tomizawa.

Moto2 Jerez Race Results:

1 24 Toni ELIAS SPA Gresini Racing Moto2 29:58.726
2 48 Shoya TOMIZAWA JPN Technomag-CIP 29:58.916
3 12 Thomas LUTHI SWI Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2 29:58.987
4 72 Yuki TAKAHASHI JPN Tech 3 Racing 29:59.284
5 3 Simone CORSI ITA JIR Moto2 30:00.175
6 40 Sergio GADEA SPA Tenerife 40 Pons 30:00.222
7 9 Kenny NOYES USA Jack & Jones by A.Banderas 30:00.941
8 60 Julian SIMON SPA Mapfre Aspar Team 30:01.302
9 2 Gabor TALMACSI HUN Fimmco Speed Up 30:02.551
10 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Blusens-STX 30:05.417
11 16 Jules CLUZEL FRA Forward Racing 30:06.849
12 44 Roberto ROLFO ITA Italtrans S.T.R. 30:10.691
13 77 Dominique AEGERTER SWI Technomag-CIP 30:10.916
14 65 Stefan BRADL GER Viessmann Kiefer Racing 30:11.021
15 8 Anthony WEST AUS MZ Racing Team 30:11.271
16 45 Scott REDDING GBR Marc VDS Racing Team 30:11.404
17 14 Ratthapark WILAIROT THA Thai Honda PTT Singha SAG 30:12.274
18 71 Claudio CORTI ITA Forward Racing 30:14.368
19 80 Axel PONS SPA Tenerife 40 Pons 30:15.466
20 35 Raffaele DE ROSA ITA Tech 3 Racing 30:18.094
21 10 Fonsi NIETO SPA Holiday Gym G22 30:19.682
22 63 Mike DI MEGLIO FRA Mapfre Aspar Team 30:19.855
23 61 Vladimir IVANOV UKR Gresini Racing Moto2 30:29.950
24 39 Robertino PIETRI VEN Italtrans S.T.R. 30:30.001
25 6 Alex DEBON SPA Aeroport de Castello - Ajo 30:32.009
26 52 Lukas PESEK CZE Matteoni CP Racing 30:32.816
27 76 Bernat MARTINEZ SPA Maquinza-SAG Team 30:37.431
28 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing 30:38.110
29 41 Arne TODE GER Racing Team Germany 30:42.565
30 92 Amadeo LLADOS SPA Llados Racing Team 30:45.622
31 53 Valentin DEBISE FRA WTR San Marino Team 30:45.806
32 25 Alex BALDOLINI ITA Caretta Technology Race Dept 30:45.942
33 88 Yannick GUERRA SPA Holiday Gym G22 30:46.503
34 95 Mashel AL NAIMI QAT Blusens-STX 30:55.321
35 91 Ivan MORENO SPA Andalucia Cajasol 14:28.855
36 59 Niccolo CANEPA ITA RSM Team Scot 15:06.782
37 75 Mattia PASINI ITA JIR Moto2 10:54.743
38 55 Hector FAUBEL SPA Marc VDS Racing Team 3:43.545

DNF
39 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Fimmco Speed Up
40 5 Joan OLIVE SPA Jack & Jones by A.Banderas

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