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Moto2 Brno: Andrea Iannone wins last lap battle
If someone had bet on either Marc Marquez or Stefan Bradl would win the Moto2 race at Brno, they would have lost their bet because outsider Andrea Iannone came out of the blue to take the victory and ending his long drought.
Iannone who’s last victory was at Jerez, triumphed after a five way drag out fight, that included Marc Marquez, Stefan Bradl, Alex de Angelis and Thomas Luthi, that almost went almost to the line in a thrilling race which saw a rash of crashes in the first two laps and dozens of overtakes for the lead.
The Italian was almost perfect as he seized the lead from Marquez on the last lap after the Spaniard found himself trying to fending off last attempt attacks by Stefan Bradl who in turn was trying to fend off Alex de Angelis. Marquez managed to slightly shake off the German rider when Bradl ran wide, but the Spaniard just couldn’t find enough power and the right place to pass Iannone and finished the race just 0.161s from the Speed Master rider, with Bradl taking the podium in third.
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Moto2 Brno: Toni Elias wins and lengthens championship lead
Toni Elias stretched his Moto2 Championship lead in today’s race by taking his fourth race win of the season at Brno.
The Spaniard emerged the winner after several riders battled it out for the lead at the beginning of the race until the field began to thin out with Andrea Iannone grabbing the lead on lap 6 and began to pull away, but Elias wasn’t having any and began to hunt down the Italian with Roberto Rolfo hot on his tail.
After several passing attempts Elias took the the lead on lap 14 from Iannone with Rolfo also passing Iannone. The battle wasn’t over, Rolfo then grabbed the lead from but went wide letting the Gresini rider through. One lap later Rolfo’s Suter MMX suffered an engine failure and had to pull out of the race leaving Iannone in second.
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Alex Debon's Wild Save at Brno (w/video)
Yesterday’s Moto2 qualifying session at Brno was crash strewn with Karel Abraham getting the gold medal for two crashes in the same session, but it was veteran Spanish rider Alex Debon on his Aeroport de Castelló- Ajo liveried FTR M210 bike who captured the attention of everyone with this sensational elbow, leg and buttock save.
Debon makes Colin Edwards 2008 Jerez qualifying save look almost tame (video after the jump).
Moto2 Brno: Shoya Tomizawa takes the Pole
Technomag-CIP’s Shoya Tomizawa took his second pole position of the season in today’s Moto2 qualifying session at Brno. The Japanese rider layed down a best lap of 2’03.452 admid traffic to leave Andrea Iannone who was looking for his fourth pole position in second and 0.232s behind.
Toni Elias who was banned from Friday’s free practice as punishment for a test session at Misano last Sunday, had been fastest in this morning’s practice will start the race on the third spot of the grid and completing the front row will be Roberto Rolfo riding an upgraded aerodynamic version of the Suter MMX.
On the second row of the grid will be Yuki Takahashi, Dominique Aegerter, Simone Corsi who was the final rider withing a second from Tomizawa. Arne Tode, Julián Simón and Scott Redding completed the top ten.
Thomas Luthi who is currently second in the championship 42 points behind Elias, will start in 13th.
Brno homeboy Karel Abraham, who will in MotoGP next season on a satellite Ducati crashed out this morning but also twice during the qualifying session and the second crash saw his bike fly over the tire barrier and will have to start in 34th. Others to crash during the session included Axel Pons, Yonni Hernandez and Raffaele de Rosa.
Moto2: Team Gresini Fined and Toni Elias barred from Friday FP
Not reading carefully the FIM rules and regulations has gotten Gresini Racing Moto2 team into trouble. Toni Elias and his team, who tested new elements on their Moriwaki machine for two hours last Sunday at the Misano circuit have been fined for violating the current 2010 testing rules.
The team will be fined 3000 euros and Toni Elias will not be able to take part in tomorrow’s free practice at Brno.
Source | gpone.com
Moto2: RSM Scot Racing will be at Brno with Suter bike
Just yesterday we revealed that RSM Scot Racing was having economic problems and that Rapid Inside NCS had announced the end of their cooperation with the team (they supplied the frame) and that a court order had been issued and that the Sammarinese team was at risk of skipping this weekend’s Brno GP.
However Mularoni’s Moto2 team seems to have momentarily solved their woes and will be present in the Czech Republic and according to today’s press release Niccolò Canepa will be riding a full fledged Moto2 Suter Racing bike instead of their GP210 Force machine.
Emanuele Ventura (Technical Director): “Suter assured us a competitive bike, updated with all the solutions resulting from the experience collected in the first part of the Championship. It is a new bike for us, but Suter technical personnel will support our crew at this GP, to minimise the time necessary to us to study it and allow Niccolò to ride at his best”.
There is no mention if they will be replacing Andrew Pitt (the unlucky Aussie rider broke his collarbone in three places during race 2 of the BSB Championship round at Brands Hatch last weekend) who was supposed to make his Moto2 debut at Brno in place of Alex de Angelis who is currently subbing for injured Hiroshi Aoyama in MotoGP.
Moto2: RSM Team Scot to skip Brno and the rest of the season?
That Moto2 RSM Team Scot is having economic woes isn’t exactly new news, however the San Marino based team who fields former MotoGP riders Niccolò Canepa and Alex de Angelis, who is currently subbing for Hiroshi Aoyama in Daniel Epp’s MotoGP Interwetten team may not make it for the upcoming Czech GP and may even have to drop out of the rest of the Moto2 racing season.
The team owned by Cirano Mularoni, who just last year won the last 250cc World Championship with Hiroshi Aoyama and runs under the colors of the Republic of San Marino, has funding problems and just the other day, Rapid Inside NCS who supplies the chassis for their Force GP210 bikes officially dropped their partnership with the team due to continuing unpaid debts by the Sammarinese team and have already had a court issued against the team to recoup their unpaid bills.
Unless Mularoni finds enough cash or backers to pay his debts in the following two or three days, the team’s partecipation in the Brno GP is very highly in doubt.
Source | motoworld.es and bikeracing.it
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