Today’s Moto2 race at Indianapolis was no different than the 125cc race as Marc Marquez flew to victory in a superb and dominating fashion. The rookie Moto2 rider took eight laps to take the lead after loosing out his pole position first to Bradley Smith who got the hole shot, and then Simone Corsi who slipstreamed the Tech3 rider on the straight at the end of the first lap, but Marquez used his head and the fact that he was one of the few riders that didn’t have any tire problems to take a six second lead before slowing down and finish the 26 lap race with a 1.889 second margin.

The battle for second was much more exciting over the race distance as Corsi, Smith, Andrea Iannone, Esteve Rabat and Scott Redding tried to outwit each other while trying to conserve their tires, but Redding and mostly Corsi and Iannone started to rapidly fade leaving Pol Espargaro who came from 23rd on the grid and Tito Rabat to fight over the second position.

Pol Espargaro managed keep Rabat behind him to take second with Rabat third, making it an all Spanish rostrum and both riders taking their first ever Moto2 podium.

Continue reading: Marc Marquez wins Moto2 race at Indianapolis and re-opens championship

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JD Beach will see some familar paddock faces when the Indianapolis GP rolls around next weekend, as the young American rider will be substituting for Tommaso Lorenzetti (who replaced Kev Coghlan, the Scottish rider who was axed before the Mugello GP) in Alex Debon’s Moto2 Aeroport de Castello/Cartellon Mediterraneo Blumaq team.

Beach who is only 19, took his first title in 2008 in the Red Bull Rookie Cup while becoming friends with Casey Stoner who let him couch surf at his apartment in Montecarlo. The youngster then began racing in the AMA Pro Racing and in 2010 took the AMA Pro SuperSport East championship and took fourth this year in his first ever Daytona 200 on a Kawasaki ZX-10R.

As a substitute rider Beach will not be able to test the FTR M211 Moto2 bike beforehand, however he’ll get a chance to test a Honda CBR600RR (the Honda 600 engines used in Moto2 are prepared by Geo Technology) provided by Peak Powersports during this week’s AMA Pro Racing test at the Indianapolis Speedway.

Source | A&R.com

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This was probably one of the worst racing weekend’s for popular Spanish rider Fonsi Nieto who rides a Moriwaki MD600 for his cousins Pablo and Gelete Nieto’s G22 Holiday Gym Moto2 team.

Nieto was one of the several Moto2 riders that crashed during the Moto2 qualifying session at Indianapolis and in the crash broke both his left heel and ankle bone and was later shipped off to the Indianapolis Methodist Hospital by the circuit’s medical center to be operated on and naturally did not take part in Sunday’s race.

On Sunday night after complaining of intense pain after his operation, Nieto was administered a stronger pain killer and unfortunately had adverse reaction to the drug, lost consciousness and went into respiratory arrest for forty long seconds. The Spaniard was immediately ventilated and regained consciousness completely unaware of what had happened.

Due to complications Nieto had to undergo a second operation on his ankle and will probably skip not only the upcoming race at Misano but also the Aragon GP.

Source | as.com

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Toni Elias grabbed a further hold on the Moto2 championship by winning his third straight race at Indianapolis. The Gresini Moriwaki rider despite suffering from a bad case of the flu was able to prevail again in a red flagged and shortened race.

The first start had to red flagged due to two separate multi pile-ups at Turn 2, with Lukas Pesek (who started the cannonball incident) Gabor Talmacsi, Simone Corsi and Michael Ranseder all going down and in the second, which included Yonny Hernandez, RogerLee Hayden, Shoya Tomizawa and Vladimir Ivanov. The race was shortened to 17 laps with Ranseder and Tomizawa unable to return to action in the restart, while Simone Corsi was pushed back to the last place on the grid for being late.

In the restart Elias got the hole shot while pole man Julian Simon dropped to fourth behind Anthony West and Scott Redding. Simon got past Redding on the third lap and then set his sights on West and got past him and then overtook Elias on lap four, while the back of the field was another crash fest. Ivanov took out Debon, Faubel binned his Suter while he was running in fifth with a trail of gas spilling out and catching fire on the asphalt. Bradl went down after tangling with Cluzel and the three front runners started distancing the rest of the group.

Continue reading: Video - Moto2 Indianapolis: Toni Elias wins in crash strewn race

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As we reported fifteen days ago, Moto2 RSM Team Scot economic woes have finally hit the fan and the Sammarinese team who has already dropped Alex de Angelis, will not be in Indianapolis this weekend.

Scot Racing won last year’s last 250cc championship fielding Hiroshi Aoyama, but has been struggling with financial difficulties all this season and even switched from their prototype GP210 Force to a Suter bike at the Brno Moto2 GP after chassis supplier Rapid Inside NCS dropped their collaboration with Cirano Mularoni’s Moto2 squad.

Here’s RSM Team Scot’s very brief press release with no mention if the team will be at their home race at Misano.

“The RSM Team Scot is undergoing a complex transformation process, both on the technical side - a new bike - and management. It has been decided not to take part into the Indianapolis GP, to concentrate on the solution of the problems”.

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Moto2 wildcards Roger Lee Hayden and Jason DiSalvo and Jack & Jones by A. Banderas Moto2 regular rider Kenny Noyes were at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway testing last Thursday and Friday preparing for the Red Bull Indianapolis GP that takes place next weekend.

This was Hayden’s third test on the American Honda Moto2 team’s Moriwaki MD600 after the Chuckwalla Valley Raceway and the Barber Motorsports tests, while Di Salvo, who after a partial season with the ParkinGo Triumph BE1 team in World Supersport championship was called in to wildcard just ten days ago, and is backed by GP Tech in Moto2 and using the FTR M210 owned by the Canadian FOGI Racing Team operation.

Noyes used a Kawasaki ZX-6R, due to the FIM rules that prevent contracted riders from testing on their race bikes outside of official series tests, unless they want to be fined and banned from the first free practice like Toni Elias at Brno.

Continue reading: Hayden, Di Salvo and Noyes on Moto2 Indy test (w/video)

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A couple of days back American Honda had announced that it would field a Moto2 wild card at the 2010 Red Bull Indianapolis GP (August 29th), using the Moriwaki Engineering MD600 for their entry and today they’ve confirmed that their rider will be Roger Lee Hayden.

The team will be run by Erion Honda and managed by the legendary Kevin Schwantz and Hayden who currently races in the World Superbikes championship on a Kawasaki for Team Pedercini, will get a chance to test and race the popular Moriwaki Moto2 bike during the five week summer break in the WSBK calendar.

Source | cyclenews.com

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