Yesterday’s Moto2 race at Jerez was red flagged after just two laps when Shoya Tomizawa crashed out after battling it out Simone Corsi fighting for the lead. The rider pile-up was caused by Tomizawa’s bike having an unprotected crank case which caused oil to spill across the Dry Sack corner.

“I crashed after the back straight and my oil was on the road, and many riders crashed,” said Tomizawa. “I’m so sorry for the delay, and also because many riders crashed and they had to repair their motorbikes. I’m so sorry.”

Franco Uncini, Dorna’s safey delegate talking to Italia 1 after the incident declared that the Safety Commission will probably probabily render crank case carbon fiber covers mandatory.

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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.

Continue reading: Moto2 Jerez: Elias Takes his First Win in Moto2

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After the first day of Moto2 testing at Montmelò that was virtually a washout due to bad weather, today it was sunny and cold, and full of spills.

The morning session saw several riders fall including Roberto Rolfo who dislocated his left shoulder and was shipped off to the Dexeus Clinic where it was put back into place and received a prognosis of 4 weeks, which will cut his testing short and he could also miss the upcoming tests in Valencia.

Alex Debon also crashed and may have fractured his left collarbone and Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar), Thomas Luthi (Interwetten Moriwaki Racing), Fonsi Nieto (G22 HolidayGym), Raffaele De Rosa (Tech3) also went through crashes, but fortunately with no serious consequences.

It was Shoya Tomizawa (Technomag-CIP ) who set the fastest lap of the day, posting a best time of 1’49.4 followed by Jules Cluzel (Forward Racing) and Yonny Hérnandez (Blusens-STX), who both posted a 1’49.6.

Continue reading: Moto2: Shoya Tomizawa on Top at Montmelò

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Ducati isn’t the only team that used the mountains as a background to launch their 2010 racing campaign. Moto 2 team Technomag-CIP were in the Swiss Alps with minus 10°C to present their team and unveil the official livery of their Suter MMX bikes that they will be using to contest in this year’s Moto2 Championship.

The team owned by Alain Bronec, will run Swiss rider Dominique Aegerter and Japan’s Shoya Tomizawa and will be present for the Moto2 tests in Barcelona from February 15th to 17th.

Source | technomag-cipmoto2

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Another Moto2 team has confirmed their riders, Shoya Tomizawa and Dominique Aegerter have both signed up to ride with French Technomag-CIP team run by Alain Bronec.

Tomizawa raced this year on a Honda with team CIP –GP 250 team finishing 17th in the final standings, while Aegerter was with Ajo Interwetten in the 125cc series and was 13th. The nineteen year old Swiss rider has decided to move up to the new series because of his height and weight that are judged ‘big’ for the 125 class.

The Technomag CIP team alongside Italtrans STR (Roberto Rolfo and Robertino Pietri), Hayate (Ricky Carduz) and Kiefer Racing will all be using the Suter chassis on their Moto2’s.

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