MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 12 / SEPTEMBER 7-9, 2018
MISANO WORLD CIRCUIT MARCO SIMONCELLI / RIMINI, SAN MARINO
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him from third overall to sixth.
And Romano Fenati was
disqualified after a shocking inci-
dent where he grabbed Stefano
Manzi's front brake (see Briefly).
Bagnaia has 214 points to
Oliveira's 206. The rest are
disputing third: Binder (119), Bal-
dassarri (116), Mir (114), Marquez
(113) and Schrotter (107).
Moto3
The championship took another
twist in a crash-hit Moto3 race,
and the beneficiary was Brno
injury victim Jorge Martin. The
Del Conca Gresini Honda rider
finished a whisker-close second,
after twice narrowly escaping
involvement in other riders' indis-
cretions.
Martin was 0.058 of a second
high as fifth, but was also penal-
ized, and dropped back to an
eventual ninth. Xavi Vierge (Dy-
navolt Kalex) overcame his pain
from injury in Austria to round
out the top 10.
Simone Corsi (Tasca Kalex)
was 11th, escaping from the next
group, which was led by Remy
Gardner's Tech3 from Aegerter
(KTM) and Locatelli (Kalex), with
SAG Kalex substitute rider Jesko
Raffin taking the last point after
starting from the back of the
grid.
American Joe Roberts (NTS)
was 16th.
Alex Marquez (ED-VDS Kalex)
had a third non-finish in a row
after he was taken down on the
first lap by fellow-Spaniard Au-
gusto Fernandez. This dropped
onds adrift of Bagnaia, and he
had to settle for second.
"I felt our pace was really
even; he was a couple of tenths
faster some laps. The first laps
really cost me, but we minimized
the damage, and we're on the
podium again."
Schrotter had followed him
past Pasini, and closed at the
finish for that vain lunge. He was
still delighted with a long-awaited
first podium after 151 starts.
Behind Pasini and Mir, Lo-
renzo Baldassarri (Pons HP40
Kalex) had come through from
11th on lap one to take sixth, at
the end comfortably clear of Fa-
bio Quartararo (Speed Up) and
Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM).
Jorge Navarro (Federal Oils
Kalex) had a strong ride to as
Francesco Bagnaia
was on another level
in Moto2 and took a
commanding victory.
