MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 4 / MAY 3-5, 2019
CIRCUITO DE JEREZ / JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, SPAIN
P94
Canet took over a narrow
points lead, with 58 points to An-
tonelli's 57; then Masia (45), Toba
(41) and Dalla Porta (40). CN
MotoGP
1. Marc Marquez (Hon)
2. Alex Rins (Suz)
3. Maverick Vinales (Yam)
4. Andrea Dovizioso (Duc)
5. Danilo Petrucci (Duc)
Moto2
1. Lorenzo Baldassarri (Kal)
2. Jorge Navaro (SU)
3. Augusto Fernandez (Kal)
4. Thomas Luthi (Kal)
5. Brad Binder (KTM)
Moto3
1. Niccolo Antonelli (Hon)
2. Tatsuki Suzuki (Hon)
3. Celestino Vietti (KTM)
4. Aron Canet (KTM)
5. Albert Arenas (KTM)
(Honda) crashed out at the end of
lap one and Jaume Masia (KTM)
at the start of lap two. Marcos
Ramirez (Honda) survived a
dramatic tumble after a collision
at top speed while going for the
lead; Romano Fenati (Honda) was
pushed off and out after briefly
leading; Raul Fernandez (KTM)
and Sergio Garcia (Honda) also
fell together from the front group.
COTA winner Aron Canet
(Sterilgarda KTM) secured fourth
inches ahead of Albert Arenas
(Sama KTM), in a strong return
after sitting out two races due
to injury. He came through from
15th. Kaito Toba (Honda Team
Asia), Jakub Kornfeil (KTM), pole
starter and occasional leader
Lorenzo Dalla Porta (Honda), Ai
Ogura (Honda) and Andrea Mi-
gno (KTM) to completed a hectic
top 10.
Marco Simoncelli won his first-
ever race back in 2004.
The SIC58 team is named after
the late Italian rider, and the result
by far the team's best ever—An-
tonelli's first win since the start of
2016, and Suzuki's first podium.
The result came by inches after
a 22-lap brawl, with third-placed
Celestino Vietti (SKY VR46 KTM)
taking a second podium in only
his eighth GP just six hundredths
adrift.
There were wildly changing
fortunes in a lead group that was
more than 15-strong for much of
the race, with the lead swapped
back and forth sometimes several
times a lap.
Inevitably there were several
dramatic mishaps and colli-
sions, with several riders lucky
to escape without serious injury.
Fancied runners Gabriel Rodrigo
Niccolo Antonelli
(23) and Tatsuki
Suzuki (24) gave the
SIC58 team their first
one-two at the same
track the late Marco
Simoncelli (son to
SIC58 team owner
Paulo) took his first-
ever GP win.
