VOL. 50 ISSUE 20 MAY 21, 2013
Salom stayed close to Rins to
the end for third.
Fifth, a long way behind Folger, Alex Marquez eventually
escaped by two seconds from a
race-long challenge from Jakub
Kornfeil.
Vinales extended his points
slid out after four laps.
lead to 13 points over Salom, 90This left five of them, and then 77. Rins has 61 followed by Folfour, as Alex Marquez lost touch ger's 53 and Binder's 32. CN
with the gang.
Jonas Folger led for most of MotoGP
the first eight laps, then Maver- 1. Dani Pedrosa (Honda)
ick Vinales took over, and it was 2. Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha)
for the long-term. Only narrowly, 3. Marc Marquez (Honda)
however, until he escaped in the 4. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati)
final lap.
5. Nicky Hayden (Ducati)
At half distance Alex Rins 6. Alvaro Bautista (Honda)
pushed past Folger into second 7. Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha)
at the end of the straight and 8. Michele Pirro (Ducati)
the German ran on through the 9. Bradley Smith (Yamaha)
escape road, rejoining in fourth, 10. Stefan Bradl (Honda)
behind Luis Salom, but he was in
trouble, losing ground from there
to the end.
(Above) Pedrosa celebrates becoming the first two-time winner in
the 2013 MotoGP season.
(Left) Valentino Rossi (46) holds
off Hayden (69) in their battle.
Rossi would eventually crash and
remount to finish 12th.
first race of the day – Moto3. It
wasn't raining, but the track was
cold and with a lot of damp patches. This being so there were remarkably few crashes, and only
one from the front pack: Miguel
Oliveira had put the Indian Mahindra on the front row and was with
a pack of five KTMs disputing the
early lead when he hit a damp
patch into the fast turn one, and
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