ROUND 6/JUNE 16, 2013
CATALUNYA CIRCUIT/MONTMELO, SPAIN
MOTOGP
P64
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
and Pramac Ducati's Andrea Iannone.
Bradl was left to fend off second Marlboro Ducati rider Andrea
Dovizioso, pushing hard until half
distance before dropping away,
leaving the German safe in fifth,
one down on his Mugello result.
Worse was to come for Dovi,
who blamed "the worst track
for our [rear] pumping problem.
When it's hot it gets worse. The
reality came out in the race; it's
not easy to keep motivation when
the bike doesn't improve."
As his pace dropped, plucky
Briton Bradley Smith - on the second Monster Tech 3 Yamaha picked it up. At half distance he'd
been four seconds adrift; with
three laps to go he was ahead
for a well-earned and career-best
sixth.
Aleix
Espargaro's
eighth
equaled the CRT rider's best yet,
the Power Electronics ART almost a minute off the lead. NGM
Mobile FTR Kawasaki's Colin Edwards had pushed him hard in
his strongest race for more than
a year, still less than five seconds
adrift at the end. Karel Abraham
Colin Edwards had his best
weekend of the year and finished
ninth on his CRT bike.
had been with them in the early
laps, only to retire the Cardion AB
ART with a sick motor.
Michele Pirro put the second
Pramac Ducati (actually the factory "lab bike") through to 10th
after running off in the wake of
Bautista on the first lap, and rejoining in 22nd and last.
Replacement rider Javier Del
Amor was the final points scorer
on the Avintia Blusens FTR Ka-
