VOL. 50 ISSUE 24 JUNE 18, 2013
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Briefly...
in Team Pramac colors. Factory
riders Nicky Hayden and Andrea
Dovizioso were left underwhelmed
by their tests of the lab bike, which
improved some areas but was not
the radical step needed.
Mahindra is setting out its stall, after approaches from several teams
interesting in running the all-new
Suter-built MGP3O next season.
Regulations require that entrants
must be prepared to supply up to
15 riders per season. "It is quite
an exciting team, with approaches from a number of teams," said
Mahindra Racing CEO Mufaddal
Choonia. "We have the infrastructure in place to supply, and we
would be very proud to see more
MGP3O machines on the grid."
wasaki. Del Amor had been
merely visiting the pits, having
retired from national competition last year, when he was
roped in to replace injured Hiro
Aoyama, and earned a point for
his trouble.
Lorenzo's second win in a
row closed him to within seven
of leader Pedrosa, who has 123
points to his 116. Marquez is still
in touch on 93; Crutchlow is still
fourth in spite of a no score, but
his 71 is coming within range of
Rossi on 60. Dovizioso drops
to sixth with 59 points.
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Lorenzo celebrates with Anna
Vives, the woman who designed
the paint scheme of his helmet for
the race.
MotoGP
1. Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha)
2. Dani Pedrosa (Honda)
3. Marc Marquez (Honda)
4. Valentino Rossi (Yamaha)
5. Stefan Bradl (Honda)
6. Bradley Smith (Yamaha)
7. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati)
8. Aleix Espargaro (ART)
9. Colin Edwards (FTR Kawasaki)
10. Michele Pirro (Ducati)
Jonas Folger missed the race and
spoiled his Moto3 title chances
after badly spraining his hand in
a motocross training accident the
day after the Mugello GP. He was
still unable to ride at Catalunya, but
was striving to be fit for Assen. The
Team Aspar rider is a regular frontrunner on the KTM Kalex.
Cancellation of the maximum age
limit for Moto2 wild cards was
among a handful of minor fiddles
that came out of a GP Commission meeting at Catalunya. Previously the limit was 28. Other minor changes included a shuffle of
wet tire allocation rules giving riders more freedom to change their
choices, and the ending of stationery flag signals - from now on all
flags will be waved. Not much on
the agenda, then.
