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ROUND 10/AUGUST 18, 2013 INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY/INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA MOTOGP P54 MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Hayden recovered first, but by the time they got to the line Smith had already gotten there - .001 of a second earlier. It makes great video comedy – especially since it's a repeat of a similar scene at Assen with the same three riders and the same result: Smith stealing the place. Still hurting from his injuries, Andrea Iannone dropped away to a lone 11th; Aleix Espargaro was also injured after a qualifying crash, but still top CRT bike, a couple of seconds clear of an on-form Colin Edwards and the THE YOUNG REPORT NGM Mobile FTR Kawasaki. His teammate Claudio Corti was another six seconds away; a similar distance behind Hiro Aoyama came through to defeat teammate Hector Barbera and Danilo Petrucci in a late battle for the last points. Misfortunate wild card Blake Young suffered an engine blowup in morning warm-up, and then crashed his Attack Performance Kawasaki on the first lap. Marquez returns to Europe with 188 points to Pedrosa's 167; Lorenzo has 153. Rossi moved three points clear of Crutchlow for fourth, 130-127. CN MotoGP 1. Marc Marquez (Honda) 2. Dani Pedrosa (Honda) 3. Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) 4. Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) 5. Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha) 6. Alvaro Bautista (Honda) 7. Stefan Bradl (Honda) 8. Bradley Smith (Yamaha) 9. Nicky Hayden (Ducati) 10. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) It was a tough weekend and got a slot and everybody for Blake Young in his third just started checking up for and final MotoGP wild card turn two. I was just left with appearance of 2013. Young nowhere to go. was the slowest qualifier on "I took to the inside of the the grid, turning a time of curb, which was fine, but as 1:44.472 on the Attack Persoon as I got off the curbing formance Racing Kawasakiand just touched the gas, I powered CRT machine. was in the dirty part of the Nothing seemed to go right track and got spat off the top for Young and Attack. Much side of the bike pretty hard." of the weekend the team After the race Young sat in chased handling issues with his motorhome replaying the Blake Young crashed out of the the motorcycle, with Young reporting MotoGP on the opening lap after start of the race in his mind over and the bike was feeling resistant to turning another difficult wild-card ride over again. for the Wisconsinite. in and then suddenly falling over all at "In my mind I'm just thinking what once in corner transitions. Just as they I could have done differently," a worked out those problems, the APR discouraged-looking Young said. "It's blew a hole in a piston, requiring an engine swap. just one of those racing incidents where I shuffled off Young's Indy MotoGP lasted exactly two turns. He there at the start and had nowhere to go. I hate it for got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and the team. Those guys work really, really hard and I got pinched off on the inside of turn two, running over wish I could get them a good result to get them going, the curbing and then getting flicked off when he tried but it was just another tough race for us." to throttle up. In the end the record wasn't pretty. In the three "I was running on the outside of turn one and was American rounds Young and Attack scored a 21st in following Colin [Edwards]," Young said. "I just rememin Austin, a crash and non-start at Laguna Seca and ber when we made the transition over to go through another crash and DNF at Indy. turn two Colin sort of forced his way over to the inside Larry Lawrence