VOL. 50 ISSUE 35 SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
P41
Briefly...
Lorenzo finally beats
Marquez to end the drought
is a little behind in the healing,
having chosen to do without the
screws and scalpels. He finished
third.
His teammate Marc Marquez
caught up with his compatriots at
Silverstone. He crashed in morning warm-up, one of several to fall
victim to cold conditions at the
tricky Vale left-right combination
at the far side of the old/new airfield circuit.
Marc Marquez, frequently admonished and penalized in his 125 and
Moto2 years, is back on the badboy list, hit with a two-point penalty
on top of his dislocated shoulder,
after being adjudged to have ignored yellow and oil flags signaling
that Cal Crutchlow had just fallen
off at the same point. Asked what
he thought about it, he said: "I can't
say very much about it, because
I didn't see the flags." Talk about
adding insult to injury.
Aleix Espargaro is top of the list to
join the NGM Forward Racing team
next year, expected to buy his way
out of his existing contract with the
Aspar team owned by former multichampion Jorge Martinez. The
Spanish elder brother of factory
Yamaha recruit Pol was waiting to
see whether his current ART Aprilia
would be upgraded for next year,
but hopes have faded, and he is set
to move. The Italian squad will campaign a pair of leased Yamaha M1s
– both engine and chassis, while
awaiting their own chassis from
FTR. Current rider Colin Edwards,
the oldest rider on the grid, hopes
to stay on with the team next year.
The British GP's annual Day of
Champions raised a total of
$336,448 for the official MotoGP
charity, short of last year's total
of almost 396,739, which was
boosted by $101,000 contributed
by the British Government. The
auction also marked a growing
shift in fans' loyalty. This year, the
single most expensive item belonged not to Valentino Rossi but to
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