ROUND 14/SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
MOTORLAND ARAGON/ALCANIZ, SPAIN
MOTOGP
TEROL TIME
P66
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
drama up close, as Espargaro
finally put together a serious
Austin Moto2 GP winner
attack on his title rival. Redding
Nico Terol leapt out of the
defended vigorously, leaving tire
shadows with his first pole in
marks on the Spaniard's leaththe class on the Aspar Suter
ers, but could do nothing to
bike, and did much the same in
regain third place, crossing the
the race. The last-ever 125cc
line a quarter of a second adrift,
World Champion galloped away
with Kallio a similar distance
with the race from the first lap
behind.
and was all but five seconds
German GP winner Jordi
clear by half distance, and able
Torres was some way back in
to cruise the rest of the way to
sixth in a surprisingly spread out
Nico Terol led the Moto2 race
win by 1.7 seconds.
race, with Zarco and Julian Simon equally
from start to finish.
He missed all the fun.
lonely behind him.
So did Takaaki Nakagami. He was
The next battle was for ninth, won on the last lap by
second by lap three, only to run off and drop all the way
Mattia after his teammate Alex de Angelis crashed on the
down to 24th.
final lap. Sandro Cortese, Nakagami and Marcel SchrotThis left Tuenti Kalex teammates Esteve Rabat and
ter were close behind, the group covered by just over
Pol Espargaro locked in combat with title leader Scott
two seconds; while Dominique Aegerter had dropped
Redding. The Englishman had qualified 13th but, in feisty
out of the gang for a lone 13th. The last points went to
form, had come charging through to join the Spaniards.
Alex Marinelarena and Danny Kent.
There was plenty of rough stuff between them, but as
The title fight is getting as tasty as the on-track action
the race wore on Rabat escaped ahead for a safe secbetween the Briton and the Spaniard. Redding has 215
ond place, leaving Redding third, Espargaro a little way
points, Espargaro 195; while Rabat is closing but only
back, then Mika Kallio pushing through to join in.
slowly on 171, Kallio is fourth on 143, then comes NakaThe Finn could do little more than watch the final
gami with 130.
