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and after five laps the front
tire was already trying to
close."
Dovizioso shot away off
the line, pursued by Mar-
quez, Rossi and flying Mon-
ster Yamaha rider Bradley
Smith. Rossi's teammate
Jorge Lorenzo was con-
signed to fifth, and not quite
one of the party.
On the first lap an over-
ambitious lunge by Galicia
VDS Honda's Scott Redding
took him down, and he took
Monster Yamaha Tech 3's
Pol Espargaro with him. A
few laps later Stefan Bradl
on the Forward Yamaha was
also out, blaming a ram-
ming attack by Jack Miller.
"He shouldn't treat this like
Moto3," he complained.
Up front, Marquez out-
on the Petronas Kalex and Techno-
mag Kalex' Dominique Aegerter all
ahead of him.
Aegerter would crash out, and
Rabat would come through again,
but it wasn't until the closing stages
that he finally managed to shake off
Morbidelli, and by now he was more
than four seconds adrift of Rins and
the rostrum; Syahrin was sixth.
Then came a furious battle for
seventh. It was won by QMMF Speed
Up's Anthony West narrowly ahead of
Italtrans Kalex' Mika Kallio, second
QMMF Speed Up rider Julian Simon,
Idemitsu Kalex' Takaaki Nakagami and
Athina Kalex' Simone Corsi. Seventh
to eleventh was covered by seven
tenths of a second.
Qatar rostrum fin-
isher Thomas Luthi on the
Derendinger Kalex had
a nightmare of electronic
problems in qualifying and
finished lap one 25
th
. By
the end he had fought
through to 12th, bringing
Tech 3's Marcel Schrot-
ter with him past Sandro
Cortese on the Dynavolt
Kalex. The last point went
to Moto3 champion Alex
Marquez on the Galicia VDS Kalex,
handsomely overshadowed by ex-
teammate Rins.
Rins heads Zarco on points, 29 to
28: then non-scorer Folger and Lowes
(25) and Morbidelli (22).
Jorge Lorenzo (99)
had another lack luster
weekend in fourth.
Sam Lowes and crew celebrate his
first Moto2 victory.
