MOTOGP
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 7/JUNE 14, 2015
CIRCUIT OF CATALUNYA/BARCELONA, SPAIN
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>>FOURTH FOR KENT
A lap-scorer's nightmare; a tacti-
cian's playground. And an astonish-
ingly mature fourth win of the year
for Leopard Honda rider Danny Kent;
who was able to parlay his remarkable
speed into a win that was as decisive
as it was narrow: 0.035 of a second
over pole man Enea Bastianini on the
Gresini Honda.
It was a strategic triumph. Kent
had started the first lap at the back
of sextet; drafting past into second at
the first corner, taking the lead three
corners later, and holding it all the way
round the rest of a lap that must have
seemed thousands of miles long.
It was almost a Honda lock-out for
the first six, all across the line within
less than a second; with Kent's team-
mate Efren Vazquez third; Ongetta
Honda's Niccolo Antonelli fourth and
E-G Honda's Jorge Navarro sixth.
Only erstwhile leader Miguel Oliveira
on the Red Bull KTM spoiled it, in
fifth.
All but Navarro had led at least
once over the line, but positions were
notional until the flag.
Red Bull KTM's Brad Binder and
Schedl KTM's Philipp Oettl had
dropped out of the group to fall into a
fierce four-strong battle for seventh.
It went to Husqvarna's Isaac Vina-
les from VR46 Sky KTM's Romano
Fenati, with Binder and Oettl out of
touch at the end.
Another huge group, at one stage
a dozen strong, but depleted by a
number of crashes, fought over the
last points.
A career-best eleventh went to
rookie Mapfre Mahindra's Jorge
Martin, with teammate Pecco Bagnaia
tumbling out of 12th in the last cor-
ners. It went to Gresini Honda's An-
drea Locatelli, from RBA KTM's Niklas
Ajo, E-G Honda's Fabio Quartararo
and a well on-form Maria Herrera on
