MOTOGP
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 2 / APRIL 3, 2016
TERMAS DE RÍO HONDO / SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
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dispirited afternoon. An untried
setting on both bikes just hadn't
worked. "I kept telling myself
I just had to get to the finish."
He was just two-tenths ahead
Stefan Bradl brought his April-
ia in a very worthwhile seventh;
second satellite Yamaha rider
Bradley Smith could count him-
self lucky with eighth after a very
Smith (38) had a shocking race
and was lucky to take eighth.
Marquez slipped and fell over on
the podium. Rossi was to his right
and didn't even blink.
no answer to Scott Redding's
Pramac Ducati, until the Briton
sputtered to a stop by the guard-
rail with five laps to go.
He was third, almost half a
minute behind his victorious
teammate. "This was one of
my luckiest races—but I am not
happy about the pace. We need
to work a lot," he said.
The attrition brought great
rewards to those who had man-
aged to survive, with fourth for
Eugene Laverty, by far his career
best, and a strong ride to boot.
He'd come through on the last
lap to win a long and close fight
with Hector Barbera, whose Avin-
tia Ducati is a later model than the
Irishman's Aspar GP14.2, the pair
just fending off Pol Espargaro's
Monster Yamaha.
