MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 2 / APRIL 10, 2017
TERMAS DE RIO HONDO / SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
P70
In the early stages Danilo Pe-
trucci (Pramac Ducati) held the
position, successfully defending
against several attacks by Dani
Pedrosa (Repsol Honda). After
some seven laps Johann Zarco
(Monster Yamaha) had joined
from behind by Aleix Espargaro's
Aprilia, who was also moving
through the field. Once again,
Dovi was an innocent victim, as
here and in Texas last year.
The battle for fourth was ab-
sorbing.
gained excitement, there were a
couple of new heroes, and some
high-profile victims.
First of these was Jorge Lo-
renzo, who had qualified a lowly
16th, but had gained confidence
over the weekend, and gained
some places in the run to the
first corner, only to run into the
back of Andrea Iannone's Suzuki
and crash out directly.
His factory Ducati teammate
Andrea Dovizioso had qualified
13th, but survived until lap 15,
when he was working on getting
through a big group disputing
fourth, only to be clobbered
(Above) The Red Bull KTMs took
their first-ever MotoGP points in 14th
for Pol Espargaro (44) and 15th for
Bradley Smith. (Right) Not again!
Dovi was once more the victim of
someone else's crash.
