Results from the 2010 MotoGP round at Aragon in Spain.
MotoGP Aragon Spain 2010
Casey Stoner answered his critics with an emphatic victory at Aragon, after a morning warm up crash. Stoner led almost start to finish, to record his, and Ducati’s first win for 2010. Doubling Ducati’s joy was Nicky Hayden’s first podium finish for the season in 3rd. Dani Pedrosa split the Ducati pair in 2nd after looking like he might have had the speed for the win.
Fiat Yamaha had a disappointing weekend by their standards, with Lorenzo knocked off the podium by Hayden on the last lap leaving him in 4th, and his first finish off the podium. Rossi finishied in 6th. Ben Spies nailed 5th, after a tooth and nail fight with Honda’s Dovizioso, ending with the Honda in the gravel trap with only a few corners to go.
Lorenzo maintains a 56 point lead over Pedrosa, with Stoner in 3rd place well back.
1 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Team Ducati
2 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda
3 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati
4 Jorge LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha
5 Ben SPIES USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha
6 Valentino ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha
7 Marco SIMONCELLI ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda
8 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki
9 Marco MELANDRI ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda
10 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Pramac Racing Team Ducati
11 Hector BARBERA SPA Paginas Amarillas Aspar Ducati
12 Colin EDWARDS USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha
13 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Interwetten Honda MotoGP Honda
14 Mika KALLIO FIN Pramac Racing Team Ducati
Moto2 Andrea Iannone took the win, leading start to finish, opening up a huge gap to second and third place finishers Julian Simon and Gabor Talmacsi.
Points leader Toni Elias was lucky not to get caught up in a first corner melee which saw 5 riders go down. Elias rode back from 14th place, all the way up to 4th, and given one more lap would possibly have made the podium. Elias holds a commanding 76 point lead in the championship, with one hand now on the trophy.
1 Andrea IANNONE ITA Fimmco Speed Up Speed Up 157.8 40’33.264
2 Julian SIMON SPA Mapfre Aspar Team Suter
3 Gabor TALMACSI HUN Fimmco Speed Up Speed Up
4 Toni ELIAS SPA Gresini Racing Moto2 Moriwaki
5 Simone CORSI ITA JIR Moto2 Motobi
6 Jules CLUZEL FRA Forward Racing Suter
7 Dominique AEGERTER SWI Technomag-CIP Suter
8 Scott REDDING GBR Marc VDS Racing Team Suter
9 Stefan BRADL GER Viessmann Kiefer Racing Suter
10 Thomas LUTHI SWI Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2 Moriwaki
11 Claudio CORTI ITA Forward Racing Suter
12 Yuki TAKAHASHI JPN Tech 3 Racing Tech 3
13 Mike DI MEGLIO FRA Mapfre Aspar Team Suter
14 Michele PIRRO ITA Gresini Racing Moto2 Moriwaki
15 Ratthapark WILAIROT THA Thai Honda PTT Singha SAG Bimota
21 Anthony WEST AUS MZ Racing Team MZ-RE Honda
125cc. The fight for the 2010 125cc championship tightened up considerably after points leader Marc Marquez was taken out in a first corner crash. After a race long battle Pol Espargaro took a narrow victory over fellow Spaniard Nicolas Terol with a stunning “round the outside” last lap move.
Terol now leads the championship by 6 points over Espargaro on 202, with Marquez dropping to 3rd on 197.
1 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Tuenti Racing Derbi
2 Nicolas TEROL SPA Bancaja Aspar Team Aprilia
3 Bradley SMITH GBR Bancaja Aspar Team Aprilia
4 Efren VAZQUEZ SPA Tuenti Racing Derbi
5 Sandro CORTESE GER Avant Mitsubishi Ajo Derbi
6 Tomoyoshi KOYAMA JPN Racing Team Germany Aprilia
7 Esteve RABAT SPA Blusens-STX Aprilia
8 Jonas FOLGER GER Ongetta Team Aprilia
9 Danny WEBB GBR Andalucia Cajasol Aprilia
10 Luis SALOM SPA Stipa-Molenaar Racing GP Aprilia
11 Adrian MARTIN SPA Aeroport de Castello – Ajo Aprilia
12 Johann ZARCO FRA WTR San Marino Team Aprilia
13 Marcel SCHROTTER GER Interwetten Honda 125 Honda
14 Jakub KORNFEIL CZE Racing Team Germany Aprilia
15 Sturla FAGERHAUG NOR AirAsia – Sepang Int. Circuit Aprilia