MotoGP rd.8 eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland /Toni Elias took his 3rd win of the season!
Toni Elias was the fastest qualifier among MD600,started the race from 3rd in the grid. Yannick Guerra from Holiday Gym G22 team had returned and all 7 MD600s were at the starting grid.
The rain stopped by the time of Moto2 race though the track wasn’t completely dry. The mercury went just 19C and the track temp was 26C.
Right after the start of the race, a multiple number of riders involved a crash at the turn1 and unfortunately one of MD600 riders, Lukas Pesek could not escape it and retired the race.
Toni Elias started from 3rd position but soon lost his position to 11th at lap1. Fonsi Nieto was in 15th and Xavier Simeon was 16th. Elias started gaining back his position from lap2 and recovered all the way to 3rd position by lap8. Nieto was also gaining his position, gradually moving up.
Thomas Luthi wasn’t his usual position through this weekend and he collided with a rider in front and crashed. It seemed did not harm his concerned left shoulder but he had to retire the race at 20laps remaining.
As the race was progressing, Elias was challenging to top 2 riders fiercely and passed the 2nd rider, 12 laps to go. It took him another 6 laps to finally reach the top rider and passed him at the turn 1.
Then afterwards he just kept his pace and won the race by more than 3seconds lead.
While Elias was getting rather comfortable win, Nieto was battling to get 3rd position through the last 4 laps but just missed the podium.
Finally the moment came to Vladimir Ivanov who finished in 14th. His first ever points in the championship. Simeon was just behind Ivanov, also gained a championship point. The returning rider, Guerra finished the race in 26th.
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Toni Elias (quoting from post race interview from MotoGP official website)
“I think the most important thing was yesterday’s last 50 minutes, we found something better. Today we went one step directly to the race without having test. And just first lap out of pit, I felt it was much better than yesterday.
And the problem was that I did the very bad start. At the beginning I lost a lot of time with all the riders, everybody tried to pass me but after 2 to 3 laps, I gained my rhythm and I did may overtakes and finally reached leading riders. I passed the leader quickly, tried to make distance. Until the moment I caught up with them, it was hard and very difficult but after I passed them, I got my rhythm and I think it was so easy to get away. I’m vey happy because this is very important for the championship. We have more advantage now. Especially my team is working really hard and they never give up so we have this situation now. I’d like to say thank you to all of them, and also to my family and friends because they helped me a lot this week."
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Toni Elias extended his championship lead and Thomas Luthi kept runner up position though he could not gain any points this weekend.
For the Constructor Championship, MORIWAKI is now having more lead to the next one.
Thank you for your continuous support to MORIWAKI.
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MD600 race results:
-- 1st: No.24 Toni Elias, Gresini Racing Moto2 (QP 3rd)
-- 4th: No.10 Fonsi Nieto, Holiday Gym G22 (QP 17th)
--14th: No.61 Vladimir Ivanov, Gresini Racing Moto2 (QP 28th)
--15th: No.19 Xavier Simeon, Holiday Gym G22 (QP 25th)
--26th: No. 88 Yannick Guerra, Holiday Gym G22 (QP 41st)
Not Classifide
-- No.12 Thomas Luthi, Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2 (QP 21st)
Not finished first lap
--No.52 Lukas Pesek, Matteoni CP Racing (QP 33rd)
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World Championship Classification
- CONSTRUCTOR CHAMPIONSHIP: MORIWAKI MD600 1st
- RIDER POINT RANKING
1st / No.24 Toni Elias / 136point
2nd / No.12 Thomas Luthi / 94point
11th / No.10 Fonsi Nieto / 38point
27th / No.19 Xavier Simeon / 9point
29th / No.52 Lukas Pesek / 4point
30th / No.61 Vladimir Ivanov / 2point
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MotoGP official website: http://www.motogp.com/en/
Result: http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics
MORIWAKI MD600 website: http://www.moriwaki.co.jp/racing/07_01.html
