The Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini, MORIWAKI MD600 race result: Toni Elias is the man in the class!

The Moto2 Grand Prix race moved to

San Marino

and Tatsuya Yamaguchi, MORIWAKI Club rider got an invitation to participate the race from Gresini Racing Moto2 as a substitute for wounded Vladimir Ivanov.

Yamaguchi had tried to ride the unfamiliar machine as much as possible to get used to as well as with the circuit.  He closed the gap to session leader to 2.4sec at FP2.

Toni Elias was the only guy crossed the 1min 39sec line at the QP session, got second pole position of the season since the opening round with 1min38.991sec.

Other MD600 riders in qualifying: Thomas Luthi 15th, Xavier Simeon 16th, Tatsuya Yamaguchi 29th, Lukas Pesek 30th and Yannick Guerra 39th.

Today the race started on dry track with 26C air temp and 37C of ground temp.  8 way battle for top was displayed right after the race start and the pole sitter, Elias had to fight through it.  He got on top position at lap7 and started pulling away.  Further down on the track, Luthi was on 13th position, keeping 1min40s sec pace.  He was 4th at lap19 and then 3rd at lap24.

Elias kept his lead until the end and won the 6th GP win of the season.  4 wins in the last 4 races.  Luthi was 3rd on podium.  Once again, 2 MD600 riders got podium finish.  Lukas Pesek finished in 15th, taking 1point.  Xavier Simeon was riding on 7th place at one stage but run off the track at the final lap and had to settle on 19th.

Yamaguchi finished in 25th at his very first Moto2 race, in front of Guerra who finished in 26th.  All MD600 riders completed the race in one piece.

MORIWAKI keeping its lead on the Constructor Championship standing.  Toni Elias extended his lead now to 83point to the runner up.  Luthi stays on 3rd position but only 4points behind Julian Simon.

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MD600 race results:

-- 1st: No.24 Toni Elias, Gresini Racing Moto2 (QP 1st, 1'38”991)

-- 3rd: No.12 Thomas Luthi, Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2 (QP 15th, 1'40”101)

--15th: No.52 Lukas Pesek, Matteoni CP Racing (QP 30th, 1'41”147)

--19th: No.19 Xavier Simeon,

Holiday

Gym G22 (QP 16th, 1’40”153)

--25th: No.99 Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Gresini Racing Moto2 (QP 29th, 1'41”047)

--26th: No. 88 Yannick Guerra,

Holiday

Gym G22 (QP 39th, 1’42”827)

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World Championship Classification

- CONSTRUCTOR CHAMPIONSHIP: MORIWAKI MD600 1st/236point

- RIDER POINT RANKING

  1st / No.24 Toni Elias / 211point

  3rd / No.12 Thomas Luthi / 124point

13th / No.10 Fonsi Nieto / 41point

28th / No.19　Xavier Simeon / 9point

31st / No.52 Lukas Pesek / 5point

35th / No.61 Vladimir Ivanov / 2point

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Result: http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics

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