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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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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

http://www.moriwaki.co.jp/racing/07_h01.html (Japanese only)

For Immediate release! Tatsuya Yamaguchi will participate Moto2 Round 12 San Marino GP!!

It was hurriedly decided that Tatsuya Yamaguchi will participate Moto2 Round 12 San Marino GP from Gresini Racing Moto2.

As the Gresini regular rider Vladimir Ivanov has got injury over the crush at previous race America GP, he is not able to place himself on grid at San Marino GP.

So Yamaguchi is chosen for running at San Marino GP this weekend instead.

He is now on the way to the circuit.

Let’s see how he rides on the MD600!!

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MotoGP Official WEB SITE
http://www.motogp.com/en

http://www.motogp.com/ja/news/2010/yamaguchi+with+gresini+racing+moto2+at+misano

Gresini Racing Moto2 Official WEB SITE
http://www.gresiniracingmoto2.com

Tatsuya Yamaguchi　Official WEB SITE
http://www.t2y.jp/

Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix, / Toni Elias took 3 consecutive win which was his 5th GP wins in the season!

Toni Elias took 3 consecutive win which was his 5th GP wins in the season!

We welcomed a wildcard entry MD600 from American Honda, Roger Lee Hayden joined the Indy GP along side with regular 6 MD600s.

The fastest qualifier among MD600 riders were again Toni Elias, sat on 6th position, second-row start.  Other MD600 riders: Fonsi Nieto 12th, Lukas Pesek 15th, Thomas Luthi 17th, Vladimir Ivanov 25th, Roger Lee Hayden 29th and Yannick Guerra 39th.

Unfortunately, Fonsi Nieto injured during the crash in the Qualify Practice session and had to withdraw from the race.

The race started on Sunday, the August 29th in dry.  The mercury went up to 34C and ground temperature was 52C.  There was a multiple crash involving 8 machines occurred at turn2 right after the race started and red-flagged.  The race was rescheduled to start 30min later but with only 17Laps to complete.

Toni Elias showed superb start from 2nd-row and took a hole shot.  Behind the leading group, Thomas Luthi was in the battle for 4th position.  Elias was taken over but regained the top position at 6laps to go, passing Julian Simon at turn1.  Elias strongly defended the lead and took his 5th and 3 consecutive win.

Thomas Luthi finished in 7th, adding 9points in the championship standing.

MORIWAKI extended the Constructor Championship lead as well as Elias in the riders championship standing.  Luthi managed to keep the 3rd position in the ranking.

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MD600 race results:

-- 1st: No.24 Toni Elias, Gresini Racing Moto2 (QP 6th, 1'46”368)

-- 7th: No.12 Thomas Luthi, Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2 (QP 17th, 1'47”004)

--17th: No.34 Roger Lee Hayden, American Honda (QP 29th, 1’47”390)

--20th: No.52 Lukas Pesek, Matteoni CP Racing (QP 15th, 1'46”959)

--24th: No. 88 Yannick Guerra, Holiday Gym G22 (QP 39th, 1’48”905)

Not Classified

--No.61 Vladimir Ivanov, Gresini Racing Moto2 (QP 25th, 1'47”224)

Not starting

--No.10 Fonsi Nieto, Holiday Gym G22 (QP 12th, 1'46”900)

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World Championship Classification

- CONSTRUCTOR CHAMPIONSHIP: MORIWAKI MD600 1st/211point

- RIDER POINT RANKING

  1st / No.24 Toni Elias / 186point

  3rd / No.12 Thomas Luthi / 108point

12th / No.10 Fonsi Nieto / 41point

27th / No.19　Xavier Simeon / 9point

31st / No.52 Lukas Pesek / 4point

33rd / 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

Gresini Racing Moto2 rider V.Ivanov is introduced

Gresini Racing Moto2 rider V.Ivanov is introduced at MotoGP official website.

Let’s check him out!

 

↓MotoGP Official website

http://www.motogp.com/ja/news/2010/An+introduction+toVladimir+Ivanov

America Honda Moto2 appear.

 

The America Honda participation to Moto2 was appeared by Moto GP official web site.

 

The stars and stripes designed MD600 will run at Indy GP.

The rider is well known “Roger Lee Hayden”

Let’s see how the first American Moto2 team compete at the local Indy GP.

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↓MotoGP Official website

http://www.motogp.com/ja/news/2010/Kevin+Erion+on+American+Honda+Indianapolis+entry

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

MotoGP rd.7 GRAN PREMI APEROL DE CATALUNYA /Thomas Luthi again in second on podium!

Today the race started under the clear sky, atmosphere was 32C and track temp was 46C.

Both 2 front row MD600s started the race good and Luthi took the hole shot and Elias was second to go through the turn 1.  There were a crash at the turn1 behind them and quite number of riders were out.

Fortunately all MD600 riders avoided the crash and Luthi and Elias completed the lap1 in 1st and 2nd.

A few riders past them as the race progresses.  Luthi was in a battle for 2nd and Elias was for 5th.

A ride-through penalty was given to the leader and the rider dropped off at lap7.

Luthi and Elias battled all the way through and Luthi finished in 2nd, consecutive podium finish.  Elias finished in 5th, kept his championship lead, and now Luthi came to the 2nd position on the ranking.

As a constructor, MORIWAKI is keeping the top position on the championship, too.

Next round will be in Germany in 2 weeks.  Thank you for your support to all MD600 riders in the championship.

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MD600 race results:

-- 2nd: No.12 Thomas Luthi, Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2

-- 5th: No.24 Toni Elias, Gresini Racing Moto2

-- 8th: No.10 Fonsi Nieto, Holiday Gym G22

--18th: No.61 Vladimir Ivanov, Gresini Racing Moto2

--24th: No.19 Xavier Simeon, Holiday Gym G22

Not Classifide

--No.52 Lukas Pesek, Matteoni CP Racing

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World Championship Classification

- CONSTRUCTOR CHAMPIONSHIP: MORIWAKI MD600 1st

- RIDER POINT RANKING

  1st / No.24 Toni Elias / 111point

  2nd / No.12 Thomas Luthi / 94point

13th / No.10 Fonsi Nieto / 25point

25th / No.19　Xavier Simeon / 8point

28th / No.52 Lukas Pesek / 4point

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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/global/racing/07_01.html

MotoGP rd.7 GRAN PREMI APEROL DE CATALUNYA Moto2 class Qualifying Practice

The Moto2 class QP session had finished.

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The Qualifying Practice session started in dry and warm condition. The temperature went up to 34C and the track temperature rose to 52C

Thomas Luthi who should be suffering from his broken collar bone, marked 1’47”973 at lap4, came on the top of the timesheet.  His time was overtaken by a couple of riders later and he settled in 3rd which was his best qualifying result in the season so far.

Toni Elias followed Luthi at his home race qualifying, got 4th grid start for tomorrow.  2 MD600s are now line next to each other at front row.

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MD600 results:

-- 3rd: No.12 Thomas Luthi, Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2

  TIME / 1’47”973

-- 4th: No.24 Toni Elias, Gresini Racing Moto2

  TIME / 1’48”089

-- 17th: No.10 Fonsi Nieto, Holiday Gym G22

  TIME / 1’48”563

--24th: No.52 Lukas Pesek, Matteoni CP Racing

  TIME / 1’48”677

--31th: No.61 Vladimir Ivanov, Gresini Racing Moto2

  TIME / 1'49”036

--34th: No.19 Xavier Simeon, Holiday Gym G22

  TIME / 1'49”169

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The race will start 19:15 Japan time.  Thank you very much for your support!!

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MotoGP official website: http://www.motogp.com/en/

Result: http://www.motogp.com/jResults+Statistics

MORIWAKI MD600 website: http://www.moriwaki.co.jp/racing/07_01.html

MotoGP rd.6 TIM TT Assen Dutch Grand Prix Moto2 class / Toni Elias 2nd, Thomas Luthi 3rd. MORIWAKI is top of the Constructor Championship!!!

Since the introduction of Moto2, the class has shown competitive battles.  TT Assen was no exception.  15 riders in a split of a second, it was already predicting another great race after the qualifying practice ended.

3 MD600 riders were in the top 15; Thomas Luthi was in 5th, followed by Toni Elias in 6th and Lukas Pesek in 11th.

The mercury went up to 20C and the track temperature rose to 33C with a help of fine Dutch weather.  The race started in the favored condition.  Great start for MD600 riders, Elias, Luthi and Nieto went into turn 1 in 3rd, 4th and 5th.  At lap2, Elias moved to the 2nd position and battled the position while leaving the 4th and the rest of riders behind.

Later the race, Luthi gradually gaining his position and joined the 3rd-position battle.  At last 5lap, Luthi marked 1’39”414 re-writing the record lap and getting a chance to take 3rd position.  At the last 2laps, finally Tom Luthi became 3rd.  Toni Elias was just in front of Luthi and he had the position since lap14.  The 2 MD600 riders kept their positions all the way to the finish line, Elias 2nd and Luthi 3rd.

Vladimir Ivanov was the only remaining one to complete the race, with 21st position.  Fonsi Nieto, Lukas Pesek and Xavier Simon did not finish the race. Nieto retired at lap6.  Pesek was out at 8laps to go, and Simon was the last one to crashed, just 1 lap short to complete the race.

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Toni Elias, 2nd: “It was a good through the week, stayed in top group all the time.  I started the race good but the gap with Iannone was already growing when I was battling to get 2nd position and I could not reach him.  The second in podium was good for the championship so I’m very happy with the result.  I would like to win again at next round.”

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Thomas Luthi, 3rd: “The start of the race was not easy. I had a good start but could not switch into the gear and lost the connection a little bit because of that. Then Iannon e was already building up a gap behind him. At the end I was able to fight for the podium, but the second place was impossible to reach. I am very happy with my third place though."

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Now, MORIWAKI is back on the top of Constructor Championship.  Toni Elias kept his championship lead and Thomas Luthi is now just 2 points behind the runner up.

Official race report will be issued later.

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MD600 race results:

-- 2nd: No.24 Toni Elias, Gresini Racing Moto2

  GAP / +4.492

-- 3rd: No.12 Thomas Luthi, Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2

  GAP / +5.390

--21st: No.61 Vladimir Ivanov, Gresini Racing Moto2

  GAP / +43.395

Not Classified

-- No.19 Xavier Simeon, Holiday Gym G22

  GAP / 1lap

--No.52 Lukas Pesek, Matteoni CP Racing

  GAP / 8laps

--No.10 Fonsi Nieto, Holiday Gym G22

  GAP / 17laps

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World Championship Classification

- CONSTRUCTOR CHAMPIONSHIP: MORIWAKI MD600 1st

- RIDER POINT RANKING

  1st / No.24 Toni Elias / 100point

  3rd / No.12 Thomas Luthi / 74point

16th / No.10 Fonsi Nieto / 17point

24th / No.19　Xavier Simeon / 8point

27th / No.52 Lukas Pesek / 4point

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Next round of Moto2 Grand Prix is going to be in Spain, Catalunya circuit, on July 2 – 4.

Let’s hope to see another great race by MORIWAKI MD600s!!!

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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

MotoGP rd.6 TIM TT Assen Grand Prix Moto2 class Qualifying Practice

The Moto2 class QP session had finished.

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The Qualifying Practice session started in dry.  The temperature went up to 21C which pushed the track temperature to 28C.

Toni Elias and Thomas Luthi found their pace from earlier in the session and Elias was 2nd and Luthi was 3rd at 25min left.  Just a couple of minutes later, one machine crashed and red-flagged the session.  The session restarted a few minutes later and all MD600 riders completed the session without troubles.

Once again it is very close competition, 15 riders within a second, and 3 MD600s in top 10

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Thomas Luthi is leading MD600 riders with 5th fastest.

MD600 results:

-- 5th: No.12 Thomas Luthi, Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2

TIME / 1’39”671

-- 6th: No.24 Toni Elias, Gresini Racing Moto2

  TIME / 1’39”711

-- 8th: No.10 Fonsi Nieto, Holiday Gym G22

  TIME / 1’39”777

--11th: No.52 Lukas Pesek, Matteoni CP Racing

  TIME / 1’39”856

--29th: No.61 Vladimir Ivanov, Gresini Racing Moto2

  TIME / 1'40”716

--30th: No.19 Xavier Simeon, Holiday Gym G22

  TIME / 1'40”762

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The race will start 19:15 Japan time.  Thank you very much for your support!!

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MotoGP official website: http://www.motogp.com/en/

Result: http://www.motogp.com/jResults+Statistics

MORIWAKI MD600 website: http://www.moriwaki.co.jp/racing/07_01.html