Monday, October 29, 2012

Phillip Island MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo champion, Casey Stoner dominates

Jorge Lorenzo secured his second MotoGP world championship with second place behind runaway winner Casey assailant within the Australian auto race.

The title battle was effectively settled on lap 2, once Lorenzo's remaining championship rival Dani Pedrosa crashed out of the lead.

Polesitter assailant had fallen from initial to 3rd off the road, as Lorenzo's Yamaha burst to the front.

Determined to push for a fourth consecutive race win to undertake and shut down Lorenzo's 23-point advantage, Pedrosa thrust his Honda into the lead at the pin on the gap lap.

Lorenzo then lost bent on Stoner's sister Honda on the pits straight.

Given that assailant had dominated the complete weekend up to now, and with Honda not expected to impose team orders, it appeared solely a matter of your time before Pedrosa relinquished the lead.

Pushing onerous to undertake and keep ahead, Pedrosa then lost his Honda's forepart and crashed once carrying an excessive amount of speed into the pin on the second lap.

He picked his bike up and trundled desolately back to the pits.

There was now not a need for Lorenzo to even try to chase assailant - United Nations agency was clearly in another league anyway.

In his penultimate MotoGP begin before retiring, assailant was ready to secure his sixth consecutive home ending by a snug margin, as Lorenzo simply took the second place he needed.

Cal Crutchlow created associate degree early break from the pack behind to secure a lonely third.

His school three Yamaha team-mate Andrea Dovizioso had to fight a lot of more durable for fourth, solely defeating Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl once an enormous race-long dice.

Valentino Rossi semiconductor diode the noncompetitive Ducatis direct seventh.

Aleix Espargaro terribly narrowly beat Aspar team-mate sexy Delaware Puniet to high gas-discharge tube honours in tenth place.


Results - 27 laps:

Pos  Rider             Team/Bike                Time/Gap
 1.  Casey Stoner      Honda                  41m01.324s
 2.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                   + 9.223s
 3.  Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha           + 14.570s
 4.  Andrea Dovizioso  Tech 3 Yamaha           + 23.303s
 5.  Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda           + 23.432s
 6.  Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda               + 23.467s
 7.  Valentino Rossi   Ducati                  + 37.113s
 8.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati                  + 38.387s
 9.  Karel Abraham     Cardion Ducati          + 52.613s
10.  Aleix Espargaro   Aspar Aprilia         + 1m00.299s
11.  Randy de Puniet   Aspar Aprilia         + 1m00.342s
12.  Hector Barbera    Pramac Ducati         + 1m21.951s
13.  Danilo Petrucci   Ioda Suter-BMW        + 1m27.857s
14.  Michele Pirro     Gresini FTR-Honda         + 1 lap
15.  Ivan Silva        Avintia BQR-Kawasaki      + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Roberto Rolfo     Speed Master Aprilia      18 laps
     Colin Edwards     Forward Suter-BMW          6 laps
     James Ellison     Paul Bird Aprilia          5 laps
     Dani Pedrosa      Honda                       1 lap

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