Catalunya MotoGP: Bradl wins Moto2 race from pole

German Stefan Bradl has won an incident-packed Moto2 race at Ctalunya after starting from pole position.

Stefan Bradl was unable to pull away from the res of the pack early on, but a crash from Thomas Luthi which also collected Yuki Takahashi saw the field open up a little. Bradley Smith was lucky to stay on the bike during the incident, but lost a few places.

Bradl started to pull away from second place Julian Simon and Kenan Sofuoglu, and with seven laps to go, Sofuoglu tried to go up the inside of Julian Simon.

Sofuoglu couldn’t get his bike stopped in time and hit the back wheel of Simon, sending the second place man cartwheeling into the air. Sofuoglu’s bike then clipped the tumbling Simon, also sending the Turk into the gravel. Both riders walked away.

With most of the pack throwing their bikes into the gravel 125GP champion Marc Marquez was able to quietly make his way to the front to eventually finish second.

Local rider Aleix Espagaro finished third to record his first ever GP podium.

Smith was battling for fifth place on the final lap, but while attempting to outbrake Esteve Rabat lost control of his Tech 3 machine and ran straight on and into the gravel. Smith was able to rejoin the race to finish 19th. Fellow Brit Scott Redding finished 11th.

 

1 25 65 Stefan BRADL GER Viessmann Kiefer Racing Kalex 156.6 41’38.888
2 20 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol Suter 156.4 +4.141
3 16 40 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Pons HP 40 Pons Kalex 156.1 +8.409
4 13 3 Simone CORSI ITA Ioda Racing Project FTR 156.0 +10.331
5 11 4 Randy KRUMMENACHER SWI GP Team Switzerland Kiefer Racing Kalex 155.9 +11.661
6 10 15 Alex DE ANGELIS RSM JIR Moto2 Motobi 155.9 +12.383
7 9 34 Esteve RABAT SPA Blusens-STX FTR 155.8 +12.602
8 8 36 Mika KALLIO FIN Marc VDS Racing Team Suter 155.8 +13.467
9 7 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Blusens-STX FTR 155.6 +16.612
10 6 76 Max NEUKIRCHNER GER MZ Racing Team MZ-RE Honda 155.6 +16.735
11 5 45 Scott REDDING GBR Marc VDS Racing Team Suter 155.6 +17.031
12 4 51 Michele PIRRO ITA Gresini Racing Moto2 Moriwaki 155.5 +18.460
13 3 25 Alex BALDOLINI ITA NGM Forward Racing Suter 155.2 +22.933
14 2 19 Xavier SIMEON BEL Tech 3 B Tech 3 155.2 +23.416
15 1 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Speed Master Suter 155.2 +23.449
16 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA HP Tuenti Speed Up FTR 155.1 +24.070
17 71 Claudio CORTI ITA Italtrans Racing Team Suter 155.1 +24.111
18 31 Carmelo MORALES SPA Desguaces La Torre G22 Moriwaki 155.1 +25.351
19 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Tech 3 Racing Tech 3 154.8 +29.249
20 53 Valentin DEBISE FRA Speed Up FTR 154.5 +35.077
21 64 Santiago HERNANDEZ COL SAG Team FTR 154.1 +41.666
22 13 Anthony WEST AUS MZ Racing Team MZ-RE Honda 153.4 +52.103
23 16 Jules CLUZEL FRA NGM Forward Racing Suter 152.8 +1’02.492
24 49 Kev COGHLAN GBR Aeroport de Castello FTR 152.0 +1’16.294