MOTOGP 2011 | SEASON KICKS OFF IN QATAR | SPANISH RIDER NICO TEROL LEADER IN 125CC

Have to be honest, its been a too long a break & waiting for the start of the 2011 MOTOGP season. Tonight the season kicked off in Qatar under lights with mixed results for Spanish riders , but with an overall positive taste as we race through the summary of all catagories.

Jorge Lorenzo Qatar 2011: courtesy of motogp.com

The GP catagory saw Australian & new Honda rider Casey Stoner fly pass the checker flag to win & become the first GP classification leader for the new season. Honda has managed to "fine - tune" their machines in "lighting bolt" mode & it was a grand effort by second placed & current World Champion JORGE LORENZO to take his Yamaha bike into the silver position with some brilliant & outstanding driving as he was really pleased post-race. Spaniard & Honda rider DANI PEDROSA got in third after he felt some pain in his shouder as Lorenzo flew by him 3/4 of the way. 

Marquez crash: courtesy of rtve

Not so good news for Spanish riders in the MOTO2 catagory with the race finishing in this order: 1st German rider Bradl; 2nd Iannone & 3rd Luthi. The bad news was the spectacular crash from last years Spanish 125cc World Champions Marc Marquez. I have always believed that riders jump catagories too soon in the careers & these things happen. A 125 cc bike has nothing to do with a Moto2 bike as with a GP bike. It takes a lot of adaptation to get under control the new & more powerful bikes. The best placed Spanish rider in this category was Julian Simon in 10th place. 

Spanish 125cc rider Terol

The happy news for Spanish Sports was in the 125cc catagory with NICO TEROL winning ahead of Cortese & another Spaniard Gadea. Terol starts fantastically the season & looks great along with Gadea. The 125 cc has traditionally of late been a Spanish strong hold.

Next race: Spanish GP ( Jerez ) - 3rd of April

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MOTO GP | JORGE LORENZO & MARQUEZ WINNERS IN BRITISH MOTOGP

Spanish riders JORGE LORENZO in GP & MARQUEZ in the 125cc catagory flew the Spanish flag high this afternoon at Silverstone - British GP.

JORGE LORENZO put himself ahead of the race in the first turn passing Spaniard Dani Pedrosa & never looked back. In fact, the race had its exciting "battle" for the 2º & 3º place which eventually went to Dovizioso & third to Ben Spies. Spanish rider Dani Pedrosa had a deceptional day & race finishing 8th.

Jorge Lorenzo opens up a gap with the lead in the current GP World Championships table:
1. Lorenzo 115pts ; Dovizioso 78pts; 3. D.Pedrosa 73 pts.

MOTO2 catagory saw Cluzel win ahead of Luthi with Spaniard SIMÓN coming in third. The current Moto 2 World Championship table has Spanish rider TONI ELIAS first with 80pts , with Japanese rider Tomizawa second with 65 pts foloowed by Luthi with 53 pts

Great race in the 125cc catagory with Spaniard MARQUEZ winning his 2º straight race ahead of another Spaniard ESPARGARÓ who was second with Brit Smith coming in third. Spanish riders dominant the top places of the World Championship classification table:
1. Espargaró 98pts; 2. Terol 98 pts; 3. Marquez 82 pts. Tweet

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MOTO GP - VALENCIA 2009: SPANIARDS DOMINATE

Spanish riders won all three catagories of the MOTOGP Valencia
circuit today & the last for the 2009 season.

(photo: Pedrosa_reuters)























In the Gp catagory, Spaniard PEDROSA won from the start as he pulled
away & opened an unbeatable lead. Italian & 2009 World Champion
Valentino Rossi finished second with Sub-2009 World Champ & Spaniard
LORENZO third. Earlier Casey Stoner fell on the warm-up lap & did not
start.

GP Final World Championship standings:
1.Rossi 306pts; 2. Lorenzo 261pts; 3. Pedrosa 234pts

In the 250cc catagory Spanish rider HECTOR BARBERÁ won ahead of
Spaniard BAUTISTA & Italian De ROSSI. Barberá managed to finish
Sub-2009 World Champion behind AOYAMA who took the 2009 World
Championship title after a scare when he went off the track to
luckily come back in. Italian Simoncelli fell & said goodbye to his
slim chances of beating Aoyama for the title.

250cc Final World Championship standings:
1.Aoyama 261pts; 2.Barberá 239pts; 3.Simoncelli 231pts

(photo: Julian Simon)























In the 125cc catagory Spanish 2009 World Champion JULIAN SIMON
won ahead of the Brit SMITH & Spaniard ESPARGARÓ

125cc Final World Championship standings:
1. Simon 289pts; 2. Smith 223,5pts 3.Terol 179,5pts

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MOTO GP: SAN MARINO 2009 - ROSSI KING AT HOME, SPANIARDS HAPPY

Valentino Rossi won in the GP catagory at San Marino in front of
000s of "home" fans - his town is 15 km away from the racing track
- to open a 30 point lead over Spainard JORGE LORENZO on the
World Championships table. The latter finished 2º with another
Spanish rider DANI PEDROSA coming in 3ºrd & also gaining the 3º
place in the Championship table.

(photo: Jorge Lorenzo/elmundo.es)























In the 250cc catagory Spaniard HECTOR BARBERA finally managed
a win in a close finish with Pasini & Spanish rider ALVARO BAUTISTA
came in third. The latter who is second on the World Championships
table shuts further the points gap to 13 with Aoyama leading.

In the 125 cc catagory Spanish raiders dominated with JULIAN SIMON
the winner,TEROL second & Brit Smith gaining the third place. The
World Championship table is a mirror reflection of todays race finish.

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MOTO GP: CZECH REP - GOOD DAY FOR SPANIARDS EXCEPT FOR LORENZO

Spanish GP rider JORGE LORENZO ( below) may have "kissed" his
chances of the World title after feeling the pressure & falling of his
bike when in front & with Valentino Rossi about to manouver to
overtake. The fall gives the Italian & 8 times World Champion a 50
point gap lead in the current Championship standing after winning
todays GP race.The good news is that two other Spanish riders got
the podium along with Rossi, with Dani Pedrosa second & Toni Elias
in third place.


















Current World Champions table:
1. Rossi 212pts; 2. Lorenzo 162; 3. Stoner

In the 250cc catagory, Spaniard ALVARO BAUSTISTA finished 3rd &
most importantly ahead of current World title leader Aoyama cutting
back points to 12 as Bautista is second in the standing. The winner
was Italian & current World Champion Simocelli with fellow country
man Pasini coming in second place.

Current World Champions table:
1. Aoyama 172pts; 2. Bautista 160; 3. Simoncelli 140

















In the 125cc catagory two Spanish riders came in first & second, these
being TEROL & SIMON respectively. The third place went to Iannone.
Julian SIMON has a > 50 pts leading gap over Terol in their battle for
the World title.

Current World Championship table:
1. Simon 174pts; 2. Terol 119,5; 3. Smith 111,5

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MOTO GP JEREZ (SPAIN) 2009: SPANIARDS PLAY "SECOND FIDDLE" IN ALL 3 CATAGORIES

Moto Gp of the highest level today at the Jerez circuit in Spain.
Great racing in all three catagories in front of more than 124,000
people cheering their racing heroes, with Spanish raiders taking
second place in the 125cc, 250cc & Gp catagories.
























Italian World Champion Valentino Rossi won todays Spanish Moto
Gp after overtaking Spanish ace DANI PEDROSA who lead most of
the race who finished second.The third place went to Casey Stoner
with Spanish pre-race "fancy" Jorge Lorenzo falling in his attempt to
take over Stoner.

Moto Gp World Championship points standing:
1. Rossi 65 pts; 2.Stoner 54; 3. Lorenzo 41 & 4. Pedrosa 41.
























Spanish 250cc rider ALVARO BAUTISTA (image) came in second
after Japenese raider & current World points leader Aoyama
brilliantly overtook the Spaniard in the last lap to win. Italian Marco
Simoncelli was third & Spanish rider Hector Barbara fourth.

250cc World Championship points standing:
1. Aoyama 58pts; 2.Bautista 54; 3.Barbara 43



















Great race from young British rider B.SMITH (image) with his gutsy
victory today in the 125cc catagory over Spaniard GADEA & another
Spaniard in third place MARQUEZ

125cc World Championship points standing:
1. Iannone 37,5; 2. Smith 36,5; 3. Espargaro 31,5

Next Race - France "Le Mans" - 17.05.09

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MOTOGP 2009 - SPANIARDS DO WELL - LORENZO & BAUTISTA WIN IN JAPAN GP2009

Good news from MotoGp & from Japan. Spanish GP rider JORGE
LORENZO (pictured) has won the Japan Gp race in a magnificent
exhibition of riding. Jorge finished ahead of Italian World Champion
& team-mate Valentino Rossi, plus the other good news was the 3ºrd
place for DANI PEDROSA
























The added highlights came from Casey Stoner who had problems
with his bike & Dani Pedrosa who did an excellent start to get ahead
9 places & slip into 2º place behind Rossi in the first curve. From
here Rossi was´nt able to escape & Lorenzo began pulling back places
from 3ºrd to overtake Perdrosa & Rossi take the race & the
leadership in the World points table.

Race results: 1.J.Lorenzo; 2.V.Rossi;3.D.Pedrosa

World Championship points: 1.J.Lorenzo 41pts; 2.V.Rossi 40pts;
3. C.Stoner 38pts
























In 250cc Spaniard ALVARO BAUTISTA (above) managed to win the
race after a terrible start. The race was exciting as the norm in this
catagory with a competitive battle with Aoyama & Pasini. The
Spaniard now goes 1ºst on the World championship table.

Race results. 1.A.Bautista;2.H.Aoyama;3.Pasini

Word Championship table: 1.A.Bautista 34pts; 2.H.Aoyama 33pts;
3. H.Barbera 30pts
























The 125cc catagory saw victory go to IANNONE (pictured) with two
Spaniards,SIMON & ESPARAGO, finsihing 2º & 3ºrd respectively.
Iannone takes the lead in the World Champions table with 37,5pts
followed by Esparago with 30pts & third Cortese with 22,5pts

NEXT RACE - Jerez SPAIN - 3rd of MAY Tweet

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