Today’s Moto2 race at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli was red flagged during the third lap while Andrea Iannone was leading after passing Marc Marquez at the Curvone and Gino Rea’s Federal Oil Suter-Honda engine decided to blow at turn 16, and drip oil forcing the race to be halted while the marshals had to clean the track surface.
The race was shortened to fourteen laps (can’t invade MotoGPs schedule) with the same positions during the fourth lap becoming the new starting grid with Iannone in pole position followed by Marquez, Pol Espargaro, Takaaki Nakagami, Scott Redding, Esteve Rabat, Thomas Luthi, Julian Simon, Mika Kallio and Dominque Aegerter.
In the re-start Iannone got the hole-shot followed by Marquez, an aggressive Rabat, Espargarò, Luthi, Kallio, Redding, Aegerter, Simon and Zarco and for the first seven laps had the Italian who was debuting a one off livery for the race to promote a movie began his charge to escape from the rest of the field, while Marquez had a big moment and lost two positions to Rabat and Pol Espargarò as the Speed Master rider posted the fastest lap of the race.
Espargarò regained the second spot, while Marquez was on a mission as he took third from Rabat and the both Spaniards began chasing down Iannone, as Xavier Simeon, Yuki Takahashi and Simone Corsi all crashed out.
After the first seven laps Iannone began to fade visibily with tire problems that let Espargaro and Marquez catch him on the 9th lap and just one lap later both Spaniards passed the Italian, who began to fade even further, but far enough ahead from the rest of the field to take the third spot on the podium.
The fight for the victory went down on the final lap between the title rival, when Marquez attacked Espargaro at the Quercia, the Pons rider responded immediately, but Marquez came off better at the Tramonto, and Espargaro tried again but Marquez at the Carro forced him slightly wide to cross the finish line ahead of his rival, and take his seventh victory of the season, his third consecutive, and increment his points advantage to a massive +53 points over title rival Espargaro.
Mika Kallio finished fourth ahead of Tito Rabat, Dominique Aegerter and Scott Redding, Bradley Smith, Thomas Luthi and Johann Zarco who closed out the top ten.
Moto2 Misano Race Results:01- Marc Marquez – Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol – Suter MMXII – 14 laps in 23’11.
278 02- Pol Espargaro – Pons 40 HP Tuenti – KALEX Moto2 – + 0.
359 03- Andrea Iannone – Speed Master Team – Speed Up S12 – + 1.
634 04- Mika Kallio – Marc VDS Racing Team – KALEX Moto2 – + 5.
078 05- Tito Rabat – Pons 40 HP Tuenti – KALEX Moto2 – + 5.
246 06- Dominique Aegerter – Technomag CIP – Suter MMXII – + 5.
570 07- Scott Redding – Marc VDS Racing Team – KALEX Moto2 – + 6.
364 08- Bradley Smith – Tech 3 Racing – Tech 3 Mistral 610 – + 6.
853 09- Thomas Luthi – Interwetten Paddock – Suter MMXII – + 7.
480 10- Johann Zarco – JiR Moto2 – MotoBI – + 7.
989 11- Takaaki Nakagami – Italtrans Racing Team – KALEX Moto2 – + 8.
560 12- Julian Simon – Blusens Avintia – Suter MMXII – + 11.
509 13- Alex De Angelis – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Moto M212 – + 18.
329 14- Claudio Corti – Italtrans Racing Team – KALEX Moto2 – + 18.
342 15- Nico Terol – MAPFRE Aspar Team – Suter MMXII – + 18.
568 16- Jordi Torres – MAPFRE Aspar Team – Suter MMXII – + 18.
687 17- Axel Pons – Pons 40 HP Tuenti – KALEX Moto2 – + 18.
862 18- Mike Di Meglio – Kiefer Racing – KALEX Moto2 – + 25.
645 19- Ratthapark Wilairot – Thai Honda PTT Gresini Moto2 – Suter MMXII – + 30.
003 20- Anthony West – QMMF Racing Team – Speed Up S12 – + 32.
439 21- Tomoyoshi Koyama – Technomag CIP – Suter MMXII – + 33.
121 22- Marcel Schrotter – Desguaces La Torre SAG – Bimota HB4 2012 – + 33.
258 23- Alessandro Andreozzi – Speed Master Team – Speed Up S12 – + 33.
532 24- Marco Colandrea – SAG Team – FTR Moto M211 – + 47.
303