If you were one of those who shed a tear when the 250cc series was put out to pasture, with tonight’s first Moto2 race in Qatar everyone forgot all about the 250’s, that saw wild racing, crazy passes, fairings being bashed and crashes making Moto2 a spectacular show for any racing fan.
Shoya Tomizawa on the Technomag CIP Moto (Suter chassis) took his first ever GP win in the inaugural Moto2 race in Qatar.
Coming in second was Alex Debon and the third spot was taken by Jules Cluzel who battled it out until the final lap.
Hotly tipped to win was injured Toni Elias who took fourth after being poleman finishing in front of a hard charging Roberto Rolfo.
Mattia Pasini and Thomas Lüthi were sixth and seventh respectively.
Simone Corsi, Gabor Talmacsi and Sergio Gadea completed the top ten.
Riders who failed to finish the race were Alex DeAngelis who lost control of his bike who ended up taking out Stefan Bradl on the first lap.
Julian Simon had to retire with clutch problems on the opening lap.
Axel Pons, Yonny Hernández, Vladimir Leonov and Anthony West all DNF’d.