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125cc: Terol takes hard-fought Brno win

Nicolas Terol withstood race-long pressure to score his second career 125cc victory and his first of the season in the Czech Grand Prix at Brno

The 20-year-old Spaniard led almost the entire 19-lap race on his Jack and Jones Aprilia despite a ferocious pursuit from championship leader Julian Simon that lasted until the final corner.

Andrea Iannone was also involved in the lead battle for much of the time, and was indeed briefly the race's only other leader, but dropped away from the front pair in the final quarter of the event.

Simon, having broken clear of the gaggle to catch Terol and Iannone in the first couple of laps, came closest to taking the lead for himself with four laps to go. But the Spaniard was unfortunate to encounter backmarkers at the wrong time in the final Esses.

Terol slipped past them with less complication, and the small advantage he gained in the two laps it took Simon to regroup his attack may have been enough to secure the victory.

Iannone ended up finishing third as he drifted further away from the leading two in the closing stages.

Bradley Smith took a frustrated fourth.

The Briton should probably have been part of the fight for the win, but he had to sit up on the bike in the final Esses to avoid a crash at the end of the opening lap while running third.

He dropped back into the gaggle. And while a brave move into Turn 3 saw him take at least two riders in one shot to move back up to fourth, he never managed to regather the ground to the leaders.

Pol Espergaro took fifth at the front of a crazy battle that at one point involved as many as 12 riders.

Sandro Cortese beat fellow German Stefan Bradl to sixth, with Marco Marquez fighting back to eighth after his qualifying crash ahead of Sergio Gadea and Juan Olive.

                              
Pos  Rider               Bike            Time 
 1.  Nicolas Terol       Aprilia         40m57.378s
 2.  Julian Simon        Aprilia         +   0.168s
 3.  Andrea Iannone      Aprilia         +   8.719s
 4.  Bradley Smith       Aprilia         +  12.443s
 5.  Pol Espargaró       Derbi           +  16.006s
 6.  Sandro Cortese      Derbi           +  16.066s
 7.  Stefan Bradl        Aprilia         +  17.105s
 8.  Marc Márquez        KTM             +  17.202s
 9.  Sergio Gadea        Aprilia         +  17.223s
10.  Joan Olive          Derbi           +  17.244s
11.  Johann Zarco        Aprilia         +  17.618s
12.  Jonas Folger        Aprilia         +  21.977s
13.  Marcel Schrötter    Honda           +  34.487s
14.  Efrén Vazquez       Derbi           +  34.512s
15.  Scott Redding       Aprilia         +  41.558s
16.  Daniel Webb         Aprilia         +  43.098s
17.  Randy Krummenacher  Aprilia         +  43.121s
18.  Dominique Ägerter   Derbi           +  43.164s
19.  Takaaki Nakagami    Aprilia         +  43.453s
20.  Michael Ranseder    Aprilia         +  43.917s
21.  Tomoyoshi Koyama    Loncin          +  50.710s
22.  Luigi Morciano      Aprilia         +1m09.976s
23.  Alessandro Tonucci  Aprilia         +1m10.633s
24.  Alexis Masbou       Loncin          +1m35.007s
25.  Luca Vitali         Aprilia         +1m39.485s
26.  Luca Marconi        Aprilia         +1m39.739s
27.  Karel Pesek         Derbi           +1m40.019s
28.  Ivan Visak          Honda           +   1 laps
29.  Ladislav Chmelik    Honda           +   1 laps
30.  Lukáš Šembera       Aprilia         +   1 laps
                                                   
Retirements                                 
                                                   
     Simone Corsi        Aprilia            12 laps
     Lorenzo Savadori    Aprilia             8 laps
     Esteve Rabat        Aprilia             7 laps
     Luis Salom          Aprilia             5 laps
     Jasper Iwema        Honda               2 laps
     Lorenzo Zanetti     Aprilia             1 laps

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