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Moto2: Bradl wins, Smith stars in the wet

Stefan Bradl stretched his Moto2 championship lead yet further with a commanding win at a very wet Silverstone - but the hero of the race was home rider Bradley Smith, who came through from 28th on the grid to take his first podium in the series in second

It was another British rider who starred early on, as Scott Redding pounced when fast-starting leader Bradl had a moment on the way out of Stowe on the opening lap.

Redding managed to lead for the first four laps, though he could not shake Bradl off and the German was eventually able to move back ahead into Copse.

By that time both were coming under pressure from the flying Mattia Pasini, who had charged through the field from 22nd for the new Ioda team. On lap six he sliced past Bradl to take the lead - but he was in front for less than two laps before crashing out under braking for Vale.

Bradl was free to dominate from there onwards, as attention turned to Smith's incredible charge. Left only 28th on the grid thanks to electrical problems yesterday, he made up 13 places on the first lap alone, was into the top six by lap four, and past Redding for third on lap seven.

Kenan Sofuoglu was second at that stage, having also got past Redding, but when the Technomag-CIP rider fell at Club with six laps to go, Smith was able to move up to a glorious second.

Michele Pirro claimed his first podium with a very strong ride to third, as Redding slipped to fifth behind Jules Cluzel.

Esteve Rabat and Yuki Takahashi were next up, followed by the recovering Sofuoglu. The latter's team-mate Randy Krummenacher was also a podium contender at first, but went off the road at Vale when Raffaele de Rosa ran into him into a misjudged passing attempt.

Polesitter Marc Marquez rapidly dropped down the order in the wet conditions and was running 13th when he crashed at Vale.

Results - 18 laps:

Pos  Rider                  Team/Bike               Time/Gap
 1.  Stefan Bradl           Kiefer Kalex          44m10.236s
 2.  Bradley Smith          Tech 3                  + 7.601s
 3.  Michele Pirro          Gresini Moriwaki       + 12.241s
 4.  Jules Cluzel           Forward Suter          + 17.271s
 5.  Scott Redding          Marc VDS Suter         + 23.531s
 6.  Esteve Rabat           Blusens-STX FTR        + 28.661s
 7.  Yuki Takahashi         Gresini Moriwaki       + 32.391s
 8.  Kenan Sofuoglu         Technomag-CIP Suter    + 34.662s
 9.  Yonny Hernandez        Blusens-STX FTR        + 37.181s
10.  Simone Corsi           Ioda FTR               + 38.981s
11.  Randy Krummenacher     Kiefer Kalex           + 39.657s
12.  Max Neukirchner        MZ                     + 51.622s
13.  Kev Coghlan            Castello FTR           + 54.810s
14.  Alex Baldolini         Forward Suter          + 56.242s
15.  Thomas Luthi           Interwetten Suter    + 1m00.769s
16.  Andrea Iannone         Speed Master Suter   + 1m06.198s
17.  Mike di Meglio         Tech 3               + 1m19.530s
18.  Aleix Espargaro        Pons Kalex           + 1m27.092s
19.  Javier Fores           Aspar Suter          + 1m29.849s
20.  Dominique Aegerter     Technomag-CIP Suter  + 1m30.338s
21.  Raffaele de Rosa       SAG FTR              + 1m57.792s
22.  Valentin Debise        Speed Up FTR         + 2m11.104s
23.  Robertino Pietri       Italtrans Suter      + 2m29.168s
24.  Mashel Al Naimi        QMMF Moriwaki            + 1 lap
25.  Nasser Hasan Al Malki  QMMF Moriwaki            + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Pol Espargaro          Speed Up FTR             16 laps
     Anthony West           MZ                       14 laps
     Kenny Noyes            Avintia-STX FTR          14 laps
     Claudio Corti          Italtrans Suter          13 laps
     Alex de Angelis        JIR Motobi               11 laps
     Xavier Simeon          Tech 3                   10 laps
     Carmelo Morales        G22 Moriwaki              8 laps
     Ratthapark Wilairot    SAG FTR                   8 laps
     Marc Marquez           Repsol Suter              7 laps
     Mattia Pasini          Ioda FTR                  6 laps
     Mika Kallio            Marc VDS Suter            6 laps
     Jordi Torres           Aspar Suter               3 laps
     Axel Pons              Pons Kalex                0 laps

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