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Last lap of the Moto2 race at Brno - Zarco leads Rabat by 1.2s.
If the top three stay like this, Rabat will move ahead of Rins by five points in the championship standings, but he'll be 79 points adrift of Zarco.
Zarco has increased the gap to 1.3s over Rabat - the Frenchman is on course to secure his fourth win of the season and increase his championship lead.
With three laps to go at Brno, here's the Moto2 top five:

1 Zarco
2 Rabat
3 Rins
4 Marquez
5 Lowes
Rins, who won last time out at Indianapolis, is on course for his third consecutive podium finish.
Rins has closed the gap to Rabat in second to 0.7s with five laps to go for the leaders.
Rabat has closed up to within 0.8s of Zarco and the race lead.
Lowes has passed Luthi and the British rider is up to fifith place from thirteenth on the grid.
Rabat, who was third in the championship standings before the race is looking for his second win of the season.
Zarco's gap over Rabat is back up to one second, with Rins a further 0.9s back in third.
With nine laps to go for the Moto2 field at Brno, here's the top 10:

1 Zarco
2 Rabat
3 Rins
4 Marquez
5 Luthi
6 Lowes
7 Folger
8 Morbidelli
9 Cortese
10 Salom
Marquez is just 0.3s behind Rins in fourth place - his best finishing position so far this year in Moto2 is ninth, which he has secured twice at Jerez and Assen.
Zarco's lead is back up to 0.8s over Rabat - the gap stretches and closes with each sector.
Lowes goes around the outside of Morbidelli to move up the seventh.
Rins passes Luthi to take third place - but he's one second behind Rabat in second.
Sam Lowes sets the fastest lap of the race with a 2m02.755 as he recovers from a disappointing qualifying session where suspension problems meant he started down in thirteenth - he's up to ninth.
Alex Marquez is still pressuring his former Moto3 teammate Alex Rins - the gap is just 0.1s in the fight for fourth place.
Zarco's lead is up to 1.2s over Rabat - the championship leader is looking for his tenth consecutive podium finish of the 2015 season.
As Zarco escapes up front, Marquez is pressuring Rins for fourth place and the pair are just one tenth behind Luthi in third.
Zarco leads across the line as the field starts their third lap. The Frenchman had set the fastest lap of the race before Alex Rins usurped him by one tenth of a second.
Luthi leads across the line but he's being tracked by championship leader Zarco.
But Luthi grabs the lead at Turn 4 and Zarco follows hims past Rabat who gets shuffled down to third.
Rabat seizes the lead off the line and heads into Turn 1 in first place.
The riders are off on their warm up lap and we're just two minutes away from the start.
Five minutes to go until the start of the Moto2 race - the riders are climbing onto their bikes as the temperatures climb ever higher at Brno.

By: Mitchell Adam, Alex Kalinauckas

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