Moto2: Kallio takes stunning Donington win

After a first lap that saw him getting into the top ten, the Finn's KTM steadily came up the order and was third by lap ten, two seconds behind the leading pair of Gilera's Marco Simoncelli and Aprilia's Alvaro Bautista.

Kallio, who fully closed the gap to the leaders five laps before the end of the 27-lap race, was in the perfect position to take advantage of any mistakes by the two riders at the front.

And a mistake happened at the last turn of the penultimate lap, when Simoncelli tried to outbrake Bautista and take the lead back. The Italian, however, went wide and forced the Spaniard off the line with him, allowing Kallio to take the lead ahead of the last lap.

Simoncelli then set the fastest lap of the race in his pursuit of the rival, but it wasn't enough and he had to settle for second and postpone hopes of leading the series, which he would have done had he finished on the podium ahead of Kallio.

A disgruntled Bautista finished third, followed by the Aprilias of Hector Barbera in fourth almost eight seconds further back and Thomas Luthi in fifth.

Mattia Pasini crashed from tenth place when he lost the front on lap twelve and retired in the pits after managing to rejoin the track.

CLASSIFIED:

Pos  Rider              Bike      Time
 1.  Mika Kallio        KTM       42:14.410   
 2.  Marco Simoncelli   Gilera    +   0.353
 3.  Alvaro Bautista    Aprilia   +   1.237
 4.  Hector Barbera     Aprilia   +   8.875
 5.  Thomas Luthi       Aprilia   +  11.359
 6.  Hiroshi Aoyama     KTM       +  16.124
 7.  Alex Debon         Aprilia   +  16.136
 8.  Julian Simon       KTM       +  18.007
 9.  Yuki Takahashi     Honda     +  33.271
10.  Aleix Espargaro    Aprilia   +  49.681
11.  R.Locatelli        Gilera    +  52.534
12.  Karel Abraham      Aprilia   +  55.311
13.  Lukas Pesek        Aprilia   +  57.399
14.  Manuel Poggiali    Gilera    +  57.641
15.  Hector Faubel      Aprilia   +1:04.329
16.  R.Wilairot         Honda     +1:06.156
17.  Fabrizio Lai       Gilera    +1:15.812
18.  Russell Gomez      Aprilia   +   1 Lap
19.  D.T.Pradita        Yamaha    +   1 Lap

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

     Rider                Team     On lap
     Eugene Laverty     Aprilia      20
     Alex Baldolini     Aprilia      14
     Mattia Pasini      Aprilia      13
     Imre Toth          Aprilia      12

FASTEST LAP: Simoncelli, 1:32.474 on lap 27