125cc: Di Meglio wins at Sachsenring
Mike di Meglio won the 125cc German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring, his third win this year, to further increase the lead in the championship
The Ajo Derbi rider had a bad start from sixth on the grid and by the end of the first lap was only eighth, but he then started making steady progress.
By lap 14 of the 27-lap race he was up to third, closing in just one lap a 0.6-second gap to second-placed Aprilia's Simone Corsi, who is now 25 points behind the Frenchman on the championship table after finishing today's race in fifth place.
Di Meglio then set off after race leader Bradley Smith, whose Polaris Aprilia was 1.7 seconds up the road. But within three laps that gap was nullified and the Briton was overtaken on lap 18 and eventually classified fourth.
Aprilia's Stefan Bradl ended up best of the rest in his home Grand Prix, however he was over two seconds behind the winner at the flag, with the Aspar Aprilia of Gabor Talmacsi taking the last podium place.
The reigning champion had a good race after a terrible start, when he released the clutch too abruptly from his pole position spot and dropped outside the top ten by the first corner.
Derbi's Joan Olive and Aprilia's Sergio Gadea suffered engine failures mid-way through the race, forcing them to retire from their ninth and eleventh positions respectively.
Raffaele de Rosa crashed his eighth-placed KTM with five laps of the race to go.
The race was deemed dry by the stewards, even though a light drizzle hit the German track during proceedings.
CLASSIFIED:
Pos Rider Bike Time
1. Mike Di Meglio Derbi 40:03.710
2. Stefan Bradl Aprilia + 2.010
3. Gabor Talmacsi Aprilia + 2.733
4. Bradley Smith Aprilia + 2.847
5. Simone Corsi Aprilia + 9.117
6. Sandro Cortese Aprilia + 9.249
7. Nicolas Terol Aprilia + 9.257
8. Scott Redding Aprilia + 30.778
9. Esteve Rabat KTM + 32.311
10. Marc Marquez KTM + 33.034
11. D.Agerter Derbi + 33.121
12. Andrea Iannone Aprilia + 33.134
13. Pere Tutusaus Aprilia + 33.171
14. Marcel Schrotter Aprilia + 33.208
15. Pablo Nieto KTM + 33.755
16. Efren Vazquez Aprilia + 34.554
17. Pol Espargaro Derbi + 37.776
18. Steve Bonsey Aprilia + 37.872
19. Takaaki Nakagami Aprilia + 54.240
20. Marvin Fritz Seel + 58.249
21. Alexis Masbou Loncin +1:14.202
22. Louis Rossi Honda +1:15.255
23. Robert Muresan Aprilia +1:16.356
24. Marco Ravaioli Aprilia +1:16.854
25. Tobias Siegert Aprilia + 1 Lap
NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:
Rider Bike Laps
Lorenzo Zanetti KTM 25
Tomoyoshi Koyama KTM 24
Raffaele De Rosa KTM 22
Jules Cluzel Loncin 19
Sergio Gadea Aprilia 15
Robin Lasser Aprilia 15
Joan Olive Derbi 14
S.Kreuziger Honda 14
Michael Ranseder Aprilia 12
Bastien Chesaux Aprilia 9
Daniel Webb Aprilia 5
H.van den Berg Aprilia 4
R.Krummenacher KTM 3
Eric Hubsch Aprilia 2
FASTEST LAP: Di Meglio, 1:27.584 on lap 16
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