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125cc: Espargaro beats Terol to 125cc win

Pol Espargaro defeated compatriot Nico Terol to secure a home victory in the Spanish 125cc Grand Prix

The duo had been part of an enormous lead battle that saw them joined by Efren Vazquez, Sandro Cortese and Esteve Rabat in an initial five-bike breakway pack.

Espargaro, Rabat, Vazquez and Terol all took turns in the lead with some frantic place-swapping, while Cortese lurked right behind them, seemingly biding his time.

But the German never had chance to strike, his Ajo Derbi developing a suspension problem that cost him around seven seconds per lap in the closing stages, dropping him back to 11th.

Vazquez then dropped out of contention when he crashed from third with five laps to go, and with Rabat unable to keep up with the lead pace in the latter stages, it came down to a head to head between Espargaro and Qatar winner Terol.

The latter let Espargaro get ahead with little difficulty, apparently confident he still had to strike back, but Espargaro then raised his pace, and a blistering final two laps broke Terol's challenge and secured victory for the ecstatic Espargaro by a relatively comfortable 1.8s.

Rabat completed an all-Spanish podium by holding off a late challenge from Bradley Smith, who had had a hitherto lonely race, to retain third. Tomoyoshi Koyama fended off a horde of rivals to win the most fraught battle of the event and take fifth.

Polesitter Marz Marquez barely featured in the race. He dropped to fourth by the first corner and had a heavy accident before the first lap was complete.

Pos  Rider                 Bike          Time/Gap
 1.  Pol Espargaro         Derbi       41m36.146s
 2.  Nico Terol            Aprilia       + 1.886s
 3.  Esteve Rabat          Aprilia      + 15.180s
 4.  Bradley Smith         Aprilia      + 17.110s
 5.  Tomoyoshi Koyama      Aprilia      + 25.069s
 6.  Alberto Moncayo       Aprilia      + 26.860s
 7.  Johann Zarco          Aprilia      + 27.102s
 8.  Randy Krummenacher    Aprilia      + 28.465s
 9.  Alexis Masbou         Aprilia      + 28.963s
10.  Jasper Iwema          Aprilia      + 58.830s
11.  Sandro Cortese        Derbi      + 1m03.035s
12.  Marcel Schrotter      Honda      + 1m04.722s
13.  Adrian Martin         Aprilia    + 1m04.841s
14.  Jakub Kornfeil        Aprilia    + 1m05.248s
15.  Luis Salom            Lambretta  + 1m09.300s
16.  Isaac Vinales         Aprilia    + 1m09.540s
17.  Luca Marconi          Aprilia    + 1m34.926s
18.  Joan Perello          Honda      + 1m42.695s
19.  Johnny Rosell         Honda      + 1m51.484s
20.  Muhammad Zulfahmi     Aprilia    + 1m51.525s
21.  Quentin Jacquet       Aprilia        + 1 lap
22.  Marco Ravaioli        Lambretta      + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Jonas Folger          Aprilia    22 laps
     Daniel Webb           Aprilia    21 laps
     Efren Vazquez         Derbi      18 laps
     Michael van der Mark  Aprilia    15 laps
     Louis Rossi           Aprilia    14 laps
     Riccardo Moretti      Aprilia    5 laps
     Sturla Fagerhaug      Aprilia    1 lap
     Lorenzo Savadori      Aprilia    0 laps
     Marc Marquez          Derbi      0 laps

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