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125cc: Simon inherits Misano victory

Championship leader Julian Simon inherited victory in the 125cc San Marino Grand Prix as race leaders Pol Espargaro and Andrea Iannone crashed together on the last lap

Aspar Aprilia's Simon fought for the lead for most of the race with Ongetta Aprilia's Iannone, with the two opening a gap as wide as 2.6 seconds over the rest of the field.

But Espargaro, who after dropping well out of the top ten at the start had a great race with several fastest laps and plenty of overtaking moves, joined the leading pair with three laps to go in the 23-lap race and passed them.

An exciting penultimate lap, with Iannone and Espargaro switching many times position at the front, led to the final lap, where the Italian got on the inside of the Spaniard at the last corner, but went too deep, lost control, and swept out the Derbi and its rider.

After both men crashed over the gravel, Espargaro went shouting at Iannone and the latter slightly headbutted the former while the two still had their helmets on.

Simon thus went on to win and increase his lead in the championship, followed by Nicolas Terol (Jack & Jones Aprilia), who took the lead at the start, and a distant Bradley Smith on the second Aspar Aprilia.

Marc Marquez classified fourth with his KTM, ahead of Sandro Cortese's Ajo Derbi and Stefan Bradl's Kiefer Aprilia.

Fontana Aprilia's Simone Corsi was with the leading duo for the first eight laps but then dropped down the order to finish seventh.

Sergio Gadea had a lucky escape when he high-sided his Aspar Aprilia on the first lap. The Spaniard landed in the middle of the track, but thankfully all the riders that followed him managed to avoid him.

CLASSIFIED:

Pos  Rider              Bike      Time
 1.  Julian Simon       Aprilia   40m15.301s   
 2.  Nicolas Terol      Aprilia   +   0.573s
 3.  Bradley Smith      Aprilia   +   5.474s
 4.  Marc Marquez       KTM       +   9.378s
 5.  Sandro Cortese     Derbi     +   9.665s
 6.  Stefan Bradl       Aprilia   +  11.755s
 7.  Simone Corsi       Aprilia   +  23.044s
 8.  Joan Olive         Derbi     +  26.936s
 9.  Jonas Folger       Aprilia   +  32.851s
10.  Daniel Webb        Aprilia   +  34.439s
11.  Michael Ranseder   Aprilia   +  34.733s
12.  Efren Vazquez      Derbi     +  35.763s
13.  Riccardo Moretti   Aprilia   +  35.853s
14.  Lorenzo Zanetti    Aprilia   +  39.937s
15.  D.Agerter          Derbi     +  39.942s
16.  Johann Zarco       Aprilia   +  40.110s
17.  R.Krummenacher     Aprilia   +  59.051s
18.  Lukas Sembera      Aprilia   +  59.100s
19.  Luigi Morciano     Aprilia   +1m00.236s
20.  Takaaki Nakagami   Aprilia   +1m01.191s
21.  Luis Salom         Aprilia   +1m02.848s
22.  Cameron Beaubier   KTM       +1m11.814s
23.  Jasper Iwema       Honda     +1m11.933s
24.  Luca Marconi       Aprilia   +1m12.053s
25.  Gabriele Ferro     Aprilia   +1m14.596s
26.  Jakub Jantulik     Aprilia   +1m28.731s
27.  Luca Vitali        Aprilia   +1m29.309s
28.  Jakub Kornfeil     Loncin    +1m29.916s
29.  A.Tonucci          Aprilia   + 1 Lap

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

     Rider              Bike      On lap
     Andrea Iannone     Aprilia     22
     Pol Espargaro      Derbi       22
     Tomoyoshi Koyama   Loncin      16
     Esteve Rabat       Aprilia     15
     Lorenzo Savadori   Aprilia     13
     Scott Redding      Aprilia      5
     Sergio Gadea       Aprilia      0

FASTEST LAP: Espargaro, 1m43.613s on lap 20

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