125cc: Terol dominates Brno 125cc race
Nico Terol took a crushing victory on a drying track in the Brno 125cc race
The first half of the track was extremely wet as the race began, but the warm temperatures meant it dried very quickly.
Terol picked his way past early leader Efren Vazquez on the second lap and proceeded to charge away from the field. Despite his dominant pace, the Aspar Aprilia rider was still managing to keep his wet tyres intact on what was soon a totally dry track, and he came home to win by 20 seconds in his first race back since his Barcelona injury.
Vazquez and Pol Espargaro battled for second for most of the distance, until the former crashed on the penultimate lap, which allowed Esteve Rabat onto the podium - once again filled entirely by Spaniards.
Jonas Folger fended off local hero Jakub Kornfeil for fourth. Polesitter Bradley Smith faded in the race and chased them home, while championship leader Marc Marquez - racing with a dislocated shoulder - ran second initially before being eased back to seventh.
The majority of riders stayed on wets all race. Johann Zarco was the only frontrunner to gamble on a pitstop and was 5-10s faster than his rivals once on slicks, but having already lost a lap to the leaders, he had no chance of salvaging a good result.
Pos Rider Bike Time/Gap
1. Nicolas Terol Aprilia 43m49.303s
2. Pol Espargaro Derbi + 20.351s
3. Esteve Rabat Aprilia + 20.555s
4. Jonas Folger Aprilia + 29.529s
5. Jakub Kornfeil Aprilia + 29.914s
6. Bradley Smith Aprilia + 29.986s
7. Marc Marquez Derbi + 31.405s
8. Jasper Iwema Aprilia + 32.973s
9. Tomoyoshi Koyama Aprilia + 41.842s
10. Luis Salom Aprilia + 46.128s
11. Adrian Martin Aprilia + 46.759s
12. Alberto Moncayo Aprilia + 47.630s
13. Marcel Schrotter Honda + 50.657s
14. Louis Rossi Aprilia + 50.728s
15. Zulfahmi Khairuddin Aprilia + 55.490s
16. Sandro Cortese Derbi + 1m00.902s
17. Randy Krummenache Aprilia + 1m02.374s
18. Alessandro Tonucci Aprilia + 1m30.736s
19. Johann Zarco Aprilia + 1m50.616s
20. Sturla Fagerhaug Aprilia + 1m53.811s
21. Marco Ravaioli Lambretta + 1m54.419s
22. Isaac Vinales Lambretta + 1m54.710s
23. Luca Marconi Aprilia + 2m03.252s
Retirements:
Efren Vazquez Derbi 17 laps
Simone Grotzkyj Aprilia 13 laps
Ladislav Chmelik Honda 11 laps
Lorenzo Savadori Aprilia 10 laps
Luigi Morciano Aprilia 8 laps
Alexis Masbou Aprilia 1 laps
Danny Webb Aprilia 0 laps
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