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125cc: Simon leads the Spanish armada

Julian Simon utterly dominated the 125cc German Grand Prix ahead of an incredible result for Spain, with the top five riders all from the southern European country

Simon, who started the Sachsenring race from pole and was already four seconds ahead of the rest of the field within seven laps, ended up almost ten seconds in front of Sergio Gadea, whose result made it a 1-2 for the Aspar Aprilia team.

Derbi's Joan Olive took a distant third after aggressively defending the last podium place from KTM's Marc Marquez. The pair came together at a turn exit on the last lap when Olive swiftly changed direction to block Marquez from overtaking.

The latter's bike must have suffered some sort of damage because at the following turn it wobbled strangely before sending Marquez into a major high-side and preventing an even better result for Spain.

Nicolas Terol (Jack & Jones Aprilia) thus took fourth, just a whisker behind Olive, with Derbi's Pol Espargaro fifth after having overtaken Italian Andrea Iannone (Ongetta Aprilia) on the penultimate lap.

Ajo Derbi's Sandro Cortese ended up sixth after he, too, overtook Iannone on the last lap. Danny Webb (Degraaf Aprilia) classified eight, with Dominique Aegerter (Ajo Derbi) and Tomoyoshi Koyama (Loncin) completing the top ten.

Aspar Aprilia's Bradley Smith, second on the grid, went off on the first lap and rejoined at the back of the pack, before retiring on lap four after a crash with the Ajo Derbi of Eeki Kuparinen

The start saw the immediate crash at the first turn of Derbi's Efren Vazquez and Honda's Jasper Iwema.

Simone Corsi also crashed his Fontana Aprilia on lap 15 while trying to pass Olive for fourth place, while Jonas Folger crashed his Ongetta Aprilia a lap later.

CLASSIFIED:

Pos  Rider             Bike     Time
 1.  Julian Simon      Aprilia  39m57.337s
 2.  Sergio Gadea      Aprilia  +   9.415s
 3.  Joan Olive        Derbi    +  17.559s
 4.  Nicolas Terol     Aprilia  +  17.587s
 5.  Pol Espargaro     Derbi    +  19.740s
 6.  Sandro Cortese    Derbi    +  20.778s
 7.  Andrea Iannone    Aprilia  +  20.908s
 8.  Daniel Webb       Aprilia  +  38.221s
 9.  D.Agerter         Derbi    +  38.434s
10.  Tomoyoshi Koyama  Loncin   +  40.085s
11.  R.Krummenacher    Aprilia  +  44.127s
12.  Marcel Schrotter  Honda    +  45.051s
13.  Luis Salom        Aprilia  +  59.604s
14.  Cameron Beaubier  KTM      +1m18.157s
15.  D.Kartheininger   Honda    +1m20.825s
16.  Marc Marquez      KTM      +1m25.137s
17.  Efren Vazquez     Derbi    +1m30.427s
18.  Lukas Sembera     Aprilia  +1m30.528s
19.  Jasper Iwema      Honda    + 1 lap
20.  Lorenzo Savadori  Aprilia  + 1 lap
21.  T.Finsterbusch    Honda    + 1 lap
22.  Damien Raemy      Honda    + 1 lap
23.  Johann Zarco      Aprilia  + 1 lap
24.  Luca Marconi      Aprilia  + 1 lap

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

     Rider             Bike       Laps
     Scott Redding     Aprilia     19
     Stefan Bradl      Aprilia     18
     Takaaki Nakagami  Aprilia     17
     Simone Corsi      Aprilia     16
     Jonas Folger      Aprilia     15
     Michael Ranseder  Aprilia      8
     Lorenzo Zanetti   Aprilia      6
     Eeki Kuparinen    Honda        3
     Bradley Smith     Aprilia      3
     Esteve Rabat      Aprilia      1
     Alexis Masbou     Loncin       1

FASTEST LAP: Gadea, 1m28.337s on lap 6

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