Terol dominates Brno 125cc race

Date published : 15 Aug 2010 - 09:57:38

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 + 41.842s10. Luis Salom Aprilia + 46.128s11. Adrian Martin Aprilia + 46.759s12. Alberto Moncayo Aprilia + 47.630s13. Marcel Schrotter Honda + 50.657s14. Louis Rossi Aprilia + 50.728s15. Zulfahmi Khairuddin Aprilia + 55.490s16. Sandro Cortese Derbi + 1m00.902s17. Randy Krummenache Aprilia + 1m02.374s18. Alessandro Tonucci Aprilia + 1m30.736s19. Johann Zarco Aprilia + 1m50.616s20. Sturla Fagerhaug Aprilia + 1m53.811s21. Marco Ravaioli Lambretta + 1m54.419s22. Isaac Vinales Lambretta + 1m54.710s23. Luca Marconi Aprilia + 2m03.252sRetirements: 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