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The ninth round of the 2011 MotoGP series, run at the Sachsenring in the former East Germany, was a classic, producing some of the closest racing yet seen in Grands Prix in every class, and the first dead heat in many years in the 125cc race.
MOTOGP
Dani Pedrosa came out on top of a race-long, three-way battle for premier-class line honours, with Jorge Lorenzo grabbing second from Casey Stoner on the final corner. It was the works Honda rider's fifth GP victory at the Sachsenring, in only his second race after returning from a three-race absence through injury.
Pedrosa got his usual rocket start, taking the hole shot ahead of Lorenzo on the factory Yamaha and Honda team leader Stoner as the lights turned for what was to be a 30-lap fight to the finish.
By the end of lap one Lorenzo was in the lead ahead of the three works Hondas of Pedrosa, Stoner and Andrea Dovizioso, who disputed the lead until Stoner went first on lap five, only to have Lorenzo dive back in front a few laps later.
Lorenzo tried desperately to defend his line and held on to the lead until lap 21, when Pedrosa got a huge drive out of the last corner to grab the lead and hold it to the flag.
Meanwhile a three-way dice for fourth erupted behind the leaders, between Honda privateer Marco Simoncelli, Dovizioso and Lorenzo's team mate Ben Spies. The battle went all the way down to the line with Dovizioso coming home 0.2sec ahead of Spies and 0.4sec ahead of Simoncelli.
Another intense fight between lone Suzuki rider Alvaro Bautista and the factory Ducatis of Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi ended with Hayden less than a tenth of a second behind Bautista and Rossi just 0.006sec further adrift.
Stoner still tops the standings but defending World champion Lorenzo has cut his lead to only 15 points, 168 to 153, with Dovizioso third on 132.
MOTO2
Marc Marquez (Suter) took his third consecutive win - his fourth of the season - ahead of local favourite Stefan Bradl (Kalex) and veteran Alex de Angelis (MotoBi).
Bradl got the hole shot off the start, but pole man Marquez quickly took the lead on the first lap, scrapping for the lead with Bradl until the Suter rider made the decisive move on 22 of 29 to take the win by 0.896sec.
De Angelis, who started from the second row, pressured Bradl throughout the race, closely followed by Aleix Espargaro (Pons Kalex) and fourth-row starter Yonny Hernandez (FTR), until Espargaro and Max Neukirchner (MZ-RE) collided on lap five, ending the race for both of them.
De Angelis was unable to make a move on Bradl, although he finished only half a second adrift.
Randy Krummenacher (Kalex) made his move on Thomas Luthi (Suter) on the second last lap to grab fourth after the two had sparred with De Angelis for third. Sixth went to Hernandez, with Scott Redding (Suter) seventh after a storming ride from 23rd on the grid, in seventh. Simone Corsi (FTR, Jules Cluzel (Suter) and Michele Pirro (Moriwaki) rounded out the top 10.
A first-corner incident took out Julian Simon (Suter), in his first race since breaking his leg at Catalunya on June 5. Simon was unhurt but the Suter was too badly bent to continue. Bradley Smith (Tech 3) ran off track in the same incident, but got back on the circuit only to crash out later in the race.
Marquez' win narrowed the gap to points leader Bradl to 47 points at the halfway point of the season.
125
A breathtaking last-lap battle between Hector Faubel (Aprilia), Derbi's Johann Zarco and teenager Maverick Vinales on the Paris Hilton Aprilia saw Zarco make a move on Faubel out of the last corner, with the two bikes crossing the line side by side.
Not even a video finish could separate the two and the race was declared a dead heat, with the win going to Faubel (his first of the season) by virtue of having set a faster lap during the race than Zarco.
A great start by Sergio Gadea on the second Paris Hilton Aprilia put him in the lead at the start of the 27-lap race, where he was joined by Luis Salom (Aprilia), Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia), Efren Vazquez (Derbi) and Nicolas Terol (Aprilia) in an eight-man battle for the lead.
Meanwhile, pole man Vinales was pushed down to 10th in the start melee, giving the youngster a tough job to fight his way back to the front on the tight and twisty Sachsenring circuit.
Terol, Vazquez and Gadea swapped the lead as the leading pack broke away, until Vazquez outbraked himself into turn one with 11 laps to go and had to run off the circuit. He later crashed out while pushing hard to get back on terms with the leaders.
With 10 laps to go, there were still six riders fighting fiercely at the front, with aggressive passing and bumping for position between the leaders.
Terol faded from the front on lap 22, and Gadea slowed, apparently with clutch trouble, while Vinales made his way up to join Faubel and Zarco at the front, setting up a photo finish.
Championship leader Terol finished fourth, ahead of Salom and Gadea. Jonas Folger (Aprilia), tried to stay with the frontrunners but fell back in the second half of the race to finish seventh, while Sandro Cortese (Aprilia), Danny Kent (Aprilia) and Niklas Ajo (Aprilia) rounded out the top 10..
RESULTS - MOTOGP:
1 Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda - 41min12.482
2 Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha +1.477sec
3 Casey Stoner (Australia) Honda +1.568
4 Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Honda +10.513
5 Ben Spies (US) Yamaha +10.719
6 Marco Simoncelli (Italy) Honda +10.923
7 Alvaro Bautista (Spain) Suzuki +27.451
8 Nicky Hayden (US) Ducati +27.510
9 Valentino Rossi (Italy) Ducati +27.576 10 Colin Edwards (US) Yamaha +33.491
11 Hector Barbera (Spain) Ducati +38.944
12 Karel Abraham (Czech Republic) +39.148
13 Randy de Puniet (France) Ducati +39.415
14 Cal Crutchlow (Britain) Yamaha +39.477
15 Hiroshi Aoyama (Japan) Honda +54.516
16 Toni Elias (Spain) Honda +1min12.335
17 Sylvain Guintoli (France) Ducati +1 lap POINTS AFTER NINE ROUNDS
1 Casey Stoner (Australia) Honda - 168 points
2 Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha - 153
3 Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Honda - 132
4 Valentino Rossi (Italy) Ducati - 98
5 Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda - 94
6 Ben Spies (US) Yamaha - 85
7 Nicky Hayden (US) Ducati - 85
8 Marco Simoncelli (Italy) Honda - 60
9 Colin Edwards (US) Yamaha - 59
10 Hiroshi Aoyama (Japan) Honda - 57
MOTO2
1 Marc Marquez (Spain) Suter - 41min37.457
2 Stefan Bradl (Germany) Kalex +0.896sec
3 Alex de Angelis (San Marino) Motobi +1.387
4 Randy Krummenacher (Switzerland) Kalex +3.413
5 Thomas Luthi (Switzerland) Suter +4.185
6 Yonny Hernandez (Colombia) FTR +7.691
7 Scott redding (Britain) Suter +10.616
8 Simone Corsi (Italy) FTR +10.667
9 Jules Cluzel (France) Suter +12.079
10 Michele Pirro (Italy) Moriwaki +12.337
125
1 Hector Faubel (Spain) Aprilia - 39min57.979
2 Johann Zarco (France) Derbi +0.000sec
3 Maverick Vinales (Spain) Aprilia +0.272
4 Nicolas Terol (Spain) Aprilia +1.723
5 Luis Salom (Spain) Aprilia +2.784
6 Sergio Gadea (Spain) Aprilia +6.786
7 Jonas Folger (Germany) Aprilia +13.116
8 Sandro Cortese (Germany) Aprilia +13.414
9 Danny Kent (Britain) Aprilia +13.710
10 Niklaas Ajo (Finland) Aprilia +29.090
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