Repsol Honda rider, Casey Stoner, to realize his ambition for the main podium Spanish GP. Start of the fifth, Australian rider was able to win the fight with the Spanish duo, the rival of Yamaha, Jorge Lorenzo, and his teammate, Dani Pedrosa, ending a victory drought at the Jerez circuit.
This is the first victory of his career Stoner at Jerez. As for Lorenzo, the ambition to win two straight wins in the opening MotoGP series have vanished, and he also failed to score a hat-trick in public alone after two previous seasons is always a winner.
With the results of this second series, Lorenzo still lead the standings with a total of 45 points, followed by Stoner with 41. While Pedrosa, who started from second position, had to settle for finishing in third place, and is currently in third place standings with 36 points.
The road race
Pedrosa made a perfect start, so he went ahead. Lorenzo was second, followed by Crutchlow. Towards the end of the first lap, poking Dovizioso into second, but immediately returned by Lorenzo. Traffic at the beginning of this race to make the drivers are very careful, so it is not an accident.
Entering the second lap, Stoner, who make the fastest lap, so he threatens to overtake Lorenzo Pedrosa position. Sure enough, the Australian rider managed to pass his team mate to lead the course of the race. Even while Pedrosa slipped to fourth, behind Lorenzo and Hayden. Tech 3 Yamaha duo, Crutchlow and Dovizioso, also enliven the competition in the front row, as they trailed Pedrosa.
On the third lap, distance antarpebalap start tenuous. Stoner, Lorenzo, Hayden, Pedrosa, Dovizioso, and Cruthclow, competing in front of the group. One lap later, Stoner increasingly remote and make gaps 0.547 seconds with Lorenzo. In the third place, Hayden received threats from Dovizioso, who got past Pedrosa.
Memaski sixth lap, Stoner and Lorenzo the way ahead. Tight battle actually happened in the race for third place as Hayden, Dovizioso, Pedrosa, and Crutchlow, stalking each other, because their distances are so close. Not long ago, Pedrosa poke into third place after passing Dovizioso and Hayden.
Apparently, the performance began to sag so that the Ducati GP12 on the seventh lap, Hayden, who started from third place, had slipped to number six. Not just the past Pedrosa, the 2006 world champion was overtaken Dovizioso and Crutchlow. Even he started getting threats from the two Honda satellite team, Stefan Bradl (LCR), and Alvaro Bautista (Gresini).
What about Rossi? Seven-time world champion premier class is only capable of competing in the back row and the fight against the Ducati satellite teams. Until the eighth lap of "The Doctor" is at number 10, to compete with Hector Barbera (Pramac), and Karel Abraham (Cardion AB).
While in the leading position, Stoner continues to control the race with a 0.674 second advantage over Lorenzo. Two riders competing this far left Pedrosa with coherence time of 3.580 seconds. While Crutchlow finished fourth and Pedrosa continues stalking position.
Entering lap 12, Stoner getting away with a 0.803 second advantage of Lorenzo, as well as Pedrosa finished third, 4.874 seconds remaining. Crutchlow continued to stick Pedrosa and Dovizioso in fifth position. Meanwhile, Hayden further and further behind since slipped to eighth after overtaken Bautista and Bradl. Thus, Ducati duo, Hayden and Rossi, finished 8-9, followed by Barbera and his teammate Lorenzo, Ben Spies.
Until lap-15, rider on the track composition has not changed. Stoner, Lorenzo, Pedrosa, Crutchlow, Dovizioso, Bautista, Bradl, Hayden, Rossi, Barbera, Spies, Abraham and Randy de Puniet (Power Electronic Aspar), consecutive positions 1 to 13.
When the remaining nine-lap race, Lorenzo began to put pressure on Stoner. Slowly but surely, the 2010 world champion continued to trim gap and just 0.374 seconds behind. Be exciting and tight battles to fight over the main podium. Whereas in the second row, only Pedrosa and Crutchlow who continued to fight fought third position, as Dovizioso, who finished fifth was too far behind, 10.560 seconds behind.
However, Stoner managed to cope with pressure. Although it continues being followed Lorenzo, 2007 and 2011 world champion managed to finish the race for 27 laps this perfectly, so it came out as the winner and end the dream for the main podium at Jerez. Pedrosa finished third, followed by Crutchlow, Dovizioso, Bautista, Bradl, Hayden, Rossi, and Berbera. While Spies slumped to No. 11.
