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Bradly gets on the podium
Achieving his first podium of the season, Fiat Yamaha´s Valentino Rossi reached the milestone of 100 rostrum finishes with second place behind Pedrosa. The Italian had a late mix-up at the start of the final lap, when he thought that the race was over on the home straight. Slowing down and gesticulating to his pit crew, Rossi then realised that he still had one more lap remaining, although luckily for the five-time MotoGP World Champion he did not lose positions as a result of his error.
Team-mate Lorenzo was unable to benefit from Rossi´s mistake, but had a creditable battle for second place with the Italian. Lorenzo now has two podiums in as many races in his rookie season, and lies in second place in the overall standings.
On the way up to the podium, King Juan Carlos I attempted to end the frisson between Lorenzo and Pedrosa, the two rivals for the affections of the Spanish fans, by making them shake hands. However it is clear after today's result that there are sure to be plenty more battles between the two this season.
2006 MotoGP World Champion Nicky Hayden impressively finished fourth onboard his Repsol Honda RC212V after a miraculous save in turn one, whilst Loris Capirossi emerged from the battle between himself, Tech 3 Yamaha rider James Toseland and JiR Team Scot´s Andrea Dovizioso to take fifth.
The top ten was completed by San Carlo Gresini Honda´s Shinya Nakano, Rizla Suzuki star Chris Vermeulen and Kawasaki's John Hopkins with reigning World Champion Casey Stoner outside the top ten for the first time in over a season. The Australian twice ran off track during the race, on the second and twenty-second laps, and now drops down to fourth in the classification.
Retirements came from Colin Edwards and Randy de Puniet, the former starting from the front row of the grid for the second consecutive race.
Bradley Smith, starts on Pole
Simone Corsi took his second victory in the 125cc class at the Circuito de Jerez, beating Jack&Jones WRB team-mate Nico Terol to the chequered flag and assuming the lead in the lower cylinder class standings.
Starting from the second row of the grid, Corsi took advantage of a slow pace in the early going to sandwich himself amongst the frontrunners, and used his aggressive style and the grunt of his Aprilia RS to break away and record his first win since his maiden triumph at last year´s race in Turkey. On a more standard machine, Terol racked up his debut podium in the World Championship and a historic one-two for the Sito Pons-supported team.
After starting from pole for the second consecutive race, Polaris World´s Bradley Smith was again unable to record his first win in the class, but finished on the podium for the second time in his career after fending off the always dangerous slipstreaming of Stefan Bradl. Smith paid the price for some daring manoeuvres that didn´t quite pay off at the midway and final parts of the race, dropping him back into the trailing pack and allowing Corsi and Terol to break away.
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