We're ready for the final race of the season in the Moto 2 race at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain.
Pol Espargaro is already champion.He wants to be in MotoGP next year. But, he crashed in the morning warmup. If he wins today, he'll have seven victories in Moto 2. Jordi Torres and Simone Corsi are second and third. Randy Krummaenacher is back for the first time since Silverstone, due to an injury. We're ready for the final round of the world championship for Moto 2. Pol Espargaro wants to win in front of his home crowd. Here we go.
27 laps scheduled. We're ready for a start. Go! At the start, Pol Espargaro gets a good start and there's bustling for posiution in the back. Espargaro gets a big jump. Tom Luthi tries passing Simone Corsi. Dominik Aegerter gets a good start, too. Jordi Torres passes Tom Luthi for third. Espargaro is pulling away from everyone as Gino Rea runs wide. Scott Redding has dropped to 18th place. Espargaro has a second advantage on Simone Corsi. Mika Kallio is moving through the field. Someone else has crashed. Tito Rabat is running well.
Tom Luthi is not moving up. Johann Zarco has lost spots. Aegerter is moving by as Takaaki Nakagami moves up and there's a battle on between Nico Terol and Dominik Aegerter battle. Terol runs fastest lap as Luthi wants by Torres. Luthi, Rabat, Kallio, Zarco and others are jockeying for position. Simone Corsi is running well and Nico Terol sets fast lap. Not sure of the time. Nakagaami is right in the middle of a mid pack battle as Scott Redding drops another place.
Tito Rabat runs wide. Pol Espargaro continues to open a gap. 1:35.708 is the new fast lap by Espargaro. 21 laps left. Espargaro has a HUGE twitch! That was massive! He thankfully held onto the bike. Will Nico Terol and Simone Corsi pounce on that? Zarco is ahead of Rabat now. Rafid Topan Sucipto retires but also, Pol Espargaro has crashed out of this race! Unreal! Front end folds and he goes down after having a 1.5 second lead. Nico Terol leads in Moto 2. Espargaro is back on the bike, but he won't win this.
Nico Terol takes the lead. Simone Corsi is second with Jordi Torres in third. Terol wants his third Moto 2 win and Simone Corsi wants his first Moto 2 win even though he's won in Moto 3. We know Terol is quick. He's got a 4/10ths of a second lead. Luthi is thirteenth. He's got a softer rear tire and it hasn't worked. Ten laps complete. 17 left. Both Aspar riders are trying to get on the podium. Scott Redding is trying to hang on to second in the world championship.
Redding runs behind Luthi. Xavier Simeon passes Mattia Pasini. Nico Terol still leads. Tom Luthi is being hounded by Scott Redding. With Luthi, the soft tires were a bad call. Terol runs fast lap. Not sure of the time. Pol Espargaro languishes in 30th spot. Luthi gets back by Xavier Simeon. Sandro Cortese is 16th and wildcard Franco Morbidelli is 19th. Nico Terol knows he has to up the pace to control the rest of this race.
Simone Corsi has won at Ricardo Tormo, in the old 125cc class. Johann Zarco will be switching teams next year. Jordi Torres almost flies off his bike. Pol Espargaro is still 29th. Nico Terol has a 2.6 second gap to Simone Corsi. Anthony West is eighth, running ahead of Dominik Aegerter. Simone Corsi is having tire issues at the moment. For Dominik Aegerter, he will score points in the 33rd consecutive race. Ten laps left now.
Jordi Torres won't challenge Simone Corsi. Working lap 18 of 27. Will Torres be patient? He wants to get by Corsi. Can Torres get through for a 1-2 for Team Aspar? We'll see. Nico Terol is checking out. Torres has to be patient. Will he get by Corsi? Just seven laps to go. Corsi and Torres fighting for second is the best battle on track as Julian Simon passes Xavier Simeon. Dominik Aegerter and Tom Luthi battle, too. Is Torres close enough to get by Corsi? No.
Here he comes. He does it! We have an Aspar 1-2. Nico Terol used to run this way in the 125cc class. He's going for it with just four laps to go. He is very Jorge Lorenzo-esque in that way. Nico Terol only had one podium in Moto 2 last year, and that was in this race, last year, in 2012. Tom Luthi battles with Anthony West. Mattia Pasini and Dominik Aegerter want to finish as Gino Rea is battling with Franco Morbidelli and others.
Two laps left. West passes Luthi into turns five and six. Anthony West gets passed by Tom Luthi in turn eight. This battle is for seventh spot. It's the final lap. Corsi is being pressured by Johann Zarco. He'll have one chance. This is for the final spot on the podium as the two Aspar bikes will finish 1-2. Zarco wants by Corsi. Corsi is still pushing. It will be a run to the line. Nico Terol will win. He wins his third Moto 2 race of the year. Who gets third? Corsi! It was a dead heat for third!
#18 Nico Terol ESP Suter Alcoy
Champion
#1 Pol Espargaro ESP Kalex Granollers
So, that's a wrap for the Moto 2 world championship. Another season is in the books. Looking forward to what 2014 will have to offer. We'll see you next year for more great Moto 2 action. So long for now.
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