2013 Sepang MotoGP Race Result: Procession Follows Feisty Beginning

Full report and results below:

Dani Pedrosa has expelled the demons of Aragon and taken a commanding victory at the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang. The Spaniard took the hole shot into turn one but Jorge Lorenzo barged past his compatriot at turn two to lead the early stages of the race. Pedrosa stalked Lorenzo relentlessly and eventually made his move with fifteen laps remaining, he was never headed from there and was in typically metronomic form, taking the checkered flag by almost three seconds.

Having been passed by Pedrosa, Lorenzo was exposed to a titanic onslaught from Marc Marquez. Lorenzo gave as good as he got as the fiery countrymen swapped positions on numerous occasions, regularly clattering into each other in a fantastic display of intense controlled aggression. Marquez would eventually make his way past Lorenzo at the halfway stage of the race and wasn't challenged further, thus extending his overall lead in the championship standings to forty three points. Lorenzo was forced to settle for third place, a further four seconds behind Marquez as the field stretched over the second half of the race.

Fourth place was taken by Valentino Rossi, The Doctor was able to keep tabs on the front group while Lorenzo was in charge, but once the Repsol Honda riders made their way to the front, Rossi faded away badly, finishing a further four seconds behind Lorenzo. The only real excitement during the closing laps occurred in a spirited battle between Bautista and Crutchlow, the Spanish Gresini Honda rider came out ahead of the Brit in their battle for fifth. The top ten was completed by Bradley Smith, Andrea Dovizioso, Aleix Espargaro and Yonny Hernandez.

Results:

Pos.	Num.	Rider	Bike	Time/Gap
1	26	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	40'45.191
2	93	Marc MARQUEZ	Honda	2.757
3	99	Jorge LORENZO	Yamaha	6.669
4	46	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	10.351
5	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	Honda	22.149
6	35	Cal CRUTCHLOW	Yamaha	22.301
7	38	Bradley SMITH	Yamaha	30.864
8	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	Ducati	45.111
9	41	Aleix ESPARGARO	ART	59.264
10	68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	Ducati	+1'01.417
11	7	Hiroshi AOYAMA	FTR	+1'03.665
12	14	Randy DE PUNIET	ART	+1'14.256
13	71	Claudio CORTI	FTR Kawasaki	+1'21.603
14	8	Hector BARBERA	FTR	+1'27.976
15	5	Colin EDWARDS	FTR Kawasaki	+1'29.442
16	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	Ioda-Suter	+1'29.551
17	23	Luca SCASSA	ART	+1'47.930
18	67	Bryan STARING	FTR Honda	+1'52.927
Not Classified
	70	Michael LAVERTY	ART	8 Laps
	52	Lukas PESEK	Ioda-Suter	9 Laps
	69	Nicky HAYDEN	Ducati	12 Laps
	50	Damian CUDLIN	PBM	13 Laps
	29	Andrea IANNONE	Ducati	14 Laps

 

2013

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