2011 Aragon MotoGP Sunday Round Up, Part 1: On Racing, Championships, And Italy vs Spain

Three races, three championships drawing closer to their conclusions, but not all of them brought the excitement we might have hoped for. The first race of the day was a good start; Terol ran away at the front of the 125cc race, but behind him there was a tense battle for 2nd and a monster fight for 5th. The Moto2 class delivered the most spectacular race of the day, with every rider in the top 20 finishing with tire marks on his leathers somewhere, until Marc Marquez seized control of the situation and finally got a gap. And the MotoGP race provided the typical 800cc anticlimax that we have come to expect since 2007, with Casey Stoner settling the race in his favor before the first lap was over.

First to the 125s. Nico Terol was up to his old tricks once again at Aragon, getting away early and setting a pace that no one else could follow, though his teammate Hector Faubel certainly did his best. Worthy of note was that Johann Zarco appeared to have learned the lesson of Misano, keeping his cool and resisting his urge to look back for threats from behind which cost him the victory at the previous round. Instead, he kept his cool while Faubel lost his, pushing too hard to get past Zarco into the first of the final pair of corners and sliding out of a certain podium.

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