Casey Stoner leads the MotoGP standings by 44 points with four rounds to go after taking an utterly dominant eighth victory of the 2011 season in the Aragon Grand Prix.
Stoner’s practice and qualifying form had suggested he would be hard to beat in the race, and so it proved.
He was beaten off the line by Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa, and Yamaha’s Ben Spies then swept around both of them to take the lead at the first corner.
But by the end of lap one Stoner had overtaken both Pedrosa and Spies and was already storming away in a lead he would never lose, stretching his advantage to eight seconds over Pedrosa. The result was the 100th win for the Repsol/Honda alliance at the top level.
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Stoner’s title rival Jorge Lorenzo at least managed to salvage third on the leading Yamaha. Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini Team) finished 6 seconds behind Lorenzo to take fourth, a strong finish for the Italian considering he ran off the track on his first attempt at passing the YZR-M1 of Ben Spies on lap 9. The Yamaha rider had a great start off the outside of the first row, leading into turn one in front of fellow front row starters Stoner and Pedrosa, but the two Honda riders got past him by lap two, and the American finally finished the race in fifth place.
Álvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki) finished in sixth off an eleventh place start, passing Hayden (Ducati Team) on lap 10 and holding the position to the finish line. The American and Héctor Barberá had a scrap for seventh, with the Hayden passing the Mapfre Aspar ride on the penultimate lap.
Cal Crutchlow (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) finished ninth, ahead of Valentino Rossi who started his Ducati Team machine from pit lane, and Hiroshi Aoyama (San Carlo Honda Gresini) in 11th. motogp.com
Pos. Points Num. Rider Team Time/Gap 1 25 27 Casey STONER Repsol Honda Team 42'17.427 2 20 26 Dani PEDROSA Repsol Honda Team 8.162 3 16 1 Jorge LORENZO Yamaha Factory Racing 14.209 4 13 58 Marco SIMONCELLI San Carlo Honda Gresini 20.646 5 11 11 Ben SPIES Yamaha Factory Racing 27.739 6 10 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 30.373 7 9 69 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati Team 34.288 8 8 8 Hector BARBERA Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP 37.305 9 7 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW Monster Yamaha Tech 3 39.652 10 6 46 Valentino ROSSI Ducati Team 39.832 11 5 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA San Carlo Honda Gresini 39.997 12 4 14 Randy DE PUNIET Pramac Racing Team 54.717 13 3 5 Colin EDWARDS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 58.43 Not Classified 24 Toni ELIAS LCR Honda MotoGP 8 Laps 65 Loris CAPIROSSI Pramac Racing Team 8 Laps 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Repsol Honda Team 0 Lap 17 Karel ABRAHAM Cardion AB Motoracing 0 Lap
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