Jerez Moto3: Vinales victorious in crash filled race

Maverick Vinales wins the Moto3 Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, his first victory of the season.
Vinales, Moto3, Spanish MotoGP 2013
Vinales, Moto3, Spanish MotoGP 2013
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By Lisa Lewis

Team Calvo rider Maverick Vinalesꦺ won the Moto3 Spanish Grand Prix, after a red-flag caused by an accident for CIP rider🍸 Alan Techer.

Vinales now leads the world championship standings by four points from Luis Salom after leading lap 15, where the race was counted back to 🌼as the last complete lap.

It is Vinales' bestꦿ result at Jerez after failing to finish in 2011 and finishing siဣxth in 2012 after running wide on the second lap.

Salom had to settle for a frustrating second as he was sat behind his fellow Spaniard waiting for the right moment to make his mov♉e aboard his Red Bull KTM Ajo, when the race was cut short.

Jonas Folger was third for Mapfre Aspar with his first podium of the season he is also the first non-S💧panish rider to make the rostrum this year.

KTM once again dom🌳inate with all three of the top riders a🥂board a KTM or Kalex KTM.

Initial reports said♏ Techer was 'consc꧙ious' and currently undergoing treatment in the medical centre.

Alex Rins lost out in the championship race as he had been 📖in the leading group with Vinales, Salom and Folger until he lost the front of his Estrella Galicia KTM with thirteen laps to go𒉰, allowing the two remaining Spaniards to open a gap on Folger.

Brad Binder b𒈔enefited from a huge gap after both Mahindra's Miguel Oliveira and Caretta rider Jack Miller crashed behind ♑him, leaving him clear for fourth and the top finishing Honda.

The battle for fifth was won by Redox RW Racings Jakub Kornfeil dღespite a lack of track t𒊎ime as he only joined the paddock on Saturday after sitting exams in the Czech Republic.

Sixth was awarded to Avant Tecno's Niklas Ajo while Red Bull's Zulfahmi Khairuddin hဣad moved into seventh at the race end.

Completing the top ten were Mahindra's Efren Vazquez, Sa𒐪n Carlo Team Italia rider Romano Fenati and Ongetta Rivacold's Alexis Masbou.

British🍃 rider John McPhee narrowly missed out on a first top ten placing but still recorded a best finish of 11th for the Caretta Technology- RTG team.

The Scot had pa🧔ssed Masbou, who he crashed with in Qata💖r, but lost out when the race was taken back to the last completed lap.

The third of the Red Bull machines, piloted by Arthur Sissis was 12th, with Briton Danny Web💮b next on the timesheets for Ambrogio Racing in 13th.

Jasper Iwema, whose crash red-🍬flagged the Austin Grand Prix, returned to finish 14th for 🙈the RW Racing GP team.

Livio Loi finished his first race in the championship in the p𒉰oints taking 15th for Marc VDS.

He is the first B🐈elgian to race in the li🦋ghtweight class since Lucio Pietroniro in 1989. He exceeded the expectations of the team who expected the sixteen year old to place around 20th on his debut.

In a crash filled race Alex Marquez, who was the first to fall returned🍷 to finish 23rd while Port𒁃uguese rider Oliveira also returned to track for 16th.

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