Rain at Qatar stops 125 race.
The first race of the 2009 125cc grand prix season has been red-flagge🍸d after just four full laps due to torr🦩ential rain at the Losail circuit, in Qatar.
Racing at Qatar does not ta🎃ke place in the wet due to visibility problems cau𒐪sed by glare from the floodlights.
Pole sitter Julian Simon had just taken the lea🍷d from Iannone at th꧅e time of the weather change. Simon then fell due to the rain, but was able to get his bike back to the pits and be credited with second position.
The first race of the 2009 ꦛ125cc grand prix season hasܫ been red-flagged after just four full laps due to torrential rain at the Losail circuit, in Qatar.
Racing at Qatar does not take place in the wet due to visibili𒈔ty probꦆlems caused by glare from the floodlights.
Pole sitter Julian Simon had just taken the lead fr💎om Iannone at the time of the weather change. Simon then fell due to the rain, but was able to get his bike back to the pits and be credited with second position.
After some safety car laps, with Valenti꧟no Rossi among the passenge📖rs, it was decided to abandon the race and award half points.
The result was thus taken from the end of the last complete lap before the race was stopped, when the order was: Iannone (Aprilia), Simon (Aprilia), Cortese (Derbi), Espargaro (Derbi), Smith (Aprilia), Folger (Aprilia), Terol (Aprilia), Bradl (Aprilia), Webb (Aprilia), Rabat (Aprilia).
Factory KTM star Marc Marquez had earlier escaped serious injury in a spectacular highsid😼e, after running wide onto the artificial grass on the exit of a fast right-hander, while battli🐲ng for third.
It now remains to be seen if the rain will stop, and t🧔rack dry sufficient༺ly, to allow the 250 and MotoGP events to go ahead as planned.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and ha༒s seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
