Race 1 MotoGP Red Bull Rookies Cup at Motorland Circuit Aragon.

Race 1 of the 2 race weekend at the Motorland circuit in Aragon has just finished and fortunately, and rather against yesterday's predictions, it took place in dry and sunny conditions.

As pretty much usual with the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup races it was all pretty manic at the front and finally came down to a race of 7 riders at the front and saw Brad finishing in 6^th place.

I'm sure Brad would have liked better but a 6^th place ain't bad when you consider that there was only 0.355 seconds between 2^nd and 6^th place. While Karel Hanika won the race he was helped this time when Marcos Ramirez almost fell while leading on lap 9 of the 15 laps. Ramirez succeeded in recovering a massive slide that saw the bike on its side using his knee and elbow to push the bike back up. Running off track as the bike came back upright again he got in the way of the following pack. Hanika, his luck never seems to run out, was just in the right place to avoid the problems and was able to get a small distance between himself and the following riders, which he held to the end to the tune of 1.511 seconds.

Ramirez justified and compensated for his incredible save by being able to finish in 8^th place, just 6 seconds behind 7^th placed Jorge Martin.

Fellow Brits “South African” Jordan Weaving finished 13^th and Tarran MacKenzie 16^th.

Let's see if Brad can better the result in tomorrow's race.