MotoGP 2021: Results of the Grand Prix Brno! (race video + 49 photos)

GP3 Series lineup for the 2021 season

Constructors, chassis and engines in the GP3 Series 2018 season

All teams are provided with a Dallara GP3/16 chassis, Mecachrome V634 3.4L V6 engines and Pirelli tires.

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Marc Márquez took a convincing victory at the Jerez Grand Prix, while all his rivals (Andrea Dovizioso, Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa) fell.
At the start, Lorenzo surged ahead of Pedrosa, with Zarco ahead of Cal Crutchlow in fourth. It took Marquez a little time to join the leading group, as the Spaniard started from the second row.

On the third lap, Marc overtook his team-mate Dani Pedrosa and took second position behind Jorge Lorenzo. The Repsol Honda rider got a good look at his opponent's pace on the Ducati, while Crutchlow retired. On the ninth lap, Marquez overtook Lorenzo and took the lead, after which he set a high pace.

Dovizioso saw how his opponent was getting ahead, so he tried his best to catch up with Marc Marquez. On lap 18, Andrea decided to pass Lorenzo on the inner radius, but made a mistake on braking and pushed his teammate off the line, which gave Pedrosa an advantage. Lorenzo made an even bigger mistake when he tried to return to the inside radius. He literally crashed into Pedrosa and flew into his partner. All three left the race...

Results:

1. Marc Marquez ESP Repsol Honda (RC213V) 41m 39.678s
2. Johann Zarco FRA Monster Yamaha Tech3 (YZR-M1) 41m 44.919s
3. Andrea Iannone ITA Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) 41m 47.892s
4. Danilo Petrucci ITA Pramac Ducati (GP18) 41m 48.295s
5. Valentino Rossi ITA Movistar Yamaha (YZR-M1) 41m 48.421s
6. Jack Miller AUS Pramac Ducati (GP17) 41m 49.446s
7. Maverick Viñales ESP Movistar Yamaha (YZR-M1) 41m 53.221s
8. Alvaro Bautista ESP Angel Nieto Team (GP17) 41m 53.754s
9. Franco Morbidelli ITA EG 0.0 Marc VDS (RC213V)* 41m 56.500s
10. Mika Kallio FIN Red Bull KTM Factory (RC16) 41m 59.083s
11. Pol Espargaro ESP Red Bull KTM Factory (RC16) 42m 0.827s
12. Takaaki Nakagami JPN LCR Honda (RC213V)* 42m 0.852s
13. Bradley Smith GBR Red Bull KTM Factory (RC16) 42m 1.443s
14. Tito Rabat ESP Reale Avintia (GP17) 42m 1.781s
15. Scott Redding GBR Factory Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) 42m 16.433s
16. Hafizh Syahrin MAL Monster Yamaha Tech3 (YZR-M1)* 42m 21.539s
17. Xavier Simeon ESP Reale Avintia (GP16)* 42m 28.919s
18. Karel Abraham CZE Angel Nieto Team (GP16) +1 lap

— Jorge Lorenzo ESP Ducati Team (GP18) DNF — Andrea Dovizioso ITA Ducati Team (GP18) DNF — Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda (RC213V) DNF — Cal Crutchlow GBR LCR Honda (RC213V) DNF — Thomas Luthi SWI EG 0.0 Marc VDS (RC213V)* DNF — Alex Rins ESP Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) DNF — Aleix Espargaro ESP Factory Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) DNF
Overall:

1. ^1 Marc Marquez SPA Repsol Honda (RC213V) 70 points
2. ^3 Johann Zarco FRA Monster Yamaha Tech3 (YZR-M1) 58 points (-12)
3. = Maverick Viñales SPA Movistar Yamaha (YZR-M1) 50 points (-20)
4. ^2 Andrea Iannone ITA Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) 47 points (-23)
5. ˅4 Andrea Dovizioso ITA Ducati Team (GP18) 46 points (-24)
6. ^1 Valentino Rossi ITA Movistar Yamaha (YZR-M1) 40 points (-30)
7. ˅3 Cal Crutchlow GBR LCR Honda (RC213V) 38 points (-32)
8. = Jack Miller AUS Pramac Ducati (GP17) 36 points (-34)
9. ^1 Danilo Petrucci ITA Pramac Ducati (GP18) 34 points (-36)
10. ˅1 Tito Rabat SPA Reale Avintia (GP17) 24 points (-46)
11. = Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda (RC213V) 18 points (-52)
12. = Alex Rins SPA Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) 16 points (-54)
13. ^4 Franco Morbidelli ITA EG 0.0 Marc VDS (RC213V)* 13 points (-57)
14. = Pol Espargaro SPA Red Bull KTM Factory (RC16) 13 points (-57)
15. ^5 Alvaro Bautista SPA Angel Nieto Team (GP17) 12 points (-58)
16. ˅3 Hafizh Syahrin MAL Monster Yamaha Tech3 (YZR-M1)* 9 points (-61)
17. ^1 Takaaki Nakagami JPN LCR Honda (RC213V)* 9 points (-61)
18. ˅3 Aleix Espargaro SPA Factory Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) 6 points (-64)
19. NA Mika Kallio FIN Red Bull KTM Factory (RC16) 6 points (-64)
20. ˅4 Jorge Lorenzo SPA Ducati Team (GP18) 6 points (-64)
21. ˅2 Scott Redding GBR Factory Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) 5 points (-65)
22. NA Bradley Smith GBR Red Bull KTM Factory (RC16) 3 points (-67)
23. ˅2 Karel Abraham CZE Angel Nieto Team (GP16) 1 points (-69)

Climax of the race:

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MotoGP 2021: Results of the Grand Prix Brno! (race video + 49 photos)

The Czech stage was quite calm and in good weather conditions, except that Maverick Viñalez went into the gravel on the first lap. The rest of the favorites looked good throughout the race, and the reigning champion's ardor was tamed by Ducati riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso, who took second and first places, with Marquez third.

Valentino Rossi made the wrong choice with the tires and, unlike most drivers who used a hard compound, installed a medium-hard tire on the face, as a result of which he lost pace in the middle of the race and finished fourth, although he could well have ended up on the podium.

Race results:

Championship position after Grand Prix Brno:

The Moscow Raceway opened the season of the Russian Drift Series Grand Prix 2018 and immediately attracted a record turnout - 12,000 spectators filled the stands and this is a significant indicator of the rapid growth in the popularity of drifting in Russia. The geography of the championship is also expanding: Moscow, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Sochi, Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok are ready to host the most progressive racing series in Russia.

At the first stage, pilots from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia met and the surprise of the 2021 season was Daigo Saito, a drifting legend from Japan. We were pleasantly surprised by the new judging and scoring system. The organizers invited Canadian judge Ryan Lantenier , known for refereeing the American Formula Drift and last year's World Cup in Tokyo.

“I am very pleased with both the new judging system and our new judge Ryan,” comments RDS General Director Dmitry Dobrovolsky. — He is one of the most famous judges of American Formula Drift, a very professional and open person. He immediately prepared all the materials on the new system for us, showed and explained everything. This system is being introduced in America this year too. It is attractive because it allows for more accurate and more transparent judging than before. The main thing is that it is understandable to both pilots and spectators, because if the spectators do not understand what’s what, they will not watch, and the level of complaints about refereeing has also noticeably decreased.”

In addition, it is now prohibited to change tires inside a hit (hit-pair race). But this prohibition does not apply to cases where damage to the wheels occurred due to circumstances beyond the control of the pilot - for example, a collision due to someone else’s fault or a foreign object on the track. In the event of a car collision, the victim is automatically recognized as the winner if the damage to the car does not allow the race to continue.

According to the qualification results, 29 entered Top 32 . The winner of the qualification was Artur Melkumyan as part of his new team “ TOYO TIRES x GORILLA ENERGY” , immediately securing his place in the TOP-16.

Congratulations to the qualification leader @artur_020 from the @toyotiresrussia team! Prod by @danilutkin #russiandriftseries #rds #rdsgp #drifting #moscow #drift #rds #rdsgp

A post shared by RUSSIAN DRIFT SERIES (@rds_gp) on May 5, 2018 at 10:56am PDT

Together with him, Arkady Tsaregradtsev (“Fail Crew ”) and Japanese pilot Daigo Saito made it the TOP-16 .

Bad weather made its own adjustments to the balance of power in the TOP-32 . The slippery, sometimes wet surface of the track made it difficult for the first 8 couples to travel. By the TOP 16, the weather had improved and a series of beautiful smoky passages were opened by current teammates Andrey Pesegov and Artur Melkumyan . The spectators in the stands rejoiced at the close pair drift and throughout the TOP-8 . At this stage, last year's champion Gocha Chivchyan (“Forward Auto” ), Ilya Fedorov (“Aimol EE team”) , Latvian Kristaps Blušs and others left the competition. The fight between the pilots became increasingly intense and in the semi-finals ddKaba (“EE Aimol Team”) and Evgeniy Losev (“Avtoprofi”) collided twice in one race: first on furidashi, and then after the changeover. After the collision, Evgeniy Losev’s car left the track on a manipulator.

The second pair of semi-finalists - Daigo Saito and Arkady Tsaregradtsev - competed for a ticket to the final through OMT. In the fight for third place, the Japanese drifter turned out to be more convincing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bie4v2eH-LV/?taken-by=failcrew The mechanics of the Avtoprofi team did the almost impossible and prepared Evgeniy Losev’s Toyota Mark II for the final drive, which he won.

Double at the 1st stage of RDS GP! I have the best team in the World! Special thanks to the mechanics for the restored car after an accident in the TOP4

A post shared by Evgeniy Losev (@losevdrift) on May 6, 2021 at 1:14pm PDT

Evgeniy Losev: “RDS Grand Prix is ​​a ranking competition for me, the level is very high, top riders have arrived. I am pleased with the judging - it is very adequate, understandable and everything is clear, at least for me. When I ride number two, I already understand perfectly well who won and who lost. There are no questions. A very cool event, a lot of spectators, I am very pleased and my team worked at the same level. I can’t convey my emotions, there are a lot of them. Thank you everyone, I’m very happy.”

“Forward Auto” team took 3rd place “Fail Crew” took 2nd place https://www.instagram.com/p/BieBzbDndBe/?taken-by=failcrew And finally, the team took 1st place “Avtoprofi”.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiemZEVnpA5/?taken-by=autoprofi_team

The second stage of the RDS will take place on May 25 – 26 in Ryazan on one of the most spectacular and technical tracks, the Atron Internation Circuit. Spectators will be provided with convenient free parking, comfortable stands, a large food court, a drift taxi, a drift school, a children's playground with animators, drift bikes, and car simulators.

RDS GP 2021 season schedule: 05/25/2018 – 05/26/2018: 2nd stage of the RDS Grand Prix 2021 Ryazan 06/10/2018 – 06/11/2018: 3rd stage of the RDS Grand Prix 2021 Nizhny Novgorod 07/27/2018 – 07/29/2018: Stages 4 and 5 of RDS Grand Prix 2021 Sochi 08/24/2018 – 08/25/2018: 6th stage of the RDS Grand Prix 2021 Krasnoyarsk 09/07/2018 – 09/08/2018: 7th stage of the RDS Grand Prix 2021 Vladivostok

For the first time in the history of Russian drift, fans will be able to watch the battle of the country's best drifters on their TV screens live on the Motorsport TV channel and invariably on the official YouTube channel of the Russian Drift Series https://www.youtube.com/user/vdrifte/videos

Ph by @emchenko_ru

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