Britain's Danny Kent bagged a hard-fought seventh in today's MotoGP 125cc race at Motorland Aragon after a 20-lap scrap with five other vastly more experienced riders at a track he had never seen before rolling in on Thursday night.
The former Red Bull Rookie, riding the Ajo Aprilia, diced with the likes of Sandro Cortese, Efren Vasquez and Louis Salom for the entire race and, with two laps to go, went from ninth to fifth in one fell swoop, using the slipstream along the start/finish straight, held his line into turn one as the Spaniards started to hold each other up.
Kent was shuffled back to seventh on the last lap but fought back only to lose out again on the chase to the line, with Cortese beating him to sixth by just a tenth of a second. Danny Webb finished the race to take a point in 14th while Harry Stafford and Taylor Mackenzie crashed out. Stafford re-mounted from an early spill but had to retire.
At the front Nico Terol cruised away with the win on his Bankia Aprila, crossing the line some seven seconds ahead of Johan Zarco who had a race-long battle with Hector Faubel for the last podium spot. Faubel, however, crashed out in the final corner while trying to pass Zarco, handing third place to Maverick Vinales.
