| | | | Red Bull Rookies Cup : Johann Zarco is champion!! |  Written: 18/09/2007 : 10:24. Read 1460 times (7/day). | | The integrality of this filed article is for Premium Members. | Johan Zarco, frenchman, is the first rider ever to win the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. He has won the title thanks to his third victory of the season on the Estoril race track. Nevertheless the french rider had to fight hardly with Cameron Beaubier et Matthew Hoyle.
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"I am absolutely thrilled to win the first Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and it was a great race," said Zarco who had dominated practice completely.
Johann also told us how was his race :
"I tried to get away from the start but I couldn't. I don't know but perhaps they picked up some of my lines and as they followed. I did expect that Cameron might challenge in the race as he's a very good rider and we had a great fight with Matthew all the way."
"In the end it came down to just trying to make a perfect last two laps and hope I could gain a small advantage, I just really concentrated on that. I only found out after the race that Cameron had made a bit of a mistake and was not right there behind me."
"Yeah, I just got the rear wheel a little in the air on the brakes," said Beaubier. "I had to let them off and ran a bit wide. We had a lap and a half to go and tried to catch back up but the bike was sliding around a lot as the tyres were pretty worn and I just couldn't do it."
"I really enjoyed the race, it was great," continued Beaubier. "There was not much in it around the lap, Johann was a bit quicker than me going into the last turn but I had a better line coming out. That was about it."
So Zarco is champion as he also left one race (at Valencia) but it would not mean that he will be KTM rider in 125cc GP next season. But it is not impossible too.
He has a contract with KTM so he could probably be in the serious business in 2008. We are hopping for that!!
Championship world Standings :
1- ZARCO Johann (FRA) 134 PTS
2- SAVADORI Lorenzo (ITA) 92 PTS
3- HOYLE Matthew (GBR) 84 PTS
4- BEAUBIER Cameron (USA) 76 PTS
5- SALOM Luis (SPA) 67 PTS
6- CARILLO Cyril (FRA) 64 PTS
7- GULL Robert (SWE) 52 PTS
8- REITERBERGER Markus (GER) 50 PTS
9- BROWN Deane (GBR) 47 PTS
10- TURNER Kris (USA) 41 PTS
11- TRABALON Cristian (SPA) 38 PTS
12- FAGERHAUG Sturla (NOR) 34 PTS
13- KARTHEININGER Daniel (GER) 33 PTS
14- GLÖCKNER Lucy (GER) 29 PTS
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