Pirro gives Gresini Moto2 victory

Michele Pirro gave the Gresini Racing team a hugely emotional victory in the Valencia Moto2 race, a fortnight after the death of the squad's lead MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli in a crash at Sepang. Gresini had agonised over whether to race at Valencia at all in the wake of Simoncelli's death. Its riders Pirro and Yuki Takahashi then timed their qualifying runs perfectly to take a poignant first and second on the Moto2 grid before rain fell yesterday

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