This is the second consecutive victory for the Gilera rider, placing him in second place in the championship just three points behind leader Mika Kallio, whose KTM broke down today.
Simoncelli and the Aprilias of Bautista and Hector Barbera opened a gap after the first handful of laps. After 17 of the 23-lap race Barbera started losing ground from the other two, but by then he already had a gap of eleven seconds over Aprilia's Alex Debon in fourth.
Bautista, who started the race from pole position, led all laps but three of the race. Unfortunately for him that included the very last lap, when under pressure from Simoncelli he made a mistake and went wide around the corner, allowing his rival through.
Bautista managed to close the gap and crossed the finish line just four hundredths of a second behind Simoncelli.
Barbera ended up over eleven seconds behind in third, with Debon ten seconds further back in fourth.
Next on the finish line came the Aprilias of Thomas Luthi and Mattia Pasini, who both took advantage of the retirement of Kallio, who was leading them until his mechanical failure on lap 19.
Gilera's Roberto Locatelli and Honda's Yuki Takahashi made a great start from eleventh and seventh respectively to find themselves in third and fourth after the first corner.
However, while fighting on the first lap for fourth position after being both overtaken by Simoncelli, Takahashi hit Locatelli who crashed out and walked away, while the Japanese went through the gravel trap, rejoined the race in a lowly 23rd, and classified 12th.
CLASSIFIED: Pos Rider Bike Time 1. Marco Simoncelli Gilera 41:01.859 2. Alvaro Bautista Aprilia + 0.039 3. Hector Barbera Aprilia + 11.291 4. Alex Debon Aprilia + 21.373 5. Thomas Luthi Aprilia + 26.621 6. Mattia Pasini Aprilia + 26.720 7. Hiroshi Aoyama KTM + 35.818 8. Hector Faubel Aprilia + 36.321 9. Julian Simon KTM + 36.964 10. Lukas Pesek Aprilia + 41.237 11. R.Wilairot Honda + 52.391 12. Yuki Takahashi Honda + 56.656 13. Alex Baldolini Aprilia + 59.282 14. Manuel Poggiali Gilera +1:02.503 15. Fabrizio Lai Gilera +1:02.656 16. Eugene Laverty Aprilia +1:07.418 17. Russell Gomez Aprilia + 1 Lap 18. D.T.Pradita Yamaha + 1 Lap NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS: Rider Bike Laps Mika Kallio KTM 19 Imre Toth Aprilia 9 Karel Abraham Aprilia 7 Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 2 Daniel Arcas Honda 2 R.Locatelli Gilera 0 FASTEST LAP: Bautista, 1:46.143 on lap 21
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