It's onAragon circuit in Spain on 27/28/29 of October 2012 that held the 6th round of 2012 ICGP championship.

Here is the race presentation and an Eric Saul interview at 5'30 !

Report by Chris Carter

General ranking is available here

Ian Simpson, on board the Bill Simpson Racing Yamaha TZ 350, clinched the ICGP 350cc Championship at the sixth and final round of the series at Motorland Aragon, Spain.

The 42-year-old Scotsman, a former British Supersport 600 champion, was certain of taking the title before the first eight-lap race even started.

His closest rival through out the year, Frenchman Guy Bertin, the 57- year-old former Grand Prix star, failed to start after the swinging arm broke on the ex-Toni Mang Kawasaki KR 350 in the warm-up and the one from his spare machine would not fit.

With Bertin out Simpson, with a 31-point lead coming into this meeting, could not be caught. But that did not stop him going flat out in both races, battling with both gale force winds and a determined fellow Brit, Mike Hose, the 50-year- old motorcycle dealer on the Lea Gourlay Yamaha 350.

Simpson was fastest in qualifying, ahead of Hose and Bertin.

Quick-starting Hose led the pack away in both legs. Simpson was not to be denied, though. He overturned an early deficit of almost two seconds in race one to win by over three seconds.

The gap was over four seconds, but the Scotsman quickened his pace, grabbed the lead two laps later and went on to win by almost 12 seconds.

After a long day and even longer season, the Champagne Dautel Cadot must have tasted even sweeter to Simpson.

British riders dominated the meeting. Richard Parker (Yamaha 350), the 39-year-old, was third home in race one, but was then robbed of a top four finish in the second when his footrest and gear change linkage fell off, putting him out. Mark Linton (Exactweld 350) was fourth over the line in race one and followed that up with a third in the next outing.

Chris Knight (Redline Motorcycles Yamaha 350), the 46-year-old from Loughborough, qualified down in 13th place, but charged through the pack each time, to finish fifth and fourth.

Chris Rose (Lea Gourlay Yamaha 350), the 55-year-old garage owner, retired in the first leg when running in the top six, after running off into deep gravel, but then pushed Knight all the way in the second leg. Close on the heels of Rose in race two, was Yves Hecq (Armstrong 250), the 51-year-old Belgian, first 250 home, who had eighth overall and third 250 over the line in race one.

Another British racer, 45-year-old Colin Sleigh (Yamaha 250), was seventh in race two, with that entire group covered by less than three fifths of a second.

Peter Howarth (Yamaha 350), the 61-year-old British racer, was eighth overall and fifth 350 in the second leg, after being forced to pull out when holding a good position in the first leg.

The 59-year-old German, Stefan Tennstadt (Bakker Rotax) had been first 250 home in race one, sixth overall, just over a tenth of a second in front of Andre Gouin (Yamaha 250), the 57-year-old Frenchman. Tennstadt beat Gouin home in race two, grabbing fourth place in the 250 class.

1st race results :

2nd race results :

Mark Lister, the 36-year-old British racer, will not forget his debut in the series in a a hurry.

His re-built, ex-Alan Carter Yamaha 350, broke a little-end on practice and he thought his weekend was over, but generous fellow competitor Colin Sleigh stepped in with the offer of the loan of his spare Yamaha 250 for the second qualifying session.

Lister managed only three laps in that before crashing after losing the front end through a strong gust of wind, but an earlier lap had been quick enough to put him 23rd on the starting grid.

From the back of the grid Lister charged through the pack, but after passing Chris Knight to take fifth place he crashed. Knight could not avoid the fallen rival and rode over his left arm and leg.
There was nothing broken, but Lister was battered and bruised. He felt he could have started in race two, but felt that it would not be fair to possibly inflict more financial damage on the generous Sleigh.

While the British riders, on the whole, were having a great day, it was a bad day for the French.

Eric Saul, the 58-year-old jockey-sized Frenchman struggled badly in the gale force winds, described by many riders, Ian Simpson included as the worst they had ever ridden in.
The lightweight Chevallier TZ 250 was blown around all weekend and Saul elected to err on the side of safety.

Guy Bertin was unable to race, while another former GP star, Bernard Fau (Morena 350) was forced to retire in race one when lying sixth, when his swinging arm broke, putting him out of the rest of the meeting.