Spain’s Dani Pedrosa sealed his return from injury by winning the German Grand Prix on Sunday while compatriot and MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo snatched second place for Yamaha at the final corner.
Australian Casey Stoner, who had started on pole position and led for a while, finished third and his overall championship lead over Lorenzo was cut to 15 points with nine races left.
Pedrosa’s win was his first podium finish since he won in Portugal in May, before he broke his collarbone in a collision with Italian Marco Simoncelli at the French Grand Prix that same month.
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The Catalan, also last year’s winner at the Sachsenring ahead of Lorenzo and Stoner, missed three races after two rounds of surgery and only came back at this month’s Italian round.
“(It was an) unbelievable race because the pace was so high all the time,” said Pedrosa.
“Finally a perfect result. I didn’t expect it at all,” he said, thanking his fans, family and doctors for their support.
“They know how hard it was for me this time. To come back and already win a race is an unbelievable feeling.” Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Meanwhile a three man battle for fourth ensued behind the leaders between Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini Team), Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda), Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Racing), out of which Italian Dovizioso crossed the line first 2 tenths of a second in front of American rider Spies and 4 tenths ahead of fellow countryman Simoncelli.
Another intense fight starred Álvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki) and the two Ducati Team riders Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi. Bautista crossed the line seventh with Hayden less than a tenth of a second behind the Spaniard and Rossi just 6 thousands behind the American, with of Colin Edwards (Tech 3 Yamaha Monster) following the trio in tenth. motogp.com
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