Jorge Lorenzo won his second straight Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday after Casey Stoner and Marco Simoncelli crashed on the wet track.
“It was a hard race but I am happy with the win,” Lorenzo said. “We had some luck, without the fall of Stoner we would not have won.”
The defending MotoGP champion was 19.339 seconds faster than fellow Spaniard Dani Pedrosa, who recovered after falling to ninth early on. American Nicky Hayden finished third, 29.085 seconds off the pace, at the 2.7-mile Jerez Circuit.
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“It was complicated, but I got a few breaks out there,” Hayden said. Westport-News
Rainy, slithery conditions helped give rise to a number of hair-raising incidents, including a spectacular fall on the seventh lap by six-time event winner Valentino Rossi of Ducati while pole-sitter Casey Stoner also came off his bike.
Ben Spies of Yamaha was another to find the going hard as he ended up in the gravel having stood second at one stage.
Marco Simoncelli of Honda also crashed, in his case after establishing a three second lead, as Lorenzo finished 19.4sec clear of 2008 winner Pedrosa in winning at the venue for the second straight year.
Rossi came in fifth ultimately but Stoner was unable to finish.
Hiroshi Aoyama of Honda took fourth for his best result in the class. AFP
Pos. Num. Rider Team Time/Gap 1 1 Jorge LORENZO Yamaha Factory Racing 50'49.046 2 26 Dani PEDROSA Repsol Honda Team 19.339 3 69 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati Team 29.085 4 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA San Carlo Honda Gresini 29.551 5 46 Valentino ROSSI Ducati Team +1'02.227 6 8 Hector BARBERA Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP +1'08.440 7 17 Karel ABRAHAM Cardion AB Motoracing +1'14.120 8 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW Monster Yamaha Tech 3 +1'19.110 9 24 Toni ELIAS LCR Honda MotoGP +1'42.906 10 21 John HOPKINS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP +1'48.395 11 65 Loris CAPIROSSI Pramac Racing Team +1'51.876 12 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSORepsol Honda Team 1 Lap Not Classified 5 Colin EDWARDS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1 Lap 11 Ben SPIES Yamaha Factory Racing 3 Laps 14 Randy DE PUNIET Pramac Racing Team 11 Laps 58 Marco SIMONCELLISan Carlo Honda Gresini 16 Laps
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