Jorge Lorenzo has overcome a strong challenge from countryman Dani Pedrosa to take his third win of the season in the Catalan Grand Prix.
The factory riders from Yamaha and Honda swapped the lead on several occasions throughout the race, before Lorenzo made the winning move with less than six laps remaining.
Pedrosa, who had found himself more than a second in front midrace after a small mistake from his rival, had no answer in the closing laps, eventually taking the flag 5.0s adrift.
Andrea Dovizioso scored his first podium of the season by holding off a late charge from Casey Stoner.
The pole-sitting Stoner dropped to as low as sixth in the opening laps, eventually missing the podium for the first time in 14 months.
Cal Crutchlow made it three Yamahas in the top five, while Alvaro Bautista, Valentino Rossi, Stefan Bradl, Nicky Hayden and Ben Spies completed the top 10.
Spies’ afternoon went awry when he fell to the back of the field while trying to take the lead from Pedrosa on the third lap.
Lorenzo now holds a 20 point lead over Stoner after five of 18 races, with Pedrosa a further 10 points adrift in third.
See below for the full race result
|
Pos. |
Rider |
Team |
Bike |
Km/h |
Time/Gap |
|
1 |
Jorge LORENZO | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha |
164.4 |
43’07.681 |
|
2 |
Dani PEDROSA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda |
164.1 |
+5.003 |
|
3 |
Andrea DOVIZIOSO | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha |
163.8 |
+9.361 |
|
4 |
Casey STONER | Repsol Honda Team | Honda |
163.8 |
+9.544 |
|
5 |
Cal CRUTCHLOW | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha |
163.6 |
+12.506 |
|
6 |
Alvaro BAUTISTA | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda |
163.5 |
+13.948 |
|
7 |
Valentino ROSSI | Ducati Team | Ducati |
163.3 |
+17.555 |
|
8 |
Stefan BRADL | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda |
162.9 |
+23.478 |
|
9 |
Nicky HAYDEN | Ducati Team | Ducati |
162.5 |
+30.410 |
|
10 |
Ben SPIES | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha |
162.3 |
+32.897 |
|
11 |
Hector BARBERA | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati |
162.1 |
+36.144 |
|
12 |
Karel ABRAHAM | Cardion AB Motoracing | Ducati |
160.9 |
+56.229 |
|
13 |
Aleix ESPARGARO | Power Electronics Aspar | ART |
160.2 |
+1’08.054 |
|
14 |
Michele PIRRO | San Carlo Honda Gresini | FTR |
160.1 |
+1’08.775 |
|
15 |
Randy DE PUNIET | Power Electronics Aspar | ART |
160.0 |
+1’10.483 |
|
16 |
James ELLISON | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART |
159.9 |
+1’13.090 |
|
17 |
Mattia PASINI | Speed Master | ART |
159.4 |
+1’20.903 |
|
18 |
Yonny HERNANDEZ | Avintia Blusens | BQR |
159.4 |
+1’21.235 |
|
19 |
Danilo PETRUCCI | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda |
158.2 |
+1’41.207 |
|
20 |
Ivan SILVA | Avintia Blusens | BQR |
158.2 |
+1’41.888 |
|
21 |
Colin EDWARDS | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | Suter |
151.5 |
1 Lap |
See below for the updated points standings
|
Pos. |
Rider |
Points |
| 1 | Jorge LORENZO | 115 |
| 2 | Casey STONER | 95 |
| 3 | Dani PEDROSA | 85 |
| 4 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | 60 |
| 5 | Cal CRUTCHLOW | 56 |
| 6 | Valentino ROSSI | 51 |
| 7 | Alvaro BAUTISTA | 45 |
| 8 | Stefan BRADL | 43 |
| 9 | Nicky HAYDEN | 40 |
| 10 | Hector BARBERA | 31 |
| 11 | Ben SPIES | 24 |
| 12 | Aleix ESPARGARO | 15 |
| 13 | Randy DE PUNIET | 7 |
| 14 | Mattia PASINI | 6 |
| 15 | Michele PIRRO | 6 |
| 16 | James ELLISON | 5 |
| 17 | Karel ABRAHAM | 4 |
| 18 | Colin EDWARDS | 4 |
| 19 | Danilo PETRUCCI | 4 |
| 20 | Yonny HERNANDEZ | 3 |
| 21 | Ivan SILVA | 1 |
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