Jorge Lorenzo bagged the Le Mans MotoGp World Championship marking his second victory of the season and extended his world championship lead to nine points. Teammate Rossi secured second position while Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso finished the podium positions.

Even though Rossi had a super start after starting from pole, he couldn’t hold on to it for too long as his teammate Lorenzo managed to slip past without much difficulty only to ride with unmatched skill to maintain a four second lead to keep his position right till the end.

Last few laps saw much excitement and a constant battle between the two Honda teammates and Ducati rider Nicky Hayden. Pedrosa, who tried hard to hold on to third for a long time made some crucial mistakes to first let teammate Dovizioso go past and then letting Hayden go in for fourth only to finish fifth himself.

Didn’t turn out to be a good race for Casey Stoner as the Ducati ace rider crashed out at Turn 6, after the second lap itself making this his second non-finish of the season. Soon after that Monster Yamaha Tech3 rider Ben Spies race was over because of a mechanical failure and Capirossi (Rizla Suzuki) also went down to interrupt his race.

Pos  Rider             Team                 Time/Gap
 1.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha             44m29.114s
 2.  Valentino Rossi   Yamaha               + 5.672s
 3.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda                + 7.872s
 4.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati               + 9.346s
 5.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda               + 12.613s
 6.  Marco Melandri    Gresini Honda       + 21.918s
 7.  Randy de Puniet   LCR Honda           + 29.288s
 8.  Hector Barbera    Aspar Ducati        + 33.128s
 9.  Aleix Espargaro   Pramac Ducati       + 33.493s
10.  Marco Simoncelli  Gresini Honda       + 33.805s
11.  Hiroshi Aoyama    Interwetten Honda   + 34.346s
12.  Colin Edwards     Tech 3 Yamaha       + 37.123s
13.  Mika Kallio       Pramac Ducati       + 55.061s

Retirements:

     Loris Capirossi   Suzuki             6 laps
     Ben Spies         Tech 3 Yamaha      6 laps
     Casey Stoner      Ducati             2 laps