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Jorge Lorenzo won the San Marino GP at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli ahead of the two HRC riders Marc Marquez and Dan Pedrosa. Marquez started from Pole, but had a bad start, so Lorenzo was going into the lead. Also Pedrosa passed Marquez for 2nd place. But Marquez soon got the position back, what led to the story of the race. Pedrosa made a surprise move on Marcquez, but the 20 years old rider got the spot back afterwards. It was an fantastic battle. Lorenzo meanwhile had a 4 seconds lead to the two Honda riders and held that lead until the end. Bradl was following Crutchlow for more than 20 laps, before he overtoke the brit in the last lap for 5th place. Rossi had a solid 4th.

In CRT, Espargero was having a incredible Qualifying with 6th on the grid. But he made a jump start and had to make a ride through penalty. He ended being 2nd in the CRT class and 13th overall behind Forward Racing rider Colin Edwards.

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LCR Honda driver Stefan Bradl was starting the race from the pole, ahead of Marquez and Bautista.

Bradl then had a good start and lead the race from now on. Marquez struggled a bit and lost one position to Valentino Rossi on his Yamaha.

Marquez was faster than Rossi and already at the third lap he was doing a risky at the infamous Corkscrew corner and attempted his overtake on Rossi, first on the outside, in order that he gets to the inside in the right hander.

Marquez got passed and hunted Bradl down for 1st. Marquez was following Bradl for quite a long time and then finally made his overtake 14 laps before the end of the race.

Bradl knew he couldn’t go the pace of Marquez and settled for 2nd.

Meanwhile Bautista on his Gresini Honda was putting Rossi under pressure for 3rd until the end of the race.

Pedrosa had a battle with Lorenzo for 5th.

The two Ducati boys Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso were battling for 8th and even made contact on the start/finish straight.

Marquez just had a controlled race, getting pass CRT traffic and finally winning the race with an advantage of 2.2 seconds over Bradl.

Marquez is the youngest driver ever in MotoGP/500cc World Championship history to make back to back wins.

Rossi was 3rd, Bautista 4th. Crutchlow was on a disappointing 7th position.

CRT: Barbera wins in class

It looked like one of the Aspar drivers, especially Espargaro would win in CRT again.

But Espargero was having a driver error on the 5th lap and overturned. Teammate Randy De Puniet had early engine problems with his bike and had to retire.

So the win was between the FTR Kawasaki from Hector Barbera, Colin Edwards and De Angelis.

All three were battling for 10th overall and 1st in class, Barbera finally got the win.

His teammate Aoyama was 16th and nearly got to the points, but his broken hand impeded a point scoring position.

The next race is at the Indianapolis GP circuit on the 18th of August.

Full Results:

1	93	M. Marquez	Honda	Honda	44:00.695			32
2	6	S. Bradl	LCR	Honda	44:02.993	2.298		32
3	46	V. Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	44:05.193	4.498	2.200	32
4	19	A. Bautista	Gresini	Honda	44:05.252	4.557	0.059	32
5	26	D. Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	44:09.952	9.257	4.700	32
6	99	J. Lorenzo	Yamaha	Yamaha	44:13.665	12.970	3.713	32
7	35	C. Crutchlow	Tech 3	Yamaha	44:15.999	15.304	2.334	32
8	69	N. Hayden	Ducati	Ducati	44:34.658	33.963	18.659	32
9	4	A. Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	44:34.824	34.129	0.166	32
10	8	H. Barbera	Avintia	FTR-Kawasaki	45:03.064	1:02.369	28.240	32	CRT
11	15	A. de Angelis	Pramac	Ducati	45:03.299	1:02.604	0.235	32
12	5	C. Edwards	Forward	FTR-Kawasaki	45:04.288	1:03.593	0.989	32	CRT
13	9	D. Petrucci	Ioda	Suter-BMW	45:21.145	1:20.450	16.857	32	CRT
14	17	K. Abraham	Cardion	ART	44:05.885	1 Runde		31	CRT
15	68	Y. Hernandez	Paul Bird	ART	44:15.867	1 Runde		31	CRT
16	7	H. Aoyama	Avintia	FTR-Kawasaki	44:16.857	1 Runde		31	CRT
17	67	B. Staring	Gresini	FTR-Honda	44:25.931	1 Runde		31	CRT
18	52	L. Pesek	Ioda	Suter-BMW	45:06.444	1 Runde		31	CRT
DNF	38	B. Smith	Tech 3	Yamaha	9:51.183			7
DNF	41	A. Espargaro	Aspar	ART	7:03.642			5	CRT
DNF	14	R. de Puniet	Aspar	ART	5:46.737			4	CRT
DNF	71	C. Corti	Forward	FTR-Kawasaki	14:27.083			3	CRT
DNF	70	M. Laverty	Paul Bird	PBM	1:33.622			1	CRT