Jorge Lorenzo won a ferocious last
lap duel with Marc Marquez to clinch victory at Mugello, where Valentino Rossi
face ended in bitter disappointment with an engine failure. Italian hero Rossi
had been shadowing his Movistar Yamaha team-mate Lorenzo in second place when
his race came to an unceremonious end on lap nine, when he was forced to park
up his smoking factory M1.
It was the second engine blow up to
hit Yamaha on Sunday after Lorenzo bike suffered a similar fate during morning
warm-up. As Lorenzo and Marquez engaged in a game of cat and mouse at the front,
Andrea Lannone who was down in 10th place following the opening lap
after blowing his front row start was on the move and came through to take
third from his Ducati team-mate Andrea Dovizioso.
Dani Pedrosa also came on strong in
the second part of the race and became embroiled in a battle with Lannone,
although the Italian rider prevailed to seal the final place on the podium.
Lorenzo and Marquez traded passes on a nail biting final lap and it looked as
though the Honda rider had managed to make the decisive move to lead out of the
final corner onto the main straight, but Lorenzo managed to draft past on the
blast to the line to win in dramatic style.
Dovizioso finished fifth on the
second of the factory Ducati GP16 machines, with Maverick Vinales sixth on the
Ecstar Suzuki. Spaniard Vinales also blew his start and had to fight his way
through from 11th place on the GSX-RR. It was Rossi second DNF of
the season after he crashed out in Texas and he is now 37 points behind Lorenzo
after the first six rounds.
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