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Next up for MotoGP, it's the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in two weeks time, we hope you can join us for that.
That's it from AUTOSPORT's Live coverage of the MotoGP races at Brno, thanks for joining us for three excellent races.
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Lorenzo: "The weather was warming up compared to the warm up [this morning] so I was worried about the end of the race.
"But I had a little bit more pace than Marquez and could take an important victory for the championship."
"But I had a little bit more pace than Marquez and could take an important victory for the championship."
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Marquez: "Today I knew it would be really difficult to win the race but my target was to be in front of Valentino and we did [it].
"We did the maximum and I'm really happy for the team."
"We did the maximum and I'm really happy for the team."
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Rossi: "I was not fast enough to stay with them [Lorenzo and Marquez] today."
Lorenzo leaps into the arms of his mechanics in parc ferme - he looks ecstatic with his victory today.
Lorenzo and Rossi are now level in the championship standings with 211 points each. But Lorenzo takes the lead for the first time this year on victory count-back.
Lorenzo takes Yamaha's first win at Brno since 2010.
Lorenzo celebrates his fifth win of the season by leaping from a tyre barrier into the gravel.
Here's the Czech MotoGP top ten:
1 Lorenzo
2 Marquez
3 Rossi
4 Iannone
5 Pedrosa
6 Dovizioso
7 Smith
8 Pol Espargaro
9 Aleix Espargaro
10 Petrucci.
1 Lorenzo
2 Marquez
3 Rossi
4 Iannone
5 Pedrosa
6 Dovizioso
7 Smith
8 Pol Espargaro
9 Aleix Espargaro
10 Petrucci.
Marquez comes home second, Rossi third and Iannone is fourth. Pedrosa, despite a comeback from Dovizioso in the final corners, repels the Ducati and holds onto fifth place.
Checkered flag
Jorge Lorenzo wins the Czech MotoGP at Brno!
Pedrosa takes fifth from Dovizoso at Turn 5.
Last lap for leader Lorenzo.
Pedrosa nips past Dovizioso at Turn 13, but the Ducati blasts back through on the next straight.
Pedrosa is right with Dovizioso in the fight for fifth.
Two laps left of the Czech MotoGP at Brno - Lorenzo leads by 3.4s. Marquez has stolen a tenth of a second back from the leader but it looks like being too little, too late.
Replays show Pedrosa ran very deep in Turn 13 and the Spaniard did well not to let his Honda slide into the gravel on the exit of the corner.
Three laps to go for Lorenzo and his gap over Marquez is now 3.5s, with Rossi a further 5.8s adrift.
Pedrosa has a serious look up the inside of Dovizioso at Turn 10, but the Ducati rider swings the gap shut and maintains fifth.
Pedrosa is just 0.1s behind Dovizioso in their battle for fifth place with four laps to go - that's brave riding considering his huge accident on Friday.
Lorenzo's gap is above three seconds for the first time, it looks like the Yamaha rider is going to take his fifth win of the 2015 season.
Lorenzo leads Marquez by 2.9s seconds with five laps to go in the Czech MotoGP.
Vinales has also crashed at Turn 11. Like Crutchlow before him, the Suzuki rider lost the front end and slid into the gravel and out of the race.
Pedrosa has caught the Ducati battle for fourth place.
Lorenzo now leads Marquez by 2.5s with seven laps to go.
Crutchlow had been running in tenth place before the front end of the bike slid from underneath the British rider and he's out of the race.
Crutchlow has crashed at Turn 11.
If the top three finish the race in their current order, Lorenzo and Rossi would be level at the head of the championship standings on 211 points.
Lorenzo's gap is up to 2.3s over Marquez at the head of the race.
With nine laps to go, here's the top ten:
1 Lorenzo
2 Marquez
3 Rossi
4 Iannone
5 Dovizioso
6 Pedrosa
7 Smith
8 Pol Espargaro
9 Vinales
10 Crutchlow
1 Lorenzo
2 Marquez
3 Rossi
4 Iannone
5 Dovizioso
6 Pedrosa
7 Smith
8 Pol Espargaro
9 Vinales
10 Crutchlow
Pedrosa is up to sixth place. He's 0.9s behind Dovizioso and catching the Ducati rider by three tenths per lap.
Marquez steals a tenth back from Lorenzo in the middle of lap 12, but he's still 1.7s behind.
Rossi went seven hundredths of a second quicker than Marquez for the first time in the race on the last lap, but the championship leader is already 5.7s behind the Honda rider.
Lorenzo's advantage is up to 1.8s over Marquez.
Lorenzo has medium tyres on the front and at the rear, whereas Marquez has a harder rear tyre - will that bring the reigning world champion back in play towards the end of the race?
Iannone leads his teammate Dovizioso by just 0.5s as they scrap over fourth place.
With 13 laps to go, Lorenzo has got his lead over one second for the first time, he's steadily easing away from Marquez.
At the start of lap nine, Lorenzo has increased his lead to 0.7s over Marquez.
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