WRC Italy, Barcelona MotoGP
By: Matt Beer, Jack Benyon, David Evans, AUTOSPORT staff, Mark Glendenning, Peter Mills, Alex Kalinauckas
Summary
Keep an eye on our news pages for all the Le Mans, MotoGP and WRC follow-up news over the coming days, plus IndyCar and NASCAR race reports later today.
Our live coverage resumes with Austrian Grand Prix Formula 1 practice on Friday morning.
The Fortec driver was being investigated for a possible yellow flag infringement.
It was pretty extraordinary how much ground that pair lost off the line, they were virtually outside the top 10 by Turn 1.
He's sorted for Barcelona - his fan club provide a comedy oversized mallet with his logo on it. Nice work.
1 Lorenzo
2 Rossi
3 Pedrosa
4 Iannone
5 Smith
6 Vinales
7 Redding
8 Bradl
9 Petrucci
10 Bautista
11 Miller
12 Laverty
13 Baz
14 di Meglio
15 de Angelis
16 Barbera
Out: A Espargaro, Hayden, Melandri, Dovizioso, Marquez, Crutchlow, Hernandez
Didn't start: Abraham
He's walking away very frustrated with himself.
Rossi remains 1.364s behind Lorenzo with four laps to go.
In the lead, Rossi still can't get closer than 1.7s to Lorenzo with seven laps left.
As they reach Turn 4, the Suzuki gets the spot for now at least.
Smith is holding off Iannone for fifth, Redding is resisting Vinales for seventh.
1 Lorenzo
2 Rossi
3 Pedrosa
4 A Espargaro
5 Smith
6 Iannone
7 Redding
8 Vinales
9 Petrucci
10 Bradl
11 Miller
12 Bautista
13 Laverty
14 di Meglio
15 Baz
16 Barbera
17 de Angelis
18 Hayden
And that moves Espargaro's Suzuki back into a podium position.
The Suzuki was running very wide into Turn 1 and ushered Crutchlow off the road.
Vinales is only 11th, though.
That's his third crash in the last four grands prix.
Meanwhile Rossi is passing Dovizioso for second to make it a Yamaha one-two.
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