MotoGP's Valencia finale
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By: Mitchell Adam
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That brings our live coverage to a close. Thanks for tuning in today and during the 2016 season. We'll have more from Valencia today, and this week as testing for 2017 starts.
Barbera, Petrucci, Bradl, Redding and Miller completed the points. We lost Kallio (electronics) and Crutchlow, Pedrosa and Hernandez to crashes.
Off the podium, Rossi and Vinales were fourth and fifth, with Pol Espargaro rounding up Dovizioso in the closing laps to take sixth. Then it was Aleix Espargaro in eighth, while Smith and Bautista completed the top 10.
Marquez doesn't have a race win to celebrate today, but with his fan club and home crowd here he's decided to do a fairly manic second title celebration instead. A man dressed as a giant hand (yep, fifth world title, 'give me five', etc) is helping him.
In rather contrasting scenes, fourth-placed finisher Rossi gets off his Yamaha in the garage and quietly sits down.
In rather contrasting scenes, fourth-placed finisher Rossi gets off his Yamaha in the garage and quietly sits down.
Pol Espargaro managed to grab sixth on the line, somehow managing to beat Dovizioso's Ducati in a drag race.
Aleix Espargaro, Smith and Bautista complete the top 10.
Aleix Espargaro, Smith and Bautista complete the top 10.
Lorenzo says goodbye to Yamaha with his first victory since Mugello in May, staying just far enough ahead of the charging Marquez.
And if Rossi wants the final podium spot, he's going to have to be very creative in the twisty bits to beat Iannone.
Onto the last lap, Lorenzo looks like he's still far enough ahead to win this even with a ropey tyre - the gap 1.7s now.
Rossi steams down the inside of Iannone, who retaliates firmly on the exit of the corner and then makes it past again into the next turn.
Further back, Iannone is still keeping Rossi off the podium. They've made a break over fifth-placed Vinales.
For most of this race, Lorenzo has been entirely on his own whenever picked up by the TV cameras. Marquez now very clearly has him in sight.
Lorenzo's lead is down to 2.6s over Marquez with three laps to go, this could be a very, very tight finish given the rate at which the Honda is gaining.
Once in the podium fight, sixth-placed Dovizioso is now coming under heavy pressure from the Espargaro family.
Slow-motion video footage suggest Lorenzo's starting to run into tyre trouble - clear graining on his front Michelin.
Just six laps to go, and Lorenzo is still in command but the margin is reducing a bit. Marquez is within 3.5s of him now.
Rossi is up to third ahead of Iannone again, but has to work pretty hard to keep the Ducati from immediately retaliating.
Kallio has brought the KTM into the pits and is parked up explaining a problem to his crew. Not a great debut in the end.
Marquez is managing to get away from Iannone a bit - he's sufficiently clear to hold second on the front straight even as the Ducati gains.
Just behind them, Vinales is taking quite a few looks at Rossi for fourth.
Just behind them, Vinales is taking quite a few looks at Rossi for fourth.
Marquez squeezes Iannone aside into the final corner and tries to hold him out wide so the Ducati can't get a run on the straight.
It doesn't work - Iannone still blasts past again. But a very bold move at Turns 2 and 3 gets Marquez back into second.
It doesn't work - Iannone still blasts past again. But a very bold move at Turns 2 and 3 gets Marquez back into second.
Very, very, very close between Iannone, Rossi and Marquez for second, third and fourth still - until they reach the pits straight and the Ducati scorches away.
Crutchlow is walking away looking pretty miserable but unhurt. He'd been struggling to make any headway up the top 10 after his fraught qualifying yesterday.
Just when it looked like second was probably in Rossi's pocket, Iannone is back on him and into second again. Rossi immediately replies but can't quite make it stick. Marquez lurks millimetres behind them.
Kallio is 20th and the last of the runners, the KTM now nearly 5s behind Rabat. That bike has been struggling with rear grip all weekend, especially putting the power down, so it's going to be a long run from here for the Finn.
Behind this fight for second, Pol and Aleix Espargaro are seventh and eighth, ahead of Crutchlow and Smith. Bautista is 11th, with Petrucci, Barbera, Redding and Miller currently the top 15.
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