Jorge Lorenzo has now become the first Yamaha racer to be victorious in three successive premier class events from pole position, since Eddie Lawson in 1986, after he claimed his fifth victory of the 2010 season at the Gran Premi Aperol de Catalunya on Sunday. The Spanish competitor is currently 52 points ahead at the top of the Championship rankings, as he continues his talented form claiming his second victory at home this year.

Respol Honda racer Dani Pedrosa has endured a rapid start and led into Turn 1 after shooting through from row two, however he then went wide coming out and dropped to ninth by the end of lap one. He managed to recover his error in the early laps before heading to third position.

Aleix Espargaró from Pramac Racing incurred a run-off as he worked hard to move forward and Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) created a battle for the lead with Lorenzo on lap three when he overtook him for first position, however Lorenzo regained his pace on the next lap.

Whilst chasing in third place, Casey Stoner for Ducati, ran off circuit shortly after and moved back to fifth as Randy de Puniet for LCR Honda and Pedrosa took advantage and came through, Espargaró crashed out at his home track on lap six.

Lap 14 was exciting as Marco Simoncelli for San Carlo Honda Gresini smashed out when in sixth spot. Then, Dovizioso also went down as he pushed his chase for Lorenzo out front, rejoining the race in 15th position not long afterwards.

Lorenzo was then clear by around 5.5s with less than half of the race left, Stoner and Pedrosa began challenging for second spot with De Puniet behind in fourth. Lorenzo’s lead was too much and he was over the line 4.754s ahead to claim his fifth victory of the year. Pedrosa won the battle for second by only two/tenths of a second from Stoner, the podium of the prior round at Assen was then repeated.

Fourth position went to De Puniet after another talented race on the satellite RC212V of the LCR Honda squad, and fifth was rookie Álvaro Bautista as he managed a fantastic effort on his Rizla Suzuki GSV-R.