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Stoner races away to take Catalan GP
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June 6, 2011, Monday
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AUSTRALIA'S Casey Stoner pulled away from championship leader Jorge Lorenzo to win the Catalunya Grand Prix yesterday, notching up his third win of the season.
The Honda rider hit the front at the end of the first lap and steadily extended his lead, the only apparent threat to his position coming from the gathering rain clouds which came close to forcing the riders to change to their wet-weather bikes.
Spaniard Lorenzo came in second ahead of Yamaha teammate Ben Spies of the United States.
Italian Marco Simoncelli, who had started on pole, was sixth behind compatriots Andrea Dovizioso (fourth) and Valentino Rossi (fifth).
World champion Lorenzo tops the riders' standings with 98 points from five races, seven ahead of Stoner who also won in Qatar and France.
Dovizioso climbed up to third with 63 points, two ahead of Dani Pedrosa who missed the race with a broken collarbone.
"Jorge got a very good start and I had to wait until the end of the first lap to attack him," 2007 world champion Stoner told Spanish television.
In Moto2, championship leader Stefan Bradl of Germany pulled 43 points clear at the top of the standings, the Kalex rider coming in ahead of Spaniards Marc Marquez and Aleix Espargaro.
Spaniard Nicolas Terol won the 125cc race after judges ruled Frenchman Johann Zarco had illegally pushed him off the track on the final bend. The championship leader, on an Aprilia, was followed by another Spaniard, Maverick Vinales, and Germany's Jonas Folger.
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