Valencia MotoGP Results

Honda’s Dani Pedrosa made a brilliant run from a pit lane start to victory at the Valencia MotoGP race earlier today.  The pit lane start was necessitated by Pedrosa’s switch from rain tires to slicks following the warm-up lap.  Pedrosa caught early race leader, and new champ, Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) midway through the race, and then passed him after Lorenzo suffered a huge highside crash (he appeared uninjured). Following Pedrosa home more than 1/2 a minute back was second place Katsuyuki Nakasuga (Yamaha) and third place Casey Stoner (Honda). Stoner also changed tires during the race.

Pos.	Points	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time/Gap
1	25	26	Dani PEDROSA	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	149.0	48’23.819
2	20	21	Katsuyuki NAKASUGA	JPN	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	147.0	+37.661
3	16	1	Casey STONER	AUS	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	145.9	+1’00.633
4	13	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	SPA	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	145.8	+1’02.811
5	11	51	Michele PIRRO	ITA	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	144.6	+1’26.608
6	10	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	144.5	+1’30.423
7	9	17	Karel ABRAHAM	CZE	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	144.4	+1’31.789
8	8	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	ITA	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	143.5	1 Lap
9	7	77	James ELLISON	GBR	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	143.1	1 Lap
10	6	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	142.9	1 Lap
11	5	41	Aleix ESPARGARO	SPA	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	141.1	1 Lap
12	4	14	Randy DE PUNIET	FRA	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	138.3	2 Laps
13	3	73	Hiroshi AOYAMA	JPN	Avintia Blusens	BQR	136.7	2 Laps
14	2	5	Colin EDWARDS	USA	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	132.6	3 Laps