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After qualifying in pole position for the third consecutive race, Jorge Lorenzo has taken his first win at the Portuguese Grand Prix.

At the start of the race, Pedrosa and Rossi shot ahead of Lorenzo by the first corner. Rossi soon took the lead from Pedrosa with Lorenzo also taking advantage. Lorenzo went onto take the Fiat Yamaha rider Rossi before the end of lap one. Rossi then took the lead position back on lap two. Pedrosa finally passed Rossi on lap fifteen and made it stick.

Rossi slowly slipped further back after a mere three laps of sticking with the front two riders and by the end of the race he was eleven seconds behind Pedrosa. Rossi had hoped to fight for his first Bridgestone victory this weekend but was seen struggling to match the Michelin riders.

Pedrosa was struggling to keep up with Lorenzo who managed to stay just out of reach and maintained a one second lead right to the end.

Lorenzo and Pedrosa are now both on equal points at the top of the Championship standings.

The JiR Scot Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso looked as if he would take the fourth place after sticking with the top three until lap sixteen when he crashed out passing the position to Nicky Hayden on the Repsol Honda, until he crashed out on the following lap.

Colin Edwards finally took fourth place on the Tech-3 Yamaha followed by John Hopkins on the Kawasaki and Ducati Marlboro man, Casey Stoner.

By lap nine, Stoner had dropped out of the top ten but improved by retaking some of the lost places on the next twelve laps despite having a problem with loose technical equipment knocking against his fairing, finishing only two seconds behind Hopkins.

James Toseland was in the thick of the action as he battled with Stoner, de Puniet and Vermeulen.

Here are the results;

Pos  Rider             Bike           Time
 1.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha    (M)  45:53.089
 2.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda     (M)  +   1.817
 3.  Valentino Rossi   Yamaha    (B)  +  12.723
 4.  Colin Edwards     Yamaha    (M)  +  17.223
 5.  John Hopkins      Kawasaki  (B)  +  23.752
 6.  Casey Stoner      Ducati    (B)  +  26.688
 7.  James Toseland    Yamaha    (M)  +  32.631
 8.  Chris Vermeulen   Suzuki    (B)  +  36.382
 9.  Loris Capirossi   Suzuki    (B)  +  38.268
10.  Shinya Nakano     Honda     (B)  +  39.476
11.  Alex de Angelis   Honda     (B)  +1:01.306
12.  Toni Elias        Ducati    (B)  +1:03.867
13.  Marco Melandri    Ducati    (B)  +1:09.525
14.  Sylvain Guintoli  Ducati    (B)  +1:09.634
15.  Randy de Puniet   Honda     (M)  +1:11.542
16.  Anthony West      Kawasaki  (B)  +1:23.629

Retirements:

     Rider             Bike           Laps
     Nicky Hayden      Honda     (M)  16
     Andrea Dovizioso  Honda     (M)  15

250cc

Alvaro Bautista on the Aprilia took victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix after taking the lead on lap one which has now moved him from eleventh to fifth in the Championship running,

Marco Simoncelli on the Gilera took second place as his soft-compound tyres started to wear. He was passed on the finish line by Mika Kallio on the KTM but there was contact between then allowing Simoncelli to take the position.

When Pasini and Debon crashed out it left the fourth place to be filled by Thomas Luthi had got faster as the race went on and overtook Hiroshi Aoyama and Yuki Takahashi.

Here are the results;

1 Alvaro Bautista (Spa) Aprilia 44mins 34.257secs

2 Marco Simoncelli (Ita) Gilera 44:41.307

3 Mika Kallio (Fin) KTM 44:41.320

4 Thomas Luthi (Swi) Aprilia 44:47.255

5 Hiroshi Aoyama (Jpn) KTM 44:48.923

6 Yuki Takahashi (Jpn) Honda 44:52.755

7 Julian Simon (Spa) KTM 45:01.069

8 Hector Barbera (Spa) Aprilia 45:02.269

9 Hector Faubel (Spa) Aprilia 45:02.545

10 Lukas Pesek (Cze) Aprilia 45:11.223

11 Aleix Espargaro (Spa) Aprilia 45:12.55

12 Alex Baldolini (Ita) Aprilia 45:26.327

13 Ratthapark Wilairot (Tha) Honda 45:47.560

14 Federico Sandi (Ita) Yamaha 45:51.849

15 Eugene Laverty (Gbr) Aprilia 45:55.620

125cc

The winner of the 125cc Grand Prix at Estoril was Simone Corsi on his Jack & Jones Aprilia after being in pole position in qualifying,

Joan Olive on the Belson Derbi was in second position with Corsi’s teammate Nicolas Terol in third. Fourth place man was Steve Bonsey followed by the British rider Danny Webb who took the fifth spot.

Bradley Smith on the Polaris World Aprilia, overtook Terol on lap thirteen to take third place but crashed out seconds later with a high side into the gravel but looked unhurt as stewards walked him away.

Here are the results;

Pos  Rider              Bike           Time
 1.  Simone Corsi       Aprilia   40:56.168
 2.  Joan Olive         Derbi    +    0.299
 3.  Nicolas Terol      Aprilia  +    6.355
 4.  Steve Bonsey       Aprilia  +   14.973
 5.  Daniel Webb        Aprilia  +   15.532
 6.  Gabor Talmacsi     Aprilia  +   15.868
 7.  Mike Di Meglio     Derbi    +   15.875
 8.  Stefan Bradl       Aprilia  +   17.887
 9.  Sergio Gadea       Aprilia  +   18.123
10.  Sandro Cortese     Aprilia  +   22.613
11.  Andrea Iannone     Aprilia  +   27.490
12.  D.Agerter          Derbi    +   27.544
13.  Pol Espargaro      Derbi    +   28.370
14.  Michael Ranseder   Aprilia  +   28.417
15.  Efren Vazquez      Aprilia  +   32.713
16.  Tomoyoshi Koyama   KTM      +   34.002
17.  Stefano Bianco     Aprilia  +   47.698
18.  Marc Marquez       KTM      +   51.637
19.  Takaaki Nakagami   Aprilia  +   51.679
20.  Alexis Masbou      Loncin   +   51.717
21.  Scott Redding      Aprilia  + 1:07.908
22.  Pere Tutusaus      Aprilia  + 1:15.894
23.  Dino Lombardi      Aprilia  + 1:19.975
24.  Robert Muresan     Aprilia  + 1:39.194
25.  Cyril Carrillo     Honda    + 1:39.218
26.  Axel Pons          Aprilia  + 1:43.956
27.  Ivan Maestro       Aprilia  +    1 lap
28.  Karel Pesek        Aprilia  +    1 lap

NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS:

     Rider              Bike      On lap
     Bradley Smith      Aprilia     13
     Lorenzo Zanetti    KTM         13
     Pablo Nieto        KTM         12
     Jules Cluzel       Loncin       9
     Esteve Rabat       KTM          8
     Raffaele De Rosa   KTM          7
     H.van den Berg     Aprilia      1

FASTEST LAP: Corsi, 1:45.557 on lap 10