Lorenzo Land at Motegi

Jorge Lorenzo took his first win of the 2009 season today at Motegi .
It was unusual fast start for Valentino Rossi who started leading the pack at turn 1 ahead of Chris Vemeulen and an excellent Dani Pedrosa who started 11th on the grid and Casey Stoner who dropped from second to fourth and Jorge Lorenzo from third to fifth.

On the first turn, Scot Honda rider Yuki Takahashi took out Nicky Hayden, fortunately for both riders there were no serious injuries, even if Hayden took another bruising to his back, but Dr.
Claudio Costa has said that Hayden will be back at Jerez.

By the end of the first lap the Spaniard was back to third, first overtaking Vemeulen and then Pedrosa and then started stalking Valentino Rossi who was already two seconds ahead of him.