Marc Marquez (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMaverick Vinales was fourth, with the heroic Valentino Rossi battling valiantly for fifth. Andrea Dovizioso lost valuable ground in the title race after fading away to a P7 finish, collecting just nine points in the process.<\/p>\n
Lorenzo stormed into the lead from the middle of the front row with Doviziso moving up to third early on as Vinales ran wide at Turn 16.<\/p>\n
Rossi, competing just three weeks after breaking his leg, was then in hot pursuit of leader Lorenzo, setting the then fastest lap of the race to halve the deficit to half a second.<\/p>\n
The top four of Lorenzo, Rossi, Doviziso, Marquez began to break away as Vinales struggled for pace in P5 and a big train of riders began to form behind him.<\/p>\n
Lap 6 brought the first crash of the afternoon as Karel Abraham got a little too greedy at Turn 8. Seconds later, Marquez managed to get the jump on Dovizioso to move up to P3.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard then tried a daring move on Rossi at Turn 12 but overshot the corner and re-joined the race in P4 and back behind Dovizioso again.<\/p>\n
That did not last long, however, as Marquez soon inched out the Italian at Turn 16\/17 to take P3 once more.<\/p>\n
With 12 laps ago, Lorenzo started to build up a narrow lead again out in front as Rossi began to fade.<\/p>\n
Marquez was hot on Rossi\u2019s heels and produced a carbon copy of his initial overtake on Dovizioso to jump up to P2.<\/p>\n
As Marquez got to within a couple of tenths of leader Lorenzo, Pedrosa began to come alive from P5 and took full advantage of Dovizioso running wide at Turn 16.<\/p>\n
Back out in front, meanwhile, Marquez made a brilliant overtake on Lorenzo stick at Turn 12, before Lorenzo went briefly ahead again until he overran the corner.<\/p>\n
Pedrosa chewed up Rossi to rise to P3 and was just a second and a half behind behind leader Marquez with six laps to go.<\/p>\n
Cal Crutchlow then crashed out from P10, while Dovizioso dropped to P6 after Vinales swooped in when Dovizioso ran wide trying to get ahead of Rossi.<\/p>\n
Vinales then got the better of Rossi in a ding-dong battle for P4 as Dovizioso slipped even further down the pecking order to P7 as Aleix Espargaro overtook him.<\/p>\n
Pedrosa nabbed second from Lorenzo at Turn 12 and had two laps to chase down Marquez, but the latter kept a stable one-second lead all the way to the checkered flag and bagged a fourth win in six races.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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