Italian Andrea Dovizioso won the San Marino Grand Prix for Ducati while reigning world champion Honda's Marc Marquez finished second to increase his MotoGP championship lead to 67 points.
The Ducatis made a fine start and immediately started working on building a lead, knowing Marquez would have to battle his way forward before he could hunt them down but in front Dovizioso controlled the race and won without any emotions.
Ducati's Jorge Lorenzo, who had started on pole position at the Marco Simoncelli circuit on Italy's Adriatic coast, crashed out on the penultimate lap while heading for a Ducati one-two finish.
That lifted Britain's Cal Crutchlow to third as the leading non-factory finisher on an LCR-Honda.
Local favourite Valentino Rossi managed only a distant seventh for Yamaha and lost second place overall to Dovizioso who now has 154 points to the reining world champion Spaniard Marquez's 221 with six races remaining. Rossi has 151.
The Ducatis made a fine start and immediately started working on building a lead, knowing Marquez would have to battle his way forward before he could hunt them down but in front Dovizioso controlled the race and won without any emotions.
Ducati's Jorge Lorenzo, who had started on pole position at the Marco Simoncelli circuit on Italy's Adriatic coast, crashed out on the penultimate lap while heading for a Ducati one-two finish.
That lifted Britain's Cal Crutchlow to third as the leading non-factory finisher on an LCR-Honda.
Local favourite Valentino Rossi managed only a distant seventh for Yamaha and lost second place overall to Dovizioso who now has 154 points to the reining world champion Spaniard Marquez's 221 with six races remaining. Rossi has 151.
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