MotoGP: Lorenzo crashes out of season-ender

MotoGP champion suffered a spectacular crash with around 17 laps remaining.

VALENCIA: World MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo was denied a victorious finish to the season when he suffered a spectacular crash with around 17 laps remaining of yesterday’s Valencia Grand Prix. The Spanish Yamaha rider, who clinched his second world title two weeks ago at Phillip Island in Australia, lost control of his machine and catapulted off the track to leave Dani Pedrosa with a comfortable lead over Briton Cal Crutchlow. Pedrosa, who started from pole on his Honda, was followed across the line by Yamaha’s Katsuyuki Nakasuga with Stoner, Australia’s 2011 world champion, competing for the final time before retirement, in third.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 12^th, 2012.