Jorge Lorenzo takes maiden victory in Estoril

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2008-04-13 Jorge Lorenzo takes maiden victory in Estoril
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After three pole positions and close battling at the top in previous races, Jorge Lorenzo today impressed everyone by taking maiden MotoGP victory in Estoril. Lorenzo was initial leader of the race, but soon he had to let this position to charging Rossi, who tried to make early break. However, Rossi was unable to make this break in first part of the race, and had to let first Lorenzo and then Pedrosa in front. From that point, Lorenzo started setting hot laps and making gap to Pedrosa, finishing race 1.8 seconds in front of him. Pedrosa had no answer to low 1.37 laps set by Lorenzo, and had to settle in second place, more than 10 seconds in front of Rossi. Rossi was once again best Bridgestone finisher, but once again he was unable to follow lap times set by Spanish duo of Pedrosa and Lorenzo.

Colin Edwards finished in lonely 4th place, making three Yamahas in top 4. John Hopkins set best result of the season for Kawasaki by taking 5th place, three seconds clear of MotoGP champion Casey Stoner in not so bad 6th place. Stoner had varying race, starting as 9th, then dropping to 11th place and finally recovering to 6th place. This place was also partialy result of crashes in front, which included Hayden and Dovizioso, and Randy de Puniet who managed to rejoin race and finish it in 15th.

James Toseland was unable to fight-back Stoner and finished race in 7th place, in front of Vermeulen, who was best Suzuki today. Loris Capirossi was 9th, with Shinya Nakano finishing race as last rider in top 10.

After 3rd race, Jorge Lorenzo jumped to joined first place in the championship, having same number of points as Dani Pedrosa. Valentino Rossi jumped to 3rd place, 14 points behind Spanish duo, and 7 points in front of reigning MotoGP champion, Casey Stoner.

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