Jorge Lorenzo took his first win of the 2009

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.

Lorenzo started turning the gas on and closing the gap on and by the 8th lap Lorenzo was just 0,2 from his Italian team mate and putting on the pressure, after a first unsuccessful out braking attempt but then tried again and this time made it stick putting himself in the lead.

Rossi seemed to suffer from lack of pace and was then Dani Pedrosa, who in the meantime came up behind him, exchanging places ensued, but ultimately Rossi got the best of Pedrosa at turn five heading into the tunnel and the Italian pulled away from Pedrosa, but Lorenzo was long gone, winning the race with a 1.3 second lead and his 2nd MotoGP victory.

Casey Stoner ran most of the race in 5th, but began matching the pace of the front racers and caught Andrea Dovizioso with 3 laps to go and finished 4th and Dovizioso 5th.

Sixth place went to a very suprising Marco Melandri with his Hayate. Loris Capirossi seventh after a bad start and falling back to 11th.

Mikka Kallio 8th and second best Ducati after a highside on Friday that left him with a sore ankle and 17th on the starting grid.

James Toseland went from 10th to seventh then back down to eighth to finish in 9th position. Vermeulen rounded out the top 10. Randy DePuniet 11th. Colin Edwards dropped from fifth to last and finished 12th. DeAngelis 13th and Canapa 14th.

Both Sete Gibernau and Toni Elias crashed out and both were able to get back in the race, but Sete had to retire and Elias finished 15th.

Full Race Results:

1. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Yamaha 43:47.238
2. Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 1.304
3. Daniel Pedrosa SPA Honda 3.763
4. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 5.691
5. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Honda 9.207
6. Marco Melandri ITA Kawasaki 30.555
7. Loris Capirossi ITA Suzuki 32.756
8. Mika Kallio FIN Ducati 39.416
9. James Toseland GBR Yamaha 43.106
10. Chris Vermeulen AUS Suzuki 43.245
11. Randy De Puniet FRA Honda 44.834
12. Colin Edwards USA Yamaha 46.540
13. Alex De Angelis ITA Honda 53.525
14. Niccolo Canepa ITA Ducati 1:21.804
15. Toni Elías SPA Honda 1 LAP(S)
16. Sete Gibernau SPA Ducati 7 LAP(S)