Full qualifying times from the British MotoGP, round five of the 2010 world championship. Dani Pedrosa fell in the closing seconds, was clipped by his own bike and had to be carried away (conscious) on a stretcher.
The first Italian MotoGP since 2000 to take place without Valentino Rossi has been won by Dani Pedrosa, who dominated the 23-lap race for his and Honda's first victory of the 2010 season.
Race results from the French MotoGP, round three of the 2010 world championship. Casey Stoner crashed out early in the race, shortly after taking fourth from team-mate Nicky Hayden. Alvaro Bautista withdrew on Saturday due to his injured shoulder.
After dropping to fifth in the early stages of his home Spanish Grand Prix, Jorge Lorenzo clawed his way back towards the front of the field - then snatched victory from arch-rival Dani Pedrosa with half a lap to go!
Casey Stoner's hopes of a fourth consecutive Qatar Grand Prix victory came to an abrupt end when the Australian crashed out of the lead early in Sunday's 2010 season-opener.
Winter testing is all about finding, and hopefully increasing, the limits of a motorcycle before the new racing season begins - so how does a MotoGP bike feel when it is being pushed to the edge?
Mika Kallio was holding a potential MotoGP best of sixth in the early stages of Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix, before losing the front of his Pramac Ducati through the long final turn on lap six of 28.
Ten days after team principal Paolo Campinoti revealed that Mika Kallio would stay at Pramac Ducati for the 2010 MotoGP season (see previous story) an agreement with the Finnish star has been officially confirmed.
Mika Kallio and Marco Melandri each felt the other was to blame for their spectacular clash in the closing stages of Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix at Brno.
MotoGP rookie Niccolo Canepa literally didn't know what hit him during a spectacular accident at the end of Saturday's wet qualifying session at the Sachsenring.
When MotoGP rookie Mika Kallio crashed on the last lap at Assen last weekend, his Pramac Ducati landed on his ring finger, tearing off the finger nail. It will never re-grow, and in August he will have a skin graft from his hip to cover the end of the finger.
MotoGP rookie Mika Kallio was just a few corners away from scoring a career best sixth place in Saturday's Dutch TT at Assen, when he crashed at high speed and badly injured his left ring finger, putting him in doubt for next weekend's US GP at Laguna Seca.