Race

Simoncelli and Dovizioso are still in there own presonal little battle that the former is winning for now

Stoner is driving like a man posessd to get past Lorenzo and it eventually pays off, getting round the inside before the long left-hand turn

Pedrosa stretches his lead out at the front

Stoner smelling blood now and is pushing up on Lorenzo but the Spaniard is holding him off for now

And there goes Pedrosa, Lorenzo with a mistake crossing the start/finish line as the front wheel comes up a bit and slows him down, Pedrosa into first

Pedrosa has moved well away from Stoner now and is on the tail of Lorenzo

Great action in the mid-field as Rossi does for Hayden on the inside but then can't capitalise as they get round the apex and then loses out to Hayden and Bautista who regains ninth place

Rossi heads down the inside of Bautista and now has Hayden in his sights in seventh

Simoncelli has a wobble on a left-hand turn and it costs him fourth spot as Dovizioso capitalises

Past the half-way point now and only 13 laps to go and Lorenzo is looking good out front, possibly the biggest lead of the race so far has been created

The start/finish line is where most of the overtaking is being done, nipping on the inside over the straight just in time for the right hand turn, just as Pedrosa did to Stoner

The front three are out away from the next two now, Stoner has dropped right off Lorenzo now as well and Pedrosa fancies second place, and there he goes to claim it

There goes Lorenzo as he squeezed through the tiniest of gaps to ahead of Stoner and into first

Simoncelli and Dovizioso having a great battle for fourth place, Simoncelli darted past him but Dovizioso tried to get past him on the straight through the starting line but couldn't quite manage it and Simoncelli takes fourth

Lorenzo is pushing hard now behind Stoner and is right on his tail, he can't quite get close enough to find the inside line though

Bautista having a go at the inside of Hayden but he can't quite make up the distance and he stays in eighth place

Rossi moves into ninth comfortably sliding down the inside of Edwards

21 laps to go now and Stoner is looking confident leading from the front, Lorenzo is in behind him and his main worry is fending off Pedrosa rather than gaining on Stoner

Pedrosa skips past Dovizioso on the inside of the first corner, there wasn't a lot of room but he executed it perfectly

Bautista leads the following pack ahead of Hayden, but they are some way off the group they are trying to catch

Simoncelli joining in with the leading four now whereas Spies is dropping off them a bit more now

Further down the field Valentino Rossi has dragged himself up to tenth spot and is looking to close in on Colin Edwards just ahead of him

It really is a front four with Simoncelli and Spies just behind them ready to pounce on any mistakes

Stoner back to where he started as he nips down the inside of Lorenzo and then the American burst away from him up the hill

It's Ben Spies behind the three Hondas but he doesn't look like challenging them just yet

Stoner has a look up the inside and does go past Pedrosa and then goes past Doviziosa

Lorenzo has opened up a noticeable lead but the three Hondas are a closely knit chasing pack

Dovizioso has made a cracking start to this race as he darts on the inside of Pedrosa and into second

As they come round the end of lap one Lorenzo in first ahead of Pedrosa and then Dovizioso in third

Lorenzo dives through the middle of the two hondas and into first place

Lorenzo with an equally good start and Stoner is back into third already

And they're off, Pedrosa with a cracking start straight into the lead

They're off out for their warm up lap, Jorge Lorenzo stalling his bike and needing a push start, not the perfect start

Championship leader Casey Stoner is on pole at Sachsenring as the ninth race of the MotoGP season gets underway.

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