Fiat Yamaha's Valentino Rossi was handed the Brno MotoGP win in the Czech Republic this afternoon as team-mate Jorge Lorenzo crashed out of the lead with five laps to go.

The Spaniard had gone past The Doctor a lap before, sliding underneath the identical YZR-M1 on the brakes, and Rossi tucked in behind to see where his team-mate was quickest.

At the same corner one circuit later, Rossi went to go back past Lorenzo on the brakes and the Spaniard's front-end folded and he slid into the gravel trap. It's Lorenzo's second non-point scoring finish in a row after he also crashed out at Donington Park. The crash gives Rossi a 50-point lead in the MotoGP World Championship, which is equivalent to two race wins.

At the start of the 22-lap encounter, Rossi got off the line first but was muscled back into second by Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa with Gresini Honda's Toni Elias in third and Lorenzo fourth.

It took Rossi two corners to get past the diminutive Spaniard as Lorenzo went past Elias at the same place. The front trio then broke away from Elias who was slowly reeled in by Pedrosa's team-mate Andrea Dovizioso and Rizla Suzuki's Loris Capirossi.

In what was a relatively drama-free middle section, Rossi and Lorenzo pulled away from Pedrosa and it looked like the Spaniard was happy to sit behind The Doctor, until Rossi tried to pull the pin and the pair started swapping laptimes a second under Casey Stoner's lap record.

As they stretched away, Elias fell back into the clutches of Dovizioso and Capirossi but managed to keep the pair behind him over the line to take the final podium spot. Capirossi took fifth and a resurgent Nicky Hayden took sixth, getting the better of Colin Edwards in the dying laps.

Mika Kallio and Marco Melandri came together on the last lap as Melandri tried to slide up the inside and they both ended up in the gravel trap. Britain's James Toseland was promoted to ninth after the pair went out.
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