Rossi wins rain-shortened Indy MotoGP

World championship leader Valentino Rossi won the rain-shortened Indianapolis Grand Prix on Sunday to notch his fourth straight win and tighten his grip on the MotoGP title.

Italian Rossi, unbeaten since his victory at the U.S. Grand Prix in July, claimed victory when heavy rains and violent winds swept across the famed Brickyard bringing out the red flag with seven laps to run and giving the seven-times world champion a record 69th career MotoGP win.

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MotoGP » Lorenzo suffers broken foot.

Just when MotoGP rookie Jorge Lorenzo looked to have put a spate of accidents behind him, the Spaniard suffered a huge highside on the very first lap of the US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, ending his American debut in the Turn Five gravel.

Lorenzo made a good start and was up to fourth place when the accident, similar in magnitude to his Shanghai fall, happened. It was immediately clear that the Estoril winner had injured himself, a depressing realisation for a rider who has already had to cope with two broken ankles (Shanghai) and a concussion (Catalunya) this season.

It was later confirmed that the 21-year-old Fiat Yamaha rider broke the third and fifth metatarsal bones in his left foot and - while he at least has the summer break to recuperate - still faces a race against time to be fully fit for the Czech Republic Grand Prix on August 17. See more.

Team Mate Valentino Rossi - Jorge Lorenzo

20-year old Jorge Lorenzo joins the Fiat Yamaha Team for the 2008 season as double 250cc World Champion, having won the title for the past two years with Aprilia.

Lorenzo was born on the Balearic island of Mallorca, Spain on 4th May 1987. He began riding motorbikes at home at the tender age of three and within months of taking to two wheels was competing in his first minicross races. In 1995, aged eight, he won the Balearic title and followed that up the following year by taking the Island’s minicross, trial, minimoto and junior motocross titles.

Lorenzo graduated to road racing and national competition in 1997 and it didn’t take him long to adjust, winning the Aprilia 50cc Cup in 1998. Despite officially being too young, a special dispensation in 2000 allowed him to compete in the Spanish 125cc series at the age of 13 and he made history the following year when competing in Europe and becoming the youngest ever winner of a European 125cc race.

The precocious teenager, once again showing that age was no limit to a quick rise up the ranks of motorbike racing, made his first foray onto the world stage with Derbi at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez in 2002, the third round of the season. He did not reach the legal age of 15 until Saturday and therefore missed the first day of practice but was unfazed by this and impressed the paddock by qualifying for the race, cementing his position in the World Championship over the course of the season as he got to grips with the circuits. See more.