MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi, riding a Yamaha, has won the Catalan Grand Prix for the third year in a row on Sunday.
The race had to be restarted after a bad crash on the first bend that took out three riders, including championship leader Loris Capirossi. Italian Marco Melandri was carried away from the track on a stretcher after being attended to by doctors where he lay in the gravel.
Three MotoGP riders required hospital treatment
A Honda team official reported the rider was conscious. The accident started when Spaniard Sete Gibernau's Ducati flipped, taking John Hopkins, Melandri, Dani Pedrosa, Capirossi and Randy de Puniet with him off the circuit.
Rossi's third victory of the season lifted him to third place in the points table, only 29 points behind Hayden, who has yet to win this year, with 10 races remaining."The restart was difficult," Rossi said.
"Normally it is hard to concentrate, but after a crash like the one we saw today it is even more so." "I wasn't that confident at the beginning of the race, so I just stayed out of trouble," Roberts said. "I stabilised myself by the midway point, and then I rode more steadily to take the third place."
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