2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
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| Race 5 of 17 races in the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season |
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| Date | 31 May 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Mugello Circuit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pole position | |||
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| Rider |
 Jorge Lorenzo
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| Time | 1:48.987 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider |
 Valentino Rossi
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| Time | 1:51.186 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
 Casey Stoner
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| Second |
Jorge Lorenzo
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| Third |
Valentino Rossi
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| Rider |
Álvaro Bautista
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| Time | 1:52.804 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider |
Marco Simoncelli
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| Time | 2:05.830 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
Mattia Pasini
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| Second |
Marco Simoncelli
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| Third |
Álvaro Bautista
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| Rider |
 Bradley Smith
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| Time | 1:58.134 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider |
Julián Simón
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| Time | 1:58.744 | ||
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| First |
Bradley Smith
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| Second |
Nicolás Terol
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| Third |
Julián Simón
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The 2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 29–31 May 2009 at the Mugello Circuit. The Moto GP race was won by Casey Stoner with Jorge Lorenzo second and Valentino Rossi in third place. This broke Rossi's sequence of seven consecutive victories at this event. During the weekend, Dani Pedrosa recorded the fastest speed ever for a motorcycle grand prix bike, with 349.3 km/h (217.0 mph) breaking Makoto Tamada's record of 343.7 km/h (213.6 mph) set in 2006.Mika Kallio and Rossi also recorded speeds above the previous benchmark.
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