Motorsport: Valencia MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo wins race to grab world title from Valentino Rossi

JORGE Lorenzo claimed his third MotoGP world title at the Valencia Grand Prix amid  acrimony and accusations of collusion from his vanquished Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi.

Rossi went into the season-closing race seven points clear of Lorenzo, but the Italian legend was left with a Herculean task starting from the back of the grid as punishment for pushing Marc Marquez off his bike in Malaysia.
Rossi surged dramatically through the pack to finish fourth but Lorenzo led from pole to flag, despite intense pressure from his Spanish compatriots, Honda duo Marquez and Dani Pedrosa.
All eyes were on Marquez to see if he could overtake Lorenzo after his spat with Rossi who accused the two-time world champion of conspiring to help Lorenzo win the title.
And after losing out on a 10th world title Rossi was far from happy.
“Incredible work by Honda, eh?” he said.
“I knew it would be like that and so it was in the end.
“That helped me because for sure in another kind of race they would have tried to overtake which they didn’t this time.
“If Valentino had been in my position and with Italians behind they would have done exactly the same.
“The title had to be for Spain.”

Originally published as Angry Rossi calls Lorenzo win Spanish set-up