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Dani Pedrosa put in a dominant display to claim the win. AP Photo/Michael Conroy

Dani Pedrosa dominates the field to win the Indianapolis MotoGP

The Spaniard started the race in pole position and never looked back.

POLE-SITTER DANI PEDROSA cruised to victory in Sunday’s Indianapolis MotoGP, finishing nearly 11 seconds ahead of fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo.

Pedrosa, on a Honda, completed the 28-lap course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 49min 39.631sec, 10.823sec ahead of Yahama’s Lorenzo.

The 26-year-old claimed his 17th career Moto GP win while Lorenzo stayed on top of the world championship standings.

Yamaha’s Italian rider Andrea Dovizioso finished third 17.310sec behind Pedrosa.

Pedrosa, Lorenzo and Dovizioso comprised the first row for the start of the race. The 26-year-old last won here in 2010 and it was his first win from pole position since the 2010 San Marino Grand Prix.

Last year’s winner Casey Stoner of Australia finished fourth at 19.803.

Stoner, the 2011 MotoGP world champion who plans to retire at the end of the season, was riding with special footwear after suffering torn ligaments and a slightly fractured right ankle in Saturday’s qualifying round.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 10:58 AM

    The delusion continues

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 10:52 AM

    You stay as long as you want Brendan. Another 26 years would be great.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 10:59 AM

    “I will do my best with what I am working”. because what youre working with had nothing to do with you? jog on.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 11:02 AM

    I cringe every time I hear or read anything out of Rodgers’ mouth now. He has lost his way as a coach. The fans that he didn’t lose after Stoke are now beginning to turn on him.The media smells blood, and will keep putting the boot in.
    Even if he wins the Derby, and the games after that, he is now only ever one or two defeats from “crisis”.
    Sooner or later, Rodgers’ had to go – and it is probably sooner.
    The big question in the media is “who replaces Rodgers?”. A bigger, more relevant question is: who in the LFC hierarchy is qualified to make the decision on who replaces Rodgers? The answer, fatally for Liverpool fans’ ambitions, is no-one. That’s a much bigger problem, and a harder one to resolve.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 11:28 AM

    big sam is the man or Tony Mowbray

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 11:02 AM

    so much money spent and they are rebuilding again? id be pretty pissed and start with sacking this bluffer.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 11:16 AM

    Only reason he is still in a job is because the Board haven’t agreed a deal yet with anyone else to manage the club. Dead man walking is Rodgers.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 11:38 AM

    Totally agree that he is a dead man walking – everyone knows it.
    Here’s the thing, though: who on the board knows anything about football? Henry and Werner don’t. Ayre is a commercial guy, really, with limited clout. Mike Gordon seems to be FSG’s “LFC guy” – he is a hedge fund manager. That leaves Dalgleish, if he is even involved.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 11:56 AM

    I’m sure they have a few former players on the other end of a phone if they need advice, there intelligent people the yanks, the thing about them is, if they don’t understand something they will always seek out information off people to find out. It’s a business for them. I’d let Rodgers go and bring in Kenny and Carra for the interim and write off this season, if it’s not possible to get a Klopp or Ancelotti now.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 12:06 PM

    Look at recent history of managers. Rodgers Hodgson Kenny. Ancelotti is to expensive maybe 6 or 7 mill a year. I just don’t see fsg spending the dough on a manager.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 1:57 PM

    The big problem is a lack of vision. FSG bought LFC because it was going cheap, but they never had – and still don’t seem to have – a strategy for the club, apart from “sell it at a profit”.
    Klopp, Ancelotti – even Guardiola! – won’t win anything at LFC until the vision and institutional leadership is sorted out. That, and increasing the wage bill, are necessary if LFC is to compete for anything ever again.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 12:29 PM

    Should of gone last season but offered his backroom instead
    Rumour is he’s gone by the end of October.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 1:38 PM

    Have.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 2:29 PM

    I think he should be worried… This Liverpool looks worst the last year and this time he cannot blame Balotelli…

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 1:57 PM

    Loads of stories coming out over twitter Yesterday evening, can’t see him being there come the end of the month.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 1:14 PM

    Lose tomorrow, and he’ll be gone Monday

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 1:43 PM

    gone next week anyway if the rumours are true

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