MotoGP 2016: Lorenzo triumphant at Qatar season-opener

When Jorge Lorenzo’s on pole, Jorge Lorenzo usually wins the race.

So it was at the first race of the 2016 season of MotoGP.

Lorenzo had one of his usual blazing starts, taking the lead at race start. But then the Ducati boys caught up with him. Andreas Iannone and Dovizioso managed to use the outright speed of their Ducati GP16s, blazing past Lorenzo and taking the top two places on track. But their run at the head of the pack wasn’t to last forever. First it was Iannone who had a big crash on the sixth lap of the race, which meant…