Australian Casey Stoner won the Gran Premio d'Italia Alice action with a convincingly smooth victory in another wet and dry MotoGP event.
In the second flag-to-flag competition in two rounds Stoner broke Rossi's winning run at Mugello with a solid race which handed Ducati their first ever number one spot at the Italian track.
An 80 thousand Italian crowd saw an exciting encounter as the riders yet again started in wet conditions but finished the 23 lap race on dry weather tyres, with Ducato rider Stoner judging things perfectly to claim the number one spot.
The Australian went to the top of the championship leader board as he finished the race a second in front of in form Spaniard and former leader Jorge Lorenzo, who also had a good race despite the scare of crashing on the sighting lap.
Italy's Valentino Rossi completed the podium in third place on his Yamaha watching his seven year victory sequence at the Mugello come to an end. The Italian hero finishing two seconds behind Stoner and less than one tenth ahead of Repsol Honda's Andrea Dovizioso.
James Toseland bravely decided to change bikes first, while languising toward the back of the race and just fell short of equaling his best MotoGP result of sixth as he was outdone by his team mate at Monster Yamaha Tech 3 , Colin Edwards on the final lap.
In the 250cc class, Itallian Mattia Pasini came first on the Aprilla 0.1 seconds ahead of countryman Marco Simoncelli on the Metis Gilera, The two finishing more than a minute ahead of Spaniard Alvaro Bautista riding the SPA aprilla.
In the 125cc class, It was an Aprilla 1-2-3 with Britains Bradley Smith finishing ahead of Spaniars Nicolas Terol and Julian Simon.
