Italy’s Valentino Rossi won the San Marino Grand Prix for the second consecutive year at the weekend and extended his lead atop the MotoGP standings to 30 points over Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo, who crossed second.

Rossi clocked 44 minutes 32.882 seconds at the Misano track, Lorenzo was 2.416sec behind and Honda’s Dani Pedrosa was a distant third, 12.4sec back.

Rossi holds a 237-207 lead over Lorenzo in the standings with four races remaining.

“I was in front every day this weekend so this can be considered a perfect weekend,” said Rossi, who started the race from pole position. “This was a good showing of strength after Indianapolis. It was important to win here because there is a month before the next race.”

Last weekend in the United States, Rossi failed to finish a race for the first time in two years and could only watch helplessly as Lorenzo won.

It was the sixth win this season for Rossi, the six-time world champion.

Hector Barbera took the 250cc title and fellow Spaniard Julian Simon won the 125cc race.

Standings after the San Marino MotoGP:

1      Valentino Rossi   237.0

2      Jorge Lorenzo     207.0

3      Daniel Pedrosa    157.0

4      Casey Stoner      150.0

5      Andrea Dovizioso 133.0

6      Colin Edwards     123.0

7      Loris Capirossi    97.0

8      Alex De Angelis   88.0

9      Randy De Puniet 88.0

10     Marco Melandri    87.0

11     Chris Vermeulen  84.0

12     Toni Elias           80.0

13     James Toseland  78.0

14     Nicky Hayden      73.0

15     Mika Kallio         51.0

16     Niccolo Canepa  35.0

17     Gabor Talmacsi   12.0

18     Sete Gibernau     12.0

19     Yuki Takahashi   9.0

20     Aleix Espargaro   8.0