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VOL. 50 ISSUE 29 JULY 23, 2013 The walking wounded: Jorge Lorenzo (99) ended up sixth with Dani Pedrosa (26) fifth. balls for two years over that – so what do you want to say now?" Suppo was quick to respond. "I say thank you to Marc, because after a few years, we pay you back." Rossi concluded: "I think he is right to overtake me like that, and I will try to overtake him again. I like his move. I expected him from the other side. Now I have a credit with him. So I can do it to him." A pale and strained Lorenzo was another three seconds away, relieved at the end of the close but not pressing companionship of Crutchlow, who faded at the finish. "I found the limit early on, and I couldn't go any faster," Crutchlow said. "I had trouble all weekend trying to find settings. From nearly winning last week to seventh now is disappointing, but at least we got some points." He added… "Valentino did a fantastic job, the circuit clearly didn't suit the Yamaha." Eighth was furiously contested between the two Ducatis. Andrea Dovizioso had most of the leading, and when home-boy Nicky Hayden did get ahead, Dovi promptly clattered into him on the front straight, regaining the advantage, and waving an apology half-a-lap later. The American, who had just announced he'd been dumped by Ducati, prevailed over the last laps, and at the end by just two tenths. Alex de Angelis, a one-race substitute for Ben Spies on the Ignite Ducati, had been following at a growing distance, then with just over 10 laps to go was finally caught by a lively CRT-bike battle between Colin Edwards and his NGM Forward FTR-Kawasaki and the similarly mounted Hector Barbera. Barbera led de Angelis over P51 Briefly... Texas, and was within qualifying margins at Laguna when he was spat off the highside at turn six. While he escaped serious injury, the bike turned somersaults in the air before landing hard on its front end, damaging the one-off chassis beyond immediate repair. With half the season gone, Yamaha's chances of finishing the season without exceeding the allocation of five engines are looking slimmer. All four of their riders have only one spare engine left for the rest of the year, and while the satellite pair Crutchlow and Smith still have use of the four already broken out of the boxes, both Rossi and Lorenzo have lost one engine apiece. As ever, Honda is the gold standard. All four riders have still used only three engines apiece, and only one (Alvaro Bautista's) has been withdrawn from allocation. Ducati is not far behind, with their four riders still on three engines apiece, though each of them has lost one of those. The CRT bikes get 12 rather than five engines for the season, and all are doing fairly comfortably, although Barbera (FTR Kawasaki) and Danilo Petrucci (Suter BMW) have each taken eight out of the box. Claudio Corti (FTR Kawasaki) and Hiroshi Aoyama (both FTR Kawasaki), Aleix Espargaro (ART Aprilia) and Lukas Pesek (Suter BMW) are on their seventh. The only Honda-powered CRT bike, Brian Staring's FTRCBR1000RR machine, has used just four of the 12 available.