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Australian MotoGP: Motorsport.com's rider ratings

It may not quite have been last year's thriller, but Phillip Island still threw up another eventful MotoGP race on Sunday - with a winner few would have expected. Jamie Klein assesses the field. Jorge Lorenzo - 5 By his own admission, Lorenzo was lucky to make Q2 as the gamble of others (including his own teammate) to switch to intermediates in Q1 didn't pay off. But he struggled hugely on a drying track, lapping the thick end of seven seconds off the pace, setting the tone for a race that he can be happy to have come away from with 10 points in the bag. Still, finishing six seconds behind Pol Espargaro's satellite Yamaha in fully dry conditions is inexcusable for a rider of Lorenzo's...
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