 Lorenzo started the race second on the grid
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Jorge Lorenzo claimed his seventh race victory of the season at the Czech Grand Prix to extend his overall championship lead to 77 points.
The Spaniard overtook pole-sitter and compatriot Dani Pedrosa on the first lap and never relinquished his lead.
Pedrosa finished 5.494 seconds behind Lorenzo. Casey Stoner was third, with world champion Valentino Rossi fifth.
Italian Andrea Dovizioso was lucky to escape serious injury when he collided with an oncoming bike on lap four.
British GP winner Dovizioso resumed the 21-lap race in Brno but eventually placed last.
"However, I am really angry because the way the race has panned out I think we would have been really challenging for second or third place," fumed the Honda Repsol rider.
After being overtaken by Lorenzo, who started third on the grid, Pedrosa managed to keep in touch with the runaway championship leader until lap 10.
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However, by the next lap, Lorenzo had built up a one-second advantage, and his lead was never threatened thereafter as he coasted to a victory that adds another five points between himself and Pedrosa, his nearest rival, in the riders' standings.
"It was a very difficult day as I had crashed in qualifying so my confidence was not so high. The wind made it difficult for the riders but for me its a fantastic win," beamed 23-year-old Lorenzo, who celebrated his triumph in a somewhat bizarre fashion, dismounting his bike and walking to a nearby golf course to take a putt which he needed two attempts to hole.
"I couldn't put the ball in the hole but at least I could win the race!" joked Lorenzo, whose victory sees him equal Australian legend Michael Doohan and Italian great Giacomo Agostino's record of finishing first or second in the first 10 races of the season.
American rookie Ben Spies, second in qualifying, was passed by Australia's former world champion Stoner on the tenth lap.
Tech 3 Yamaha rider Spies clung on to fourth spot ahead of Rossi, who, after starting fifth on the grid and falling back to eighth fought his way back to finish fifth ahead of the Ducati of Nicky Hayden.
Italian Rossi, competing in his third grand prix after returning from a four-race absence due to a broken leg, was far from his explosive best on his Yamaha.
The six-time MotoGP world champion, a 2008 and 2009 winner in the Czech Republic, crashed in qualifying on Saturday, but had escaped unhurt.
Czech Grand Prix result:
1 Jorge Lorenzo (Spn) Yamaha 43:22.638
2 Dani Pedrosa (Spn) Honda 43:28.132
3 Casey Stoner (Aus) Ducati 43:34.064
4 Ben Spies (US) Yamaha 43:36.361
5 Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 43:40.568
6 Nicky Hayden (US) Ducati 43:49.453
7 Colin Edwards (US) Yamaha 43:56.034
8 Marco Melandri (Ita) Honda 44:02.044
9 Hector Barbera (Spn) Ducati 44:02.277
10 Randy de Puniet (Fra) Honda 44:03.531
11 Marco Simoncelli (Ita) Honda 44:04.670
12 Aleix Espargaro (Spn) Ducati 44:09.729
13 Alex de Angelis (SM) Honda 44:14.006
DNF Alvaro Bautista (Spn) Suzuki 21 laps
DNF Mika Kallio (Fin) Ducati 7 laps
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