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The worst possible news has now come through from Malaysia:
Awful news from Malaysia - we'll leave it there, hoping and praying for Simoncelli to come through after that horrific accident.
The reason for the cancellation has come through, and it's the worst possible news: Marco Simoncelli's injuries are apparenrtly critical despite him regaining consciousness, and organisers will not run the race while his life hangs in the balance.
We'd been wondering why none of the bikes had been out warming up from the planned restart five minutes ago - but it's not taking place now.
THE RACE HAS BEEN CANCELLED! Shocking stuff here in Malaysia!
Clouds have been gathering ever since the race was stopped, and the sky is looking glooomier and gloomier now - the spectre of tropical rain is always a worry in Malaysia, we could yet see a further delay.
New reports in - and Colin Edwards has apparently dislocated his shoulder. Poor guy, there was absolutely nowhere to go for him when Simoncelli went down in his path.
The bikes will be back out on the grid at 4:30pm local time - that's 9:30am UK time - with the race restarting with the original grid positions 15 minutes later.
Reports are reaching us that Colin Edwards has probably broken a bone in his hand.
Simoncelli is apparently conscious, so thankfully it sounds like his injuries aren't critical.
Simoncelli is being treated in the medical centre at the circuit - replays show that he simply overbalanced and fell off, with Edwards and Rossi running into him.
Rossi looks fine, but Simoncelli is still being treated. You'll get the news as soon as we do.
Colin Edwards is holding his wrist in pain after that crash - unlikely that he'll restart.
Shocking scenes here in Malaysia. It'll be a complete restart with 20 laps to run.
The race will have to be restarted - Simoncelli doesn't look good, he's lying prostrate on the track.
There's a three-way collision! Simoncelli is down, Rossi is involved as well and Colin Edwards loses it too! Red flag!
Stoner still leads after one lap, but the big battle on track is between Bautista and Simoncelli for fourth place - they're having a great tussle and overtaking each other back and forth.
It's a clean start, with Stoner getting away best of the front row and the championship leader leads from the front!
The warm-up lap is over, and we're about to get under way...
The warm-up lap gets under way, and the all-orange front row makes for an eyecatching sight.
The bikes are on the grid, the hangers on and scantily-clad girls are being hurried off the tarmac, and we're about to get under way...
And in the 125cc race, Maverick Vinales took his third victory of the year as Nico Terol's championship
In the Moto2 race earlier, Thomas Luthi denied Stefan Bradl a chance to wrap up the Moto2 world championship
Morning everybody, and welcome to our LIVE coverage of this penultimate race of the MotoGP season.