Valentino Rossi is the legend, while Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo are the leading lights now.
Crutchlow's teammate Andrea Dovizioso finished fourth with seven-time champion Valentino Rossi in seventh for Ducati.
World champion Valentino Rossi came home in second place to stretch his championship lead to nine points.
World champion Valentino Rossi remained upright throughout, and pinched second place on the grid with his last lap.
His victory means he is now 18 points behind championship leader Valentino Rossi, who could only finish fourth.
Dovizioso's British teammate Cal Crutchlow was fifth ahead of Spain's Alvaro Bautista and seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi of Ducati.
One of the most interesting aspects to emerge from this season is the friction between Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa.
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Lorenzo's new teammate Valentino Rossi continued his struggles of the past two years at Ducati as he could only qualify seventh.
Onto the main protagonists and I see this season being a titanic battle between Honda's Dani Pedrosa and Yamaha's Valentino Rossi.
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Hayden's teammate, seven-time champion Valentino Rossi, continued his disappointing season back in 13th after being forced into the pits for a late tire change.
Alvaro Bautista, who won his first pole at Silverstone this month, will start eighth ahead of Ducati's former world champions Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi.
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Hayden's first-ever MotoGP win in Europe stretched his championship lead to 42 points and really puts him in pole position to dethrone Yamaha's Valentino Rossi.
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The Spaniard finished runner-up to Valentino Rossi in last year's title race and his build-up to the new season has been disrupted by a fractured hand.
Seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi was well down the order in ninth, having struggled for form since switching from Yamaha to Ducati for the 2011 season.
His former arch rival in MotoGP, Italian legend Valentino Rossi has also been l inked in the past with a move to four wheels with Ferrari.
Valentino Rossi suffered no such trouble as he guided his own Yamaha to the fastest time of the day, clearly putting those Estoril set-up problems firmly behind him.
In 2009, the mistakes were evidently fewer and less serious as he battled with his team-mate Valentino Rossi for the title, eventually paying the price for race crashes at Jerez, Donington and Brno.
In contrast, it was a slow start for Valentino Rossi, a seven-time world champion in the sport's premier class, who finished the Thursday session in 10th place and the same again in Friday's first run.
Crutchlow's Monster Yamaha Tech 3 teammate Andrea Dovizioso headed the third row in seventh ahead of Pramac Racing's Hector Barbera, who finished in front of seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi to be the top Ducati rider.
The HannSpree Ten Kate Honda ace was on hand to meet world champion Valentino Rossi on his visit to the island on Monday and would welcome the chance to lock horns with the legendary Italian on the track.
But as usual, Valentino Rossi will be the man they all have to beat - and after topping the time sheets in two of the three pre-season tests, the Italian is looking forward to the serious business of winning races.
That same season, Valentino Rossi took the first of his 101 premier-class victories so far following an unforgettable battle with our own Jeremy McWilliams and the Italian somehow bettered that the following year to beat pole man Max Biaggi with a stunning ride from eleventh on the grid.
Italian ace Valentino Rossi again struggled on his Ducati and was back in ninth spot, while San Carlo Honda Gresini's Alvaro Bautista will start from the back of the grid after being penalized for his crash last weekend at Assen where he took out Lorenzo on the first bend.
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