MotoGP: Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) completes a decade of dominance in Germany.

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Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) completes a decade of dominance at the Sachsenring after cruising to a 4.5 second victory at the 2019 HJC Helmets Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland, the reigning Champion makes it 10 wins in a row in Germany to beat Maverick Viñales (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) and Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda Castrol).

Marquez was sluggish off the line and it looked like he would get swallowed up heading into Turn 1 but the number 93 was last of the late brakers to dive back into the lead. Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) slipped back from second to sixth at the start as Viñales, Jack Miller (Pramac Racing), Rins and Crutchlow all got past the Frenchman. And then, Quartararo’s race ended at Turn 3. The rookie went to get back past Ducati Team’s Danilo Petrucci on Lap 2 but the front of his Yamaha washed away from him as the 20-year-old crashed out of a race for the first time this season.

At the forefront of the MotoGP™ freight train, Marquez was conducting the pace from Viñales, with Crutchlow and Rins demoting Miller down to fifth as the top four started to edge clear of the rest. Edging clear of everyone though was King of the Ring Marquez. A 1:21.228 – a new lap record – on Lap 5 saw Marquez’ lead creep up to just under a second over Rins, with the latter also stretching his advantage over Viñales and Crutchlow to the same distance.

Marquez was in the groove as the seven-time Champion showed exactly why the Sachsenring is his playground. The Repsol Honda man wasn’t powering away at a rapid rate, but a tenth a lap on Laps 8 and 9 saw his lead go up to 1.5, but then the hammer was well and truly down. Lap 10 saw Marquez go 0.4 faster than Rins as the gap rose above the two-second barrier and from then on, there was no stopping the nine-time Sachsenring winner.

The battle for the second and third steps on the podium was on though. Crutchlow was shadowing Viñales who in turn was sitting a second back from Rins, with the gap remaining constant between the trio as we passed the mid-stage of the race. At this point, the battle for fifth place was also hotting up as Ducati Team’s Andrea Dovizioso and Petrucci were going head-to-head with fellow GP19 rider Miller, Joan Mir (Team Suzuki Ecstar), Valentino Rossi (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) and Aprilia Racing Team Gresini’s Aleix Espargaro.

In the race for P2, disaster then struck at the top of ‘The Waterfall’. Rins remained 0.9 clear of Viñales and Crutchlow but at the Ralf Waldmann corner, the Suzuki slid out of contention for his second consecutive DNF. This left Marquez with an unassailable 4.9 lead with 12 to go.

The last ten laps were just about controlling the gap for Marquez as he saw a 10th Sachsenring win appear ever closer, but who would finish second? Crutchlow had been attached to Viñales’ back wheel for the entirety and with two laps to go, the duo were separated by nothing. However, the number 35 then had a scare at Turn 10. A warning sign to the British rider that the left-hand side of the tyre wasn’t far away from throwing in the towel, with Crutchlow running wide and subsequently giving up the second place chase. Marquez crossed the line to win his fifth race of 2019, the seventh consecutive year he’s won five or more races in a premier class season – a record that sees him surpass MotoGP™ Legend Giacomo Agostini and nine-time Champion Rossi who both managed to do it for six straight years.

Viñales crossed the line to take his second straight podium of the season with Crutchlow getting his equal best result of the year in third, his first rostrum since the Qatar GP after battling a torn anterior cruciate ligament and a small fracture to the top of his tibia this weekend. The podium may have been decided but there were important points in the Championship to be decided just down the road.

Rossi had lost touch on the battle for fourth in the latter stages as it was Mir vs the three GP19s. With Marquez out in front, second in the Championship Dovizioso needed to limit the damage as much as possible. But Petrucci wasn’t going to let his teammate have it all his own way, the Italians exchanged P4 at the bottom of ‘The Waterfall’ before Dovi went to get back past Petrucci into Turn 1 with three to go. They both ran wide as Miller dived beneath them both, but the number 04 was aggressive and claimed P4 from the Australian as the battle between the Ducatis went down to the wire. Petrucci led them onto the last lap and he would hold fourth as the chequered flag came out, a terrific performance after his big get-off in Q2, Dovi produces another fine fightback to take P5 from P13 on the grid, with Miller settling for a solid sixth.

Mir picked up his third consecutive top ten in seventh, a great ride from the rookie, with Rossi ending his run of three-straight DNFs with a P8 at the Sachsenring. Franco Morbidelli (Petronas Yamaha SRT) finishes ninth in Germany to build on his fifth place in Assen as Jorge Lorenzo’s replacement Stefan Bradl (Repsol Honda Team) grabbed his second top ten of the season, a cracking effort from the German rider in front of his home fans.

The MotoGP™ riders have three weeks off now. It’s time to recharge the batteries ahead of the Czech GP at the start of August.

HJC HELMETS MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX DEUTSCHLAND

MotoGP Race Classification 2019.

Pos.	Points	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time/Gap
1	25	93	Marc MARQUEZ	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	160.6	41’08.276
2	20	12	Maverick VIÑALES	SPA	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	160.3	+4.587
3	16	35	Cal CRUTCHLOW	GBR	LCR Honda CASTROL	Honda	160.1	+7.741
4	13	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	159.5	+16.577
5	11	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	159.5	+16.669
6	10	43	Jack MILLER	AUS	Pramac Racing	Ducati	159.5	+16.836
7	9	36	Joan MIR	SPA	Team SUZUKI ECSTAR	Suzuki	159.5	+17.156
8	8	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	159.3	+19.110
9	7	21	Franco MORBIDELLI	ITA	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	159.2	+20.634
10	6	6	Stefan BRADL	GER	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	159.1	+22.708
11	5	53	Tito RABAT	SPA	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	158.9	+26.345
12	4	44	Pol ESPARGARO	SPA	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	158.9	+26.574
13	3	29	Andrea IANNONE	ITA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	158.5	+32.753
14	2	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	JPN	LCR Honda IDEMITSU	Honda	158.5	+32.925
15	1	17	Karel ABRAHAM	CZE	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	158.1	+37.934
16		55	Hafizh SYAHRIN	MAL	Red Bull KTM Tech 3	KTM	157.9	+41.615
17		63	Francesco BAGNAIA	ITA	Pramac Racing	Ducati	157.0	+56.189
18		88	Miguel OLIVEIRA	POR	Red Bull KTM Tech 3	KTM	156.9	+57.377
Not Classified
		41	Aleix ESPARGARO	SPA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	159.4	2 Laps
		42	Alex RINS	SPA	Team SUZUKI ECSTAR	Suzuki	160.9	12 Laps
		5	Johann ZARCO	FRA	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	155.6	28 Laps
		20	Fabio QUARTARARO	FRA	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	155.4	29 Laps

MotoGP World Standing 2019.

Pos.	Rider	Bike	Nation	Points
1	Marc MARQUEZ	Honda	SPA	185
2	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	Ducati	ITA	127
3	Danilo PETRUCCI	Ducati	ITA	121
4	Alex RINS	Suzuki	SPA	101
5	Maverick VIÑALES	Yamaha	SPA	85
6	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	ITA	80
7	Jack MILLER	Ducati	AUS	70
8	Fabio QUARTARARO	Yamaha	FRA	67
9	Cal CRUTCHLOW	Honda	GBR	67
10	Pol ESPARGARO	KTM	SPA	56
11	Franco MORBIDELLI	Yamaha	ITA	52
12	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Honda	JPN	50
13	Joan MIR	Suzuki	SPA	39
14	Aleix ESPARGARO	Aprilia	SPA	31
15	Andrea IANNONE	Aprilia	ITA	21
16	Jorge LORENZO	Honda	SPA	19
17	Johann ZARCO	KTM	FRA	16
18	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	POR	15
19	Tito RABAT	Ducati	SPA	14
20	Stefan BRADL	Honda	GER	12
21	Francesco BAGNAIA	Ducati	ITA	11
22	Michele PIRRO	Ducati	ITA	9
23	Sylvain GUINTOLI	Suzuki	FRA	3
24	Karel ABRAHAM	Ducati	CZE	3
25	Hafizh SYAHRIN	KTM	MAL	3
26	Bradley SMITH	Aprilia	GBR

Credits : Photos and content courtesy of MotoGP.com

MotoGP: Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) completes a decade of dominance in Germany.

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HJC HELMETS MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX DEUTSCHLAND

MotoGP World Standing 2019.

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