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.

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MotoGP Race Classification 2019.

MotoGP World Standing 2019.