With no one making any costly errors, the gaps were staying fairly constant. A tenth here and a tenth there saw Marquez stretch his advantage to one and a half seconds with six laps remaining, with Miller cutting the gap to Quartararo down by four tenths – 0.6 was the number, but was there a late twist for P2 inbound? Not quite, Miller didn’t have enough speed to catch the back of the M1 by the time the chequered flag was waved, with Marquez taking another 25-point haul to land Repsol Honda Team the 2019 triple crown.

Dovizioso and Ducati’s aims of picking up the Teams title didn’t materialise in Valencia, but P4 was a solid result for the Italian who was comfortably best of the rest in 2019. Rins capped off a fine season by claiming P5 at his home Grand Prix, however it wasn’t enough to grab P3 in the Championship from sixth place finisher Maverick Viñales (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) – the Malaysian GP winner having a quiet final round of the season before jumping onto the 2020 Yamaha on Tuesday. Seventh for Joan Mir (Team Suzuki Ecstar) was a great way to round off a very solid rookie MotoGP™ campaign, the Spaniard ends 2019 with five consecutive top 10s. Valentino Rossi’s (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) P8 sees the nine-time World Champion end the season P7 in the overall standings, with Aleix coming out on top in the battle of the Espargaro brothers – P9 for Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini), P10 for Pol Espargaro (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing).

Danilo Petrucci (Ducati Team), Johann Zarco (LCR Honda Idemitsu) and Iker Lecuona (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) all crashed at Turn 6, on Lap 14, in separate incidents. Petrucci was the first to go down, with Zarco then crashing slightly further around the corner seconds after. A scary scenario then unfolded as Lecuona crashed at the exact same place as Zarco. Up and ok after his off, Zarco was hit by Lecuona’s stricken KTM, sending the Frenchman into a somersault. Thankfully, Zarco – along with Lecuona and Petrucci – was ok. Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda Castrol), Franco Morbidelli (Petronas Yamaha SRT) and Andrea Iannone (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini) crashed – riders ok.

On his final-ever MotoGP™ ride, five-time World Champion and future MotoGP™ Legend Jorge Lorenzo finished P13. It was an emotional day for the Spaniard who arrived back into pitlane to rapturous applause, with the Valencia fans paying their full respects to one of the sport’s greatest ever riders on his cool-down lap.

Top 10:
1. Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team)
2. Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) + 1.026
3. Jack Miller (Pramac Racing) + 2.409
4. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) + 3.326
5. Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar) + 3.508
6. Maverick Viñales (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) + 8.829
7. Joan Mir (Team Suzuki Ecstar) + 10.622
8. Valentino Rossi (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) + 22.992
9. Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini) + 32.704
10. Pol Espargaro (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) + 32.973.

GRAN PREMIO MOTUL DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA

MotoGP Race Classification 2019.

MotoGP World Standing 2019.