Marquez wins 50th win in Moto GP
Marquez wins 50th win in Moto GP
World champion Marc Marquez (Honda) won his 50th Moto GP career on Sunday after winning the Czech Grand Prix of MotoGP, the 10th stage of the world championship at the Brno circuit.
It was the sixth win of the Spanish cyclist this year, in a race delayed by 45 minutes due to rain, and was awarded the end badge before a lap from the end due to difficult weather conditions.
Marquez is the fourth rider to win 50 first-tier wins after Italian Valentino Rossi, Jacomo Augustini and Mick Dohan. Marquez also equaled the start-up record for Doohan after 58 times.
Defending champion Marquez (26) scored 39: 24.430 minutes, ahead of Italy's Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati, by 2,452 seconds, and 3,497 seconds ahead of Australian Jack Miller, who overcame Spain's Alex Rens (Suzuki), to reach the podium for the second time.
He accused his compatriot of 'disrespect' the rest of the riders after he considered that the five-time world champion had hampered him and rubbed with him during Saturday's qualifying period, during which Marquez scored the fastest time.
The Suzuki team also filed a complaint against Marquez for disabling his riders, but the jury decided not to take any punishment against Honda.
'It was a good race, and I succeeded in adopting the driving style I wanted,' Marquez said. 'I saw Dovetsuzzo behind me, pushed more but I almost slipped.
The Catalan riders extended their lead to 210 points, 63 points ahead of Doviciuso and 81 points ahead of Italian Danilo Petrucci (Ducati).
Alex Marquez wins Moto 2
In the Moto 2 category, Spaniard Alex Marquez, the younger brother of world champion Mark, took first place and widened the lead in the riders' lead to 33 points from his nearest pursuers.
It was the fifth win for the 23-year-old Spanish cyclist since the start of the season.
Top-of-the-line Calix dominated the race from start to finish on a dry track, achieving 38: 49.768 minutes to lead by 3,018 seconds ahead of Italian Fabio de Jannontunio (SpeedUp), and 4,158 seconds ahead of the national of Inia Bastianini (Calix), The first riders climbed to the podium in the Moto 2 category.
'I pressed from the start, because I knew that my closest riders would go right behind me,' Marquez said. 'To find yourself at the top of the race from the beginning to the end is sometimes difficult in terms of concentration.'
With 161 points at the top of the riders' standings, Marquez is 33 points ahead of Swiss Thomas Luthy (Calix), who started from 12th place and was forced to retire because he fell 16 laps from the end.
In the Moto 3 category, Spaniard Aaron Canet (KTM) won his second win this year, after his first race in Texas last April, and regained the top of the riders after this round.
Cannet started from sixth place, but managed to cross the rest of the riders to finish in 39: 11.879 minutes, 0.1159 seconds ahead of Italian Lorenzo Dalla Porta (Honda) from 17th place. The other Italian, Tony Arbolino (Honda), who started from Top, third, 0.217 seconds behind Canet.
Italian rider Niccolo Antonelli, who had to return to the garage after a mechanical problem during the warm-up lap, shone again but Honda rallied again to finish fifth, 0.499 seconds behind.
The 19-year-old Cannet led riders with 148 points, three ahead of runner-up Dala Porta. Italy's Antonelli is third with 98 points.