MotoGP, the perfect race Valentino Rossi wins in the home of Lorenzo and Marquez. “I enjoy being in front of those two ‘- Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published April 24, 2016 at 14:53.
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in Texas in the dust, in Jerez Olympus. Rises from the gravel, Valentino Rossi, and along the curves of Jerez draws the perfect race, back to success that was missing from Silverstone 2015, reopens the world and forget the burning crash at Assen. The “neoducatista” Lorenzo and Marc Marquez accompany him on the podium, but really never manage to lay a trap. Least we can Ducatis: better Iannone (eventually seven) of Dovizioso who once again, for the third consecutive race, goes ko: this time to betray him is the bike, and the third in a row flop means in fact goodbye any World Championship ambitions. Ambitions that instead the Doctor raises great, along with the dream of returning there, on the throne of the World Championship, to 37 years and another page of his legend still to be written.

“I really enjoyed to be there in the middle, on the podium, the higher of the two of them. ” Having put behind Lorenzo and Marquez in Spain, homeland of his “enemies” for the skin, “has given me his own taste – said Rossi SkySport – I expected to be competitive, but it was more a hope than a certainty. After the pole position I thought “not bad.” Then, before the start, my mechanic told me “before all from start to finish” and I did not appear to be a bad idea. It was a perfect weekend. “

The race
The Best Shot at the start is to Rossi, he brings with him Lorenzo, with Pedrosa who can stand in front of Marquez. It applies not only closes the great trajectories to Lorenzo, who not only manages to implement his escape plans, but also stretches, with Marquez that gets rid of Pedrosa and back on. Vale rises to 1 “2 margin on lap 7, 1″ 5 8th, 1 “9-9 °, 2″ 1-10 °, 3 “to 15 °, and then begin to decline, with Lorenzo He recovered tenths per lap. The duel between the two of them, with Marquez that does not have the pace and others away. At 8 laps to go Rossi still has 2 “margin but can increase up to more than 4″ of the final. A Rossini crescendo (to stay in theme excellent Pesaro …). The demonstration that the Doctor is still there, and he still wants to dream the impossible.

The ranking
Here is the updated rankings of the MotoGP Jerez after the race . 1. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda 82 points; 2. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 65; 3. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 58; 4. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 40; 5. Pol Espargaro (Spain) Yamaha 36; 6. Maverick Vinales (Spain) Suzuki 33; 7. Aleix Espargaro (Spain) Suzuki 32; 8. Hector Barbera (Spain) Ducati 31; 9. Eugene Laverty (Ireland) Ducati 28; 10. Andrea Iannone (Italy) Ducati 25.

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