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MotoGP - Pedrosa fourth, Marquez recovers from crash to earn 3 points

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The French GP was a tough race for #danipedrosa and #marcmarquez, who nevertheless showed grit and determination to overcome their difficulties and bring home as many points as the situation allowed.

Pedrosa started from 11th on the grid and struggled at the beginning to get a good pace, but remained focused and recovered as much ground as possible. With some assistance also from other riders crashing, he finished in a solid fourth position and earned 13 important points to maintain fourth place in the championship standings.

One of the aforementioned crashes unfortunately involved his teammate Marquez on lap 7, while he was fighting for second position with Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi. Marc re-joined the race in last place and finished 13th, earning three championship points.

Marc currently lies second in the overall standings, five points down on Jorge Lorenzo.

 

 

 

 

Dani Pedrosa

4TH 

“I cannot feel satisfied with today’s fourth place because obviously I would prefer be much higher up the order and have better races. I give my all, but the conditions are not always there to do well. We are also making some mistakes, and one that is hurting us most is in qualifying, because starting far back makes things more difficult in the race. At the beginning of the race today we did not have good grip and it was hard to get enough of a feeling to go a little faster. The second part of the race went better, and there were some laps in which I even rode quicker than Rossi's pace, but it was too late. What makes a difference is starting well, starting high up on the grid and putting in good opening laps.”

 

 

 

 

Marc Marquez

13TH 

“It was a pity about the crash today. I was having a good race, but these things can happen when you’re at the limit on every lap. I could have opted for a more conservative race, but here you can end up far back if you do that, so today I had to take risks. In the race I saw that I was losing ground under acceleration, and I had to make that back with my braking. Finally I lost the front and crashed. The positive is that I managed to get three points and I’m only five off Jorge Lorenzo in the standings, which isn’t a lot. Now we have a run of tracks that we found a little tough last year, but they’re quite different to Jerez and #lemans, so I hope to be fast and have some good races."

 

 

 

 

Results Session

 

Rider

Num

Nation

Points

Team

Time/Gap

1

LORENZO Jorge

99

SPA

25

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP

43'51.290

2

ROSSI Valentino

46

ITA

20

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP

10.654

3

VINALES Maverick

25

SPA

16

Team Suzuki Ecstar

14.177

4

PEDROSA Dani

26

SPA

13

Repsol #honda Team

18.719

5

ESPARGARO Pol

44

SPA

11

Monster Yamaha Tech 3

24.931

6

ESPARGARO Aleix

41

SPA

10

Team Suzuki Ecstar

32.921

7

PETRUCCI Danilo

9

ITA

9

Octo Pramac Racing

38.251

8

BARBERA Hector

8

SPA

8

Avintia Racing

38.504

9

BAUTISTA Alvaro

19

SPA

7

Aprilia #racing Team Gresini

48.536

10

BRADL Stefan

6

GER

6

Aprilia #racing Team Gresini

54.502

11

LAVERTY Eugene

50

IRE

5

Aspar #motogp Team

1'02.677

12

BAZ Loris

76

FRA

4

Avintia Racing

1'07.658

13

MARQUEZ Marc

93

SPA

3

Repsol #honda Team

1 lap

14

SMITH Bradley

38

GBR

0

Monster Yamaha Tech 3

9 laps

15

MILLER Jack

43

AUS

0

Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS

11 laps

16

DOVIZIOSO Andrea

4

ITA

0

Ducati Team

13 laps

17

IANNONE Andrea

29

ITA

0

Ducati Team

17 laps

18

RABAT Tito

53

SPA

0

Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS

21 laps

19

CRUTCHLOW Cal

35

GBR

0

LCR Honda

22 laps

20

HERNANDEZ Yonny

68

COL

0

Aspar #motogp Team

22 laps

21

REDDING Scott

45

GBR

0

Octo Pramac Racing

23 laps

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