Marc Marquez increases his points lead, taking hard-fought 2nd in Austria; Dani Pedrosa takes 7th place
Dani PedrosaMarc MarquezMotoGPNews August 12, 2018
Today Marc Marquez scored a hard-fought second place at a sunny Red Bull Ring, sharing the podium with race-winner Jorge Lorenzo and third-place rider Andrea Dovizioso.
Marc ultimately missed the win by only 0.130”, and definitely not for lack of trying. After taking the lead on the second lap, he... Read more
Marc Marquez grabs a brilliant pole at the Red Bull Ring, Dani Pedrosa on third row
Dani PedrosaMarc MarquezMotoGPNews August 11, 2018
First in this morning’s damp FP3 session, first in this afternoon’s dry FP4 session, Marc Marquez concluded an extremely positive Saturday at the Red Bull Ring by taking his 49th MotoGP pole, the 77th of his career.
It was not an easy affair for Marc. He had to fight tooth... Read more
Marc Marquez celebrates his 100th MotoGP race on Brno podium, Dani Pedrosa in eighth place
Dani PedrosaMarc MarquezMotoGPNews August 5, 2018
At the Czech GP, Marc Marquez celebrated from the third step of the podium the special milestone of 100 MotoGP races, showing once again the reasons behind the impressive numbers of his still relatively short Premier Class career.
His 71st MotoGP podium out of 100 starts (71%) was the best... Read more
Front row start for Marc Marquez at Brno, Dani Pedrosa 10th
Dani PedrosaMarc MarquezMotoGPNews August 4, 2018
On another hot and sunny day at Brno, with asphalt temperatures reaching 50° C at the time of the qualifying session, Marc Marquez secured a very important front-row start, setting the third-fastest time of the day, just 0.272” down on pole-setter Andrea Dovizioso and 0.05” off Valentino Rossi in... Read more
Marc Marquez once again rules at the ’Ring, Dani Pedrosa places eighth
Dani PedrosaMarc MarquezMotoGPNews July 15, 2018
Marc Marquez perfectly mastered a tactical race to take a stellar ninth straight win at the Sachsenring, after starting from pole position.
The reigning World Champion saved his tyres while following Danilo Petrucci and Jorge Lorenzo in the early phases, took the lead on lap 13 when he decided it... Read more
Marc Marquez does it again: ninth consecutive pole at Sachsenring, Dani Pedrosa improves to 10th
Dani PedrosaMarc MarquezMotoGPNews July 14, 2018
Qualifying day of the German GP followed one of Marc Marquez’s classic patterns. The reigning World Champion dedicated the FP3 and FP4 sessions to finalizing his bike’s setup in order to understand the tyre feedback and to test the limits to which he could push himself and his RC213V.
With... Read more
Career pole number 75 for Marc Marquez in Assen, tough qualifying for Dani Pedrosa
Dani PedrosaMarc MarquezMotoGPNews June 30, 2018
So close was today’s qualifying session in Assen that the riders on the front row ended up within just 0.059”, whilst the top-10 were split by less than 4 tenths of a second.
Well aware of how tight things were going to be today, and will be tomorrow, Marc Marquez... Read more