Sachsenring MotoGP race

08:43

Kallio, Abraham, Rabat, Baz, Redding and Rins are the final finishers. Iannone and Lowes crashed out, Barbera was thrown out.

08:43

Two KTMs in the points: Pol Espargaro 13th, Smith 14th and Miller completes the scorers.

08:42

Crutchlow completes the top 10, Lorenzo is only 11th and Petrucci only 12th.

08:42

Aleix Espargaro narrowly beats Dovizioso and Zarco to seventh.

08:42

Vinales holds off Rossi for fourth, with Bautista a hard-fought sixth.

08:38

Folger can afford to chill out and not risk losing second, he has a huge 8.5s gap back to Pedrosa.

08:38

He's hung on for 27 laps so, so well but now Folger is starting to lose time to Marquez. He now trails by 0.9s.

08:37

Dovizioso's race pace isn't holding up, he's fallen 2.0s off the back of Bautista - who is right with the Vinales/Rossi dice for fourth - and under big pressure from Aleix Espargaro's Aprilia.

Crash

08:35

Iannone, who was all over Lorenzo for 11th, has crashed out.

08:33

Vinales has now started to gain a trim a little out of the gap to Pedrosa in third, but they're still 3s apart with six laps left.

08:14

And Petrucci fights back at Rossi and retakes fourth - then loses it again, then very nearly takes it back. That was a close one...

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08:13

Rossi now passes Petrucci for fourth place. But he's 3.6s behind third-placed Pedrosa, who's fallen away from Folger and Marquez up front.

Crash

08:12

Barbera clearly didn't see his jump-start penalty - he hasn't come in for his drive-through so he's now been black-flagged and disqualified.

08:12

Encouragement for Suzuki - Iannone makes it past Pol Espargaro's KTM to take 12th.

08:12

Vinales is getting going and attacks Crutchlow for ninth, but the LCR Honda fights back and repels the title contender.

08:08

Folger's team-mate Zarco, the hero of so much of the season, is only 17th.

08:08

And now Folger takes the lead from Marquez - incredible riding!

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08:08

08:07

The home crowd LOVED that Folger move.

08:07

Folger slices past Pedrosa to take second!

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08:06

Crash

08:03

Barbera, who is only 21st anyway, has a jump-start penalty.

08:03

Marquez and Pedrosa are making a very slight break in first and second.

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08:02

Vinales is now past Pol Espargaro too into 10th.

08:02

Folger takes a look at Lorenzo, it doesn't work and he nearly loses fourth to Petrucci.

08:01

Dovizioso making progress, though, he takes Pol Espargaro for ninth.

08:01

Crutchlow, the Espargaros and Dovizioso complete the top 10, with VInales 11th.

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07:54

With just a few minutes to go, here is the grid:
Row 1. Marquez - Petrucci - Pedrosa
Row 2. Crutchlow - Folger - Lorenzo
Row 3. P.Espargaro - A.Espargaro - Rossi
Row 4. Dovizioso - Vinales - Bautista
Row 5. Miller - Baz - Smith
Row 6. Iannone - Kallio - Barbera
Row 7. Zarco - Abraham - Lowes
Row 8. Rins - Redding - Rabat

Autosport

07:52