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That means we are most likely to get another exciting duel between Marquez and Dovizioso, both starting from the front row.
Yamaha has improved a lot, Rossi and Vinales are definitely contenders for a podium finish, but they've been underwhelming plenty of times in races this year. Let's just call them dark horses for the victory, I guess.
Yamaha has improved a lot, Rossi and Vinales are definitely contenders for a podium finish, but they've been underwhelming plenty of times in races this year. Let's just call them dark horses for the victory, I guess.
Crash
You may have noticed that Jorge Lorenzo is not in the above grid list - well, the Ducati rider is going to miss this one.
He was already not completely healthy heading into the weekend but then a big crash in FP2 made him decide against racing in Thailand.
He was already not completely healthy heading into the weekend but then a big crash in FP2 made him decide against racing in Thailand.
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Grid: 1 Marquez; 2 Rossi; 3 Dovizioso; 4 Vinales; 5 Crutchlow; 6 Iannone; 7 Pedrosa; 8 Zarco; 9 Petrucci; 10 Miller; 11 Rins; 12 Bautista; 13 Morbidelli; 14 Nakagami; 15 Smith; 16 A.Espargaro; 17 Abraham; 18 Syahrin; 19 P. Espargaro; 20 Simeon; 21 Torres; 22 Luthi; 23 Redding.
Marc Marquez wrote history in qualifying yesterday as he became the first rider to take pole position coming from Q1. But the bigger sensation was Valentino Rossi missing out on pole by just 0.011s. It's the same Rossi (and Yamaha) who could only qualify 18th at Aragon the last time.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the inaugural Thailand Grand Prix, the 15th race of the 2018 MotoGP season.
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