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By: Matt Beer

Summary

Status: Stopped
Kallio, Abraham, Rabat, Baz, Redding and Rins are the final finishers. Iannone and Lowes crashed out, Barbera was thrown out.
Two KTMs in the points: Pol Espargaro 13th, Smith 14th and Miller completes the scorers.
Crutchlow completes the top 10, Lorenzo is only 11th and Petrucci only 12th.
Aleix Espargaro narrowly beats Dovizioso and Zarco to seventh.
Vinales holds off Rossi for fourth, with Bautista a hard-fought sixth.
Folger can afford to chill out and not risk losing second, he has a huge 8.5s gap back to Pedrosa.
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.
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.
Iannone, who was all over Lorenzo for 11th, has crashed out.
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.
And Petrucci fights back at Rossi and retakes fourth - then loses it again, then very nearly takes it back. That was a close one...
 
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.
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.
Encouragement for Suzuki - Iannone makes it past Pol Espargaro's KTM to take 12th.
Vinales is getting going and attacks Crutchlow for ninth, but the LCR Honda fights back and repels the title contender.
Folger's team-mate Zarco, the hero of so much of the season, is only 17th.
And now Folger takes the lead from Marquez - incredible riding!
 
The home crowd LOVED that Folger move.
Folger slices past Pedrosa to take second!
 
Barbera, who is only 21st anyway, has a jump-start penalty.
Marquez and Pedrosa are making a very slight break in first and second.
 
Vinales is now past Pol Espargaro too into 10th.
Folger takes a look at Lorenzo, it doesn't work and he nearly loses fourth to Petrucci.
Dovizioso making progress, though, he takes Pol Espargaro for ninth.
Crutchlow, the Espargaros and Dovizioso complete the top 10, with VInales 11th.
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
Marc Marquez will start from pole position for the eighth year in a row at the Sachsenring, an amazing record which dates back to his 125cc days
Sachsenring MotoGP: Marquez extends German Grand Prix pole streak

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