Sachsenring MotoGP race
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.
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.
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.
Vinales is getting going and attacks Crutchlow for ninth, but the LCR Honda fights back and repels the title contender.
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
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
There was an odd collision between Marquez and Maverick Vinales. The Honda rider branded it a misunderstanding
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
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