Austria MotoGP race day
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By: Matt Beer
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Another epic MotoGP encounter comes to a close. What drama awaits us at Silverstone in just two weeks' time?
Unitl then, though, thank you so much for coming along for the ride.
Unitl then, though, thank you so much for coming along for the ride.
Crutchlow was fourth, followed by Petrucci, Rossi, Pedrosa, Rins, Zarco, Bautista, Rabat, Vinales, Iannone, Smith, Nakagami.
Syahrin, EsA, Miller, Morbidelli, Redding, Abraham, Luthi missed the points. Simeon was the only DNF.
Syahrin, EsA, Miller, Morbidelli, Redding, Abraham, Luthi missed the points. Simeon was the only DNF.
Jorge Lorenzo wins in Austria! Marc Marquez takes second to extend his championship lead, Andrea Dovizioso completes the podium. What a race!
Marquez retaliates at Turn 3. Lorenzo will have to do it all over again if he wants victory here today.
Four laps to go, Marquez tucks into Lorenzo's slipstream but cannot do anything to usurp the speed of that Desmosedici.
Dovi lost six tenths through the final sectors. Marquez, meanwhile, closes up on Lorenzo under braking for Turn 4.
Petrucci has been handed a track limits warning. Numerous riders in Moto2 had to surrender positions for similar offences. The Italian, fifth at present, needs to be careful. Seven laps to go.
Dovizioso has regrouped and is on Marquez's tail. Lorenzo has a slight lead of just a couple of tenths.
What can Lorenzo do now? He has the soft rear, can he make a crucial break. That's how Andrea Iannone won here back in 2016.
Three tenths cover the top three and Marquez could not really build up an advantage despite Lorenzo's error.
11 laps to go, Lorenzo three tenths quicker than Marquez last time around. The gap just over a tenth.
Marquez's lead back up to seven tenths. Dovizioso still struggling to find a way through on his teammate.
Crutchlow still holds fourth. Petrucci, Rins, Rabat, Rossi, Pedrosa, EsA, Zarco, Bautista, Vinales, Iannone, Smith complete the points.
Marquez did go for the medium front tyre. This is a hard circuit on brakes, and we know the Honda does work the front tyre really hard.
15 laps remaining and the gap is down to half a second. Is Marquez struggling, or is this just tactics from the Honda rider?
This has shades of the Spanish Grand Prix about it, and we know how that ended. Surely Ducati has to react here and avoid a repeat?
You feel Lorenzo is perhaps holding Dovizioso up here. This is working into Marquez's hands. Do Ducati perhaps offer a dashboard message to Lorenzo now?
Lorenzo has cut Marquez's lead to seven tenths. Laptimes now identical between the top three. Is this the point of the race where Ducati come alive? 17 laps remaining.
Marquez is able to open up his gap through the third sector. Dovizioso piles the pressure on Lorenzo now onto lap 10.
Marquez is now a second clear as we start lap nine. This is impressive. The Ducatis needs to respond now if they want to stop the Honda rider's charge.
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