Dutch TT race day

16:02 So that's that for our coverage of the Assen MotoGP weekend. This year's race wasn't quite a match for last year's thriller, but it was honestly not far off, with the duel between Vinales, Marquez and Quartararo living up to the billing.

And we get to do it all over again next weekend at the Sachsenring.

Assen MotoGP: Vinales beats Marquez, Quartararo for first win of 2019

Maverick Vinales scored his and Yamaha's first win of 2019 after emerging victorious in a thrilling three-way fight with Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo at Assen.

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16:00 Vinales: "It feels amazing. Honestly Assen is one of the tracks I like more on the calendar, all the fans are amazing, the layout is amazing. I have no words.

"I just want to congratulate the team because they did a great job, all the fans there that I feel the passion and the support, they were giving me a little bit more.

"I am so excited, right now I am living my dream."

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15:58 Marquez: "Yeah, I mean, amazing weekend here in Assen, we know that Yamaha was very strong already in the practice, but I say, okay, I put the soft [rear] and my target is to finish on the podium, because on the hard I was not sure I was able to finish on the podium.

"This is like a victory, we increase the advantage in the championship. I saw that Vinales was faster than me, I try to be with him just to avoid that fight with Quartararo in the end, so I was behind Vinales for a few laps but then I already see he was faster than me. So today he deserved the victory."

15:53 Quartararo: "Yeah, was really difficult to handle with the bike, I was leading the race for the first time so I'm really happy.

"Is our second podium, I can't wait to be in Germany and I hope I can rest a little bit my arm because now it's a little bit hard. Really happy about the job we did today, I just want to thank all the team and my family."

15:52 A delayed replay shines some more light on what happened between Rossi and Nakagami - the Italian had lined up a pass down the inside, and there was some contact and a fall. But it's impossible to tell in which order it all happened from Rossi's onboard.

15:49 Championship top 10: 1 Marquez, 160, 2 Dovizioso, 116; 3 Petrucci, 108; 4 Rins, 101; 5 Rossi, 72; 6 Quartararo, 67; 7 Vinales, 65; 8 Miller, 60; 9 P Espargaro, 52; 10 Crutchlow, 51.

15:47 Quartararo arrives to parc ferme, and seems to be in serious pain in his right wrist. But he's not disappointed to have missed out on the win - and by the looks of it neither is Marquez. This'll be one happy podium.

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15:44 Vinales is near tears - probably in tears, but it's hard to tell for sure because in the helmet. It's a huge, huge, huge result for the Spaniard, especially in terms of his Yamaha future.

15:43 Final order: 1 Vinales, 2 Marquez, 3 Quartararo, 4 Dovizioso, 5 Morbidelli, 6 Petrucci, 7 Crutchlow, 8 Mir, 9 Miller, 10 Iannone, 11 P Espargaro, 12 A Espargaro, 13 Oliveira, 14 Bagnaia, 15 Syahrin, 16 Rabat, 17 Abraham.

15:42 Dovizioso bags fourth place, Morbidelli overtakes Petrucci for fifth on the final lap.

15:42 Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo complete the podium, 4.9 and 9.7s behind Vinales respectively.

15:41 Maverick Vinales scores Yamaha's first victory of the 2019 campaign, taking the chequered flag first in the Dutch TT.

15:40 Half a lap to go. Vinales is 3.3s clear of Marquez, and just needs to bring it home.

15:40 Mir has a big moment at Turn 2, running wide and allowing Crutchlow through into seventh.

15:39 Vinales is now the quickest rider on track by nearly a second, and he takes a 2.5s lead into the final lap.

15:39 Takaaki Nakagami is reported as being unhurt by his LCR crew.

15:38 Vinales may have broken Marquez! Two laps to go, and the gap shoots up to over a second.

15:37 Petrucci is racing Dovizioso hard for fourth - he slipstreams past on the straight, but Dovizioso returns the favour over the start-finish line.

15:36 Three laps to go. 0.563s between Vinales and Marquez, with the reigning champion refusing to let the Yamaha rider have this one without some intrigue.

15:36 Dovizioso and Petrucci have both come back through on Mir, and the former is now leading a four-bike battle for P4 (with Morbidelli also joining in on the fun).

15:35 Four laps to go, six tenths is the gap between Vinales and Marquez. Marquez is quicker in the first half of the lap, but slower in the second.

15:34 Abraham has crashed at turn 3. We're down to 16 bikes.

15:34 Five laps to go, and Vinales is 'pulling the pin', if you will. He's managing his best pace of the race, and is taking a tenth or two per lap out of Marquez.

15:33 Meanwhile, Petrucci has erred somewhere and he's dropped to sixth place, behind Mir and Dovizioso. They're all scrapping for fourth now, some five seconds behind Quartararo.

15:32 "No technical problem" with Zarco's bike, apparently. That's not a fantastic look, unless there was a major fitness issue.

15:32 Quartararo appears to have admitted defeat - he drops a second to the Vinales/Marquez duel, and will now likely be looking to consolidate third instead.

15:30 Dovizioso's pace is cratering, and he is passed by Mir, too. Win or not, this will be a very good day for Marquez's championship - if he just stays on the bike.

15:29 Vinales is back through on Marquez with eight laps left to run.

15:29 They looked like they had shaken off Quartararo at one point, but Vinales is now back with Marquez, and they're dicing again, and the rookie is edging back towards them.

15:29 Vinales is wide at Turn 1 again - and Marquez says 'thank you very much' as he takes the lead!

15:28 Current order: 1 Vinales, 2 Marquez, 3 Quartararo, 4 Petrucci, 5 Dovizioso, 6 Mir, 7 Crutchlow, 8 Morbidelli, 9 Miller, 10 Bagnaia, 11 P Espargaro, 12 Iannone, 13 Syahrin, 14 Oliveira, 15 A Espargaro, 16 Rabat, 17 Abraham.

15:27 Zarco, who was running as high as 10th at one point but dropped out of the points, retires from the race in the pitlane.

15:27 And immediately Marquez is all over Vinales. Just how much pace does he have?!

15:26 Noticing that Vinales is starting to build a bit of a gap out front, Marquez dives down the inside of Quartararo at Ramshoek and sets off after the race leader.

15:26 Quartararo has that weird back-straight shake again, and Vinales eases past into the lead. Quartararo is fighting with one hand tied behind his back here.

15:25 Vinales is now getting impatient behind Quartararo. You have to wonder if the Spaniard might just have the pace to make a break for it here. He's got another 11 laps to figure it out.

15:24 Dovizioso's starting to drop off - he's now being hounded by Petrucci, and is already well behind the leading trio.