MOTO GP

Quartararo wins at Sachsenring

Since 2010 the Spanish anthem had been played on the podium of the German Grand Prix. That year Dani Pedrosa began a winning streak for national motorcycling and also for Honda, which Marc Márquez would inherit in 2013 to sweep throughout the decade. Today Fabio Quartararo has put an end to a period in which the Sachsenring circuit had been the private preserve of Honda.

And how Fabio Quartararo has inherited the throne of 'Marquezring', as it was called for so many years. The French signed a masterpiece from the start. He knew that the key was to pass Pecco Bagnaia at the start and he took the risk to the limit. As he had risked with the medium tire on the grid, when almost everyone wore the hard rear Michelin.

With no one to stop him, he let the Yamaha run on a not-so-smooth circuit and ran away. In a race with very harsh heat conditions (“much worse than in Indonesia”, said Fabio), which takes the physical to the extreme with 30 laps and where the fall of the tire wreaks havoc, Fabio Quartararo did not make a single mistake and gave a blow, another one, to the championship.

With his fall Pecco Bagnaia has said goodbye to the championship. Enea Bastianini is no longer the one from his beginnings and the only one who resists El Diablo's push is Aleix Espargaró, who despite losing the podium in the last laps, continues adding and keeps the French rider at a distance in which he still can dream, 34 points. And up the whole, Johann Zarco, who is already third in the provisional and who is now the reference in Ducati.

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