Repsol

Honda’s Marc Marquez has continued his perfect season and has become the first rider since Mick Doohan in 1997, also aboard a Repsol Honda machine, to win ten successive premier class GP races. Teammate Dani Pedrosa recovered from his eighth place position on the grid to take fourth place.

It was a frantic start to the race with Marc losing out from his pole position dropping positions and Dani making a strong start passing three riders. By the end of the first lap Marc was fourth and Dani fifth, then on lap two, Marc passed Iannone into third and Dani was passed by Lorenzo, demoting him to sixth. The top eight riders stuck together in a pack for the opening laps, with just tenths of seconds separating them. Then on lap six Marc took advantage of Rossi and Dovizioso sparring for position and running wide, and slipped into first position. Rossi re-passed Marc on the same lap but Marc remained in second place ahead of Dovizioso.

By lap ten Lorenzo had passed Dovizioso into third and at the start of lap eleven he passed Marc into turn one to claim second place. However, after immediately attacking Rossi into turn two, both riders left a gap for Marc to pass and the championship leader never looked back, recording the fastest race lap on lap seventeen (1’32.831). Dani passed Dovizioso on lap thirteen and sealed fourth position.

With his victory in Indianapolis Marc has made it a perfect ten from ten, and also earns Honda’s tenth consecutive win on American soil (since Indianapoils 2010). He’s also won in all his MotoGP appearances in the USA and for the second year in a row, he’s completed a perfect weekend in Indianapolis after qualifying on pole and also setting a new lap record on his way to winning. This 16th MotoGP win for Marc also celebrates the 100th win for Spain in the premier class (Lorenzo 31, Pedrosa 25, Marquez 16, Criville 15, Gibernau 9, Checa 2, Elias 1, Puig 1).

Marc increases his lead in the Rider Championship with 250 points. Dani remains in second on 161 with Rossi in third on 157. Honda also lead the Constructor Championship by 76 points, and the Repsol Honda Team lead the Team Championship by 137 points.

There will be no break now for the MotoGP paddock as they pack up tonight in Indianapolis and head back across the Atlantic to the Czech Republic for Round 11 in Brno next weekend.

TEAM QUOTES

1st - Championship Standing: 1st - 250 points

"I am really happy to have taken this win! After the summer break it was important to start with another victory. Yesterday it seemed like it may be a straight forward race, but it ended up being quite the opposite. We suffered a lot and physically it was hard, there was a lot of humidity and I was sweating a lot. The track temperature rose by 10 degrees today and this made the tyres behave differently. It was hard for me to have the same level of confidence. I was patient at the beginning and when I regained the good feeling I had in practice I decided to push, opening that two-second gap which in the end was enough for the win”

4th - Championship Standing: 2nd - 161 points

“Overall it has been a difficult weekend in which at no point did I feel good on the bike. We couldn't find a good setup in practice. Then in the race, although I was able to move up a few places, I was always off the pace if I was going to fight for the podium”

RACE RESULTS

  Indianapolis Grand Prix - Round 10

Pos.

Rider

Num.

Nation

Points

Team

Constructor

Time/Gap

1

Marc Marquez

93

ESP

25

Repsol Honda Team

HONDA

42'07.041

2

Jorge Lorenzo

99

ESP

20

Yamaha Factory Racing

YAMAHA

+1.803

3

Valentino Rossi

46

ITA

16

Yamaha Factory

YAMAHA

+6.558

4

Dani Pedrosa

26

ESP

13

Repsol Honda Team

HONDA

+10.016

5

Pol Espargaro

44

ESP

11

Monster Yamaha Tech 3

YAMAHA

+17.807

6

Bradley Smith

38

GBR

10

Monster Yamaha Tech 3

YAMAHA

+19.604

7

Andrea Dovizioso

4

ITA

9

Ducati Team

DUCATI

+20.759

8

Cal Crutchlow

35

GBR

8

Ducati Team

DUCATI

+39.796

9

Scott Redding

45

GBR

7

Go & Fun Honda Gresini

HONDA

+40.507

10

Hiroshi Aoyama

7

JPN

6

Drive M7 Aspar

HONDA

+55.760

11

Karel Abraham

17

CZE

5

Cardion AB Motoracing

HONDA

+1'05.130

12

Mike Di Meglio

63

FRA

4

Avintia Racing MotoGP

FTR-KAWASAKI

+1'05.346

13

Colin Edwards

5

USA

3

NGM Mobile Forward Racing

YAMAHA

+1'08.919

14

Michael Laverty

70

GBR

2

Paul Bird Motorsport

ART & PBM

+1'09.203

15

Broc Parkes

23

AUS

1

Paul Bird Motorsport

PBM

+1'30.613

16

Leon Camier

2

GBR

Drive M7 Aspar

HONDA

DNF

17

Andrea Iannone

29

ITA

Pramac Racing

DUCATI

DNF

18

Aleix Espargaro

41

ESP

NGM Mobile Forward Racing

YAMAHA

DNF

19

Stefan Bradl

6

GER

LCR Honda MotoGP

HONDA

DNF

20

Danilo Petrucci

9

ITA

IodaRacing Project

IODA-SUTER

DNF

21

Hector Barbera

8

ESP

Avintia Racing MotoGP

FTR-KAWASAKI

DNF

22

Yonny Hernandez

68

COL

Pramac Racing

DUCATI

DNF

23

Alvaro Bautista

19

ESP

Go & Fun Honda Gresini

HONDA

DNF

[caption id="attachment_3271" align="alignright" width="300"] Marc Marquez celebrates after winning his 10th title of the season from 10 races in Indianapolis. A Honda image[/caption]

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