How close do you like it? MotoGP's tightest racing yet

The season started with a top-shelf stoush in Qatar, where Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso got the better of Marquez in a last-lap battle – again – when he took the chequered flag 0.027secs ahead of his 2017 title rival, with third-placed Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) just seven-tenths of a second behind his compatriot for the race win. The most recent race in Thailand had a top four (Marquez, Dovizioso, Yamaha's Maverick Vinales and Rossi) split by just 1.564secs at the flag, Marquez winning by 0.115secs. In between we've had last-lap thrillers in the Czech Republic and Austria, pack battles for the victory in Argentina and Aragon, and very few runaway wins – Jorge Lorenzo's 6.730-second victory in Italy for Ducati is the year's biggest margin, and one of only two victories by five seconds or more.