Marquez gets 10th Sachsenring win in a row, MotoGP rival Rins crashes - autosport.com

Honda's Marc Marquez won at the Sachsenring for the 10th consecutive year in dominant fashion as closest MotoGP rival Alex Rins crashed out.

Marquez had a sluggish getaway from pole and Fabio Quartararo was in front of him as they entered the first corner, but the Honda rider out-braked Quartararo on the outside line to lead.

Quartararo lost several places in the first couple of corners and was running in sixth when he crashed out at the Castrol Omega bend next time around while trying to pass Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci.

That meant Marquez found himself under severe pressure by Maverick Vinales during the opening laps, but the Yamaha rider soon dropped off and was overtaken by Rins.

Marquez was able to extend his lead to around three seconds with Rins failing to keep up the pace before he crashed at the Turn 11 kink and retired for the second race in a row.

The MotoGP title favourite's lead then became five seconds and he cruised to the finish to score his fifth win of the season by 4.5s to end the first half of the season with a 58-point advantage.

Vinales was closely followed by Cal Crutchlow for the majority of the race but the LCR Honda rider could not find a way past, and Vinales held onto second place.

But Crutchlow still scored his first podium since the Qatar season opener, despite nursing a fractured right knee.

Fourth place was hotly contested among the three Ducatis of Andrea Dovizioso, Petrucci and Jack Miller.

Petrucci was in front for most of the race, but Dovizioso passed him with three laps to go and forced his team-mate wide, allowing Miller through as well.

But Petrucci then re-passed Miller and Dovizioso to finish fourth.

Miller finished sixth, with Joan Mir taking seventh after the Suzuki rider kicked off a late-race charge but proved unable to make his way past the Ducatis.

Valentino Rossi made limited progress from 11th on the grid and settled for eighth ahead of fellow Yamaha rider Franco Morbidelli.

Aleix Espargaro threw away a top 10 result with a late crash at the first corner allowing Stefan Bradl, Jorge Lorenzo's replacement, to finish 10th in his home race.

KTM's Johann Zarco and Miguel Oliveira both fell at Turn 3 early on.

Race result

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Laps	Gap
1	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	30	41m08.276s
2	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	Yamaha	30	4.587s
3	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	30	7.741s
4	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	Ducati	30	16.577s
5	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	30	16.669s
6	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	30	16.836s
7	Joan Mir	Suzuki	Suzuki	30	17.156s
8	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	30	19.110s
9	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha	Yamaha	30	20.634s
10	Stefan Bradl	Honda	Honda	30	22.708s
11	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	30	26.345s
12	Pol Espargaro	KTM	KTM	30	26.574s
13	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	Aprilia	30	32.753s
14	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	Honda	30	32.925s
15	Karel Abraham	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	30	37.934s
16	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 KTM	KTM	30	41.615s
17	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	30	56.189s
18	Miguel Oliveira	Tech3 KTM	KTM	30	57.377s
-	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	Aprilia	28	Retirement
-	Alex Rins	Suzuki	Suzuki	18	Retirement
-	Johann Zarco	KTM	KTM	2	Retirement
-	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha	Yamaha	1	Retirement

Riders' championship

Pos	Rider	Points
1	Marc Marquez	185
2	Andrea Dovizioso	127
3	Danilo Petrucci	121
4	Alex Rins	101
5	Maverick Vinales	85
6	Valentino Rossi	80
7	Jack Miller	70
8	Fabio Quartararo	67
9	Cal Crutchlow	67
10	Pol Espargaro	56
11	Franco Morbidelli	52
12	Takaaki Nakagami	50
13	Joan Mir	39
14	Aleix Espargaro	31
15	Andrea Iannone	21
16	Jorge Lorenzo	19
17	Johann Zarco	16
18	Miguel Oliveira	15
19	Tito Rabat	14
20	Stefan Bradl	12
21	Francesco Bagnaia	11
22	Michele Pirro	9
23	Sylvain Guintoli	3
24	Karel Abraham	3
25	Hafizh Syahrin	3
26	Bradley Smith	0