Valencia MotoGP: Marquez beats Quartararo for 12th win of 2019 - autosport.com

Marc Marquez capped off his sixth title-winning MotoGP season with a dominant victory in the Valencia Grand Prix to secure the 2019 teams' title for the Repsol Honda squad.

Petronas SRT Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo led for the first seven laps before being passed by a recovering Marquez, and was unable to mount a challenge to retake the position over the remaining tours.

Poleman Quartararo had run side by side with Pramac's Jack Miller on the run to the first corner at the start, but had to concede the lead to the rocketship Ducati.

He quickly disposed of Miller after a couple of corners and began to build up a small lead, while Marquez had to fight through from sixth after getting hung out at the first turn from second on the grid.

Quartararo held a margin of seven tenths of a second by the third lap, with Marquez soon up to second after snatching second from Miller at the final corner at the end of the previous tour.

The Honda rider slashed Quartararo's lead by a couple of tenths over the next three laps, and made his decisive move on the eighth tour of the 27-lap race at the Turn 11 left-hander - squeezing Quartararo out to the edge of the circuit on the exit.

Marquez immediately got his lead up to six tenths, though Quartararo was able to ensure this remained stagnant for a handful of laps.

Then with nine laps to go, Marquez moved a second out of reach for the first time and would ease across the line for his 12th win of the year by over 1.5s.

Quartararo came under some threat from Miller after he was passed by Marquez on lap eight, but was able to quash the Pramac rider's challenge and ended a sensational rookie season with his seventh podium.

Miller's attention was soon turned to fending off Ducati stablemate Andrea Dovizioso for the final podium spot.

He did so successfully and cruised to a fifth podium of the year ahead of Dovizioso and the Suzuki of Alex Rins.

Maverick Vinales' expected challenge for the victory never materialised, and he was consigned to sixth on the works Yamaha ahead of Joan Mir (Suzuki), his team-mate Valentino Rossi, and the Espargaro brothers - Aleix's Aprilia ahead of KTM-mounted Pol.

Jorge Lorenzo ended his career in MotoGP with his best result since June's Italian GP in 13th.

Fellow Honda riders Cal Crutchlow and Johann Zarco of LCR failed to see the chequered flag after crashes, with the latter walking away from a horrifying incident.

Zarco lost the front of his RC213V going through Turn 6, with Tech3 debutant Iker Lecuona doing the same just seconds later.

As Zarco got to his feet he was struck by the KTM. Both he and Lecuona appeared to escape uninjured.

Ducati's Danilo Petrucci crashed at the same turn just moments before, while SRT's Franco Morbidelli, Andrea Iannone (Aprilia) and Ducati wildcard Michele Pirro also failed to finish.

Race result

Pos	Rider	Team	Laps	Gap
1	Marc Marquez	Honda	27	41m21.469s
2	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha	27	1.026s
3	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	27	2.409s
4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	27	3.326s
5	Alex Rins	Suzuki	27	3.508s
6	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	27	8.829s
7	Joan Mir	Suzuki	27	10.622s
8	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	27	22.992s
9	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	27	32.704s
10	Pol Espargaro	KTM	27	32.973s
11	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	27	42.795s
12	Mika Kallio	KTM	27	45.732s
13	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	27	51.044s
14	Karel Abraham	Avintia Ducati	27	1m04.871s
15	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 KTM	27	1m16.487s
-	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	26	Retirement
-	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha	18	Retirement
-	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	13	Retirement
-	Johann Zarco	LCR Honda	13	Retirement
-	Iker Lecuona	Tech3 KTM	13	Retirement
-	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	10	Retirement
-	Michele Pirro	Ducati	8	Retirement
-	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Ducati	0	Withdrawn

Riders' standings

Pos	Rider	Points
1	Marc Marquez	420
2	Andrea Dovizioso	269
3	Maverick Vinales	211
4	Alex Rins	205
5	Fabio Quartararo	192
6	Danilo Petrucci	176
7	Valentino Rossi	174
8	Jack Miller	165
9	Cal Crutchlow	133
10	Franco Morbidelli	115
11	Pol Espargaro	100
12	Joan Mir	92
13	Takaaki Nakagami	74
14	Aleix Espargaro	63
15	Francesco Bagnaia	54
16	Andrea Iannone	43
17	Miguel Oliveira	33
18	Johann Zarco	30
19	Jorge Lorenzo	28
20	Tito Rabat	23
21	Stefan Bradl	16
22	Michele Pirro	9
23	Hafizh Syahrin	9
24	Karel Abraham	9
25	Sylvain Guintoli	7
26	Mika Kallio	7
27	Bradley Smith	0

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2019-11-17 13:59:49Z
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