Repsol Honda Team’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez blazed a trail to victory at the 2018 MotoGP Grand Prix of Aragon and beat second-place Andrea Dovizioso to extend his advantage at the head of the 2018 MotoGP leaderboard.
Marquez, after two second and one third placed finishes in the last three MotoGP races, finished in 41min 55sec ahead of Italian duo Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) and Andrea Ianonne (Suzuki). At the Grand Prix of Aragon at the Motorland circuit in Alcaniz, Spain.
Marquez and Dovizioso jostled for position at the lead from the first flag to the last, but it was the Spaniard who made the most of Jorge Lorenzo's opening-lap crash to clinch his first win in more than two months. Marquez changed to a soft rear tyre just before the start of the race and took control in the last three laps, fending off the Ducati rider Dovizioso without much effort to win his home Grand Prix.
"Today, I took a risk, a gamble," Marquez said. "I put the soft rear tyre because during the weekend every time I put the hard I felt okay, but I didn't feel good.
"Sometimes I put the hard to be safe, but today I said, 'okay, I'll take a risk'. I was riding really good, really smooth in the beginning.
"I was able to follow Andrea in a good way, and we were fighting in the end, a great fight. Really top movement at the limit, I was one time in the green, was completely at the limit, but I enjoyed a lot."
The leader now boasts a 72-point cushion over Dovizioso at the top of the standings and doesn't look likely to be caught with only five races remaining, as he continues to search for a third consecutive MotoGP crown.
Marquez now has 246 points in the MotoGP standings, with Dovizioso second on 174 and Yamaha’s Italian veteran Valentino Rossi in third (159).
A monumental Marquez victory on home soil leaves the Honda rider with one hand on the title as the premier class head to Thailand for the first time in just under two weeks in 05 Oct - 07 Oct 2018.
The full results of the Grand Prix of Aragon 2018
"Sometimes I put the hard to be safe, but today I said, 'okay, I'll take a risk'. I was riding really good, really smooth in the beginning.
"I was able to follow Andrea in a good way, and we were fighting in the end, a great fight. Really top movement at the limit, I was one time in the green, was completely at the limit, but I enjoyed a lot."
The leader now boasts a 72-point cushion over Dovizioso at the top of the standings and doesn't look likely to be caught with only five races remaining, as he continues to search for a third consecutive MotoGP crown.
Marquez now has 246 points in the MotoGP standings, with Dovizioso second on 174 and Yamaha’s Italian veteran Valentino Rossi in third (159).
A monumental Marquez victory on home soil leaves the Honda rider with one hand on the title as the premier class head to Thailand for the first time in just under two weeks in 05 Oct - 07 Oct 2018.
The full results of the Grand Prix of Aragon 2018
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