VOL. 50 ISSUE 20 MAY 21, 2013
P79
There are certain
corners in MotoGP
where things happen.
The final chicane at the
Circuit van Drenthe in
Assen is one of those
places as Colin Edwards
found out in 2006.
HAT CORNERS IN GRAND PRIX REALLY MATTER?
now who can marry the two.
Fresh from his Marquez the Merciless days in Moto2, 20-yearold stripling Marc Marquez has
brought something with him that
doesn't relate to bike control or
whether or not the wheels are in
line. An insatiable desire to overtake.
He started from the outset,
and kept it up over the first three
races: dueled fiercely with Valentino Rossi in Qatar; slipped it
over on Dani Pedrosa in Austin,
then barged by Jorge Lorenzo in
an instantly infamous Rossi-like
move at Jerez. By the time you
read this there will doubtless be
more exploits.
For the TV generation, it
brought back indelible replays of