MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 14 / OCTOBER 5-7, 2018
CHANG INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT / BURIRAM, THAILAND
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Dovizioso still found some
comfort in spite of the defeat.
"It's not nice to lose in the last
seconds, but I am happy be-
cause this track was not ours,"
said Dovizioso who had to fly the
flag for Ducati after teammate
Jorge Lorenzo was a non-starter
after a massive highside crash
on Friday (see In The Wind). As
at Aragon, the result proved the
Three times last year, the roles
had been the other way around.
"This time it was the opposite,"
said an exultant Marquez, whose
seventh win of the year extended
his points lead, giving him a clear
chance of tying up his fifth Mo-
toGP championship in six years
of trying at Honda's home track
of Motegi in a fortnight. "I was
Dovi, and he was Marquez."
On the last lap, the Ducati rider
had been pushed to second on
turn five, and this time Marquez
made it stick. Until the last cor-
ner—turn 12—he moved up the
inside to out-brake Marquez's
Repsol Honda and claim the apex.
But he ran wide on the apex while
Marquez flicked back underneath,
and crossed the line just over a
tenth of a second ahead.
