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lap he'd got past Johann Zarco
(Monster Yamaha).
Second Movistar Yamaha
rider Maverick Vinales was left
glum again after the big improve-
ment at Buriram turned out to be
specific to that circuit. He was
another five seconds away in
seventh, saying "every area was
an issue."
Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda)
had ceded the position to the
Yamaha with five laps left, disap-
pointed with "a difficult race."
Likewise, it was a lonely ninth-
placed Danilo Petrucci (Alma
Pramac Ducati) who had quali-
fied way down in 15th.
There was a lively scrap for
10th, finally won by Hafizh Syah-
Andrea Iannone was on a charge before losing the
front and careening through the gravel trap.
Pol Espargaro
leads the perennial
bottom half of
Bradley Smith,
Scott Redding and
Franco Morbidelli.
