MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
P62
ROUND 11 / JULY 5-9, 2019
SACHSENRING/ OBERLUNGWITZ, GERMANY
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
F
ans saw a great race at the German
GP—fierce, close, and varied to the
bitter end. It was for fourth place.
Miles away, all alone up front, Marc
Marquez (Repsol Honda) made the
remarkable look mundane, as he
sauntered away to a 10th successive
Sachsenring pole-to-flag victory, grab-
bing a new lap record on the way.
It was a remarkable performance at
the super-tight car-park circuit, where
the anti-clockwise layout echoes his pre-
ferred left-hand, dirt-track training, and
where the continuing refinement to his
style and his Repsol Honda, once
again, paid dividends.
Just short of halfway through the year,
after the ninth of 19 races, Marquez
goes off for the three-weekend summer
break with a title lead of more than two
race wins. If he was to miss the next two
races and Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso
win both of them, the five-times cham-
pion would still be in the lead.
Non-finishes are, of course, possible.
Marquez did crash out of the lead at
round three in Texas. But at every
other race this year Marquez has been
either first (five times) or second. To
describe the 26-year-old as being "in
his pomp" would understate the case.
ON
Another Planet
No one got near Marc
Marquez in Germany.
