MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 12 / AUGUST 2-4, 2019
AUTOMOTODROM BRNO / BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC
P66
almost within reach. With
one more lap, Crutchlow
might have been ahead.
Rossi was a lone sixth;
Fabio Quartararo (Petronas
Yamaha) had got ahead of
Petrucci on lap four and
stayed there.
Taka Nakagami (LCR
Honda) had been behind
Crutchlow after the start
but wasn't able to move
forward, staying in ninth to
resume the top-10 record,
interrupted when Rossi
knocked him off at Assen.
But he retained the place by
less than a second. In the
latter half of the race, in a
return of the slow-start/fast-
finish syndrome that Maver-
ick Vinales thought he had
put behind him, the Monster
Yamaha picked through and
closed right up.
Espargaro's KTM was
a lone 11th; Pecco Bag-
naia (Pramac Ducati) 12th,
Miguel Oliveira (KTM) 13th,
and Zarco regained 14th
from Lorenzo's Repsol
Honda sub Stefan Bradl
on the final lap for the last
points, with Tito Rabat
(Ducati) 16th.
After running in the top 10
after the start, a loss of rear
grip consigned Aleix Espar-
garo to 18th, even behind
teammate Andrea Iannone.
Joan Mir (Ecstar Su-
zuki) and Franco Morbidelli
(Petronas Yamaha) crashed
out together on the first lap
in an incident triggered by
Zarco; Syahrin fell a few
laps later.
Thus Marquez extended
his points lead yet again,
210 to Dovi's 147; then
Petrucci 129, Rins 114 and
Vinales 91.
(Above) Jack Miller
was ecstatic to land
a "real" dry-weather
podium finally.
(Right) Marquez
(center) extends his
points lead yet further
to a massive 67
points over Dovi (left).
