Johann Zarco heads
Alex Marquez through
the spray. Had the race
been two laps longer,
he might have had
something for Miller.
93 MARC MARQUEZ
DNF MOTOGP
"I'm disappointed with today, we
weren't able to profit from the special
situa on where normally we feel really
comfortable," said Marc Marquez. "The
posi ve is that we showed our speed
today, even a er the crash I was able
to be fast on the bike. It's true that we
didn't use the opportunity that the
weather gave to us. The first crash we
had can happen in the wet, maybe the
re was a li le cold, but I am more
disappointed with the second crash. It
was not the me to crash again. Maybe
I wasn't fully concentrated on the track
condi ons, I was thinking more about
changing back to slicks and I arrived
at turn six too fast and fell. This is very
disappoin ng. In a normal dry weekend,
I know it would be harder, we're happy
with our performance of the weekend
but not happy about Sunday because it
was not the best Marc on track."
MYOWNRACE
20 FABIO QUARTARARO
3RD MOTOGP
"This was the strangest race of my life,"
said Fabio Quartararo. "I had never
done a flag-to-flag race before. We
were so fast on slicks before it started
to rain. I saw that Maverick and Jack
were a li le bit careful in the first
Marquez wasn't the only one to
crash twice. The same fate befell
Suzuki's Alex Rins, once when
exiting pit lane at turn three and
the second with 15 laps remain-
ing. His teammate and World
Champion Joan Mir also crashed
out on lap five.
Miller's win came after running
off the track when the rain started
to come down and two long-lap
penalties incurred for speeding in
pit lane, a penalty that was also
handed to his teammate Frances-
co Bagnaia. Quartararo also had
to serve a long-lap penalty after
pitting in the wrong pit box for the
bike change to wet tires, eventu-
ally holding on for third.
Miller held off the charging
Zarco to win by 3.9 seconds, with
Quartararo holding off a similarly
MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 5 / MAY 14-16, 2021
BUGATTI CIRCUIT / LE MANS, FRANCE
P62
Miller leads Maverick Vinales
on lap two. The Aussie and the
Spaniard clearly had the early
speed, but the rain changed
proceedings dramatically.
