Rounding out the top 10 was
Aprilia's Maverick Vinales, who
was 11 seconds up on Andrea
Dovizioso (WithU Yamaha) in
what was his best result of the
season so far.
In the championship, Quartar-
aro is now tied with Alex Rins at
69 points but leads the standings
on account of his race win, while
Rins is yet to score a W in 2022.
Aleix Espargaro holds third at 66
ahead of Enea Bastianini (Gresini
Ducati), who crashed out at
Portimao.
Moto2
After five years of trying, Joe
Roberts (Italtrans Kalex) is a
Moto2 winner after picking up
the pieces of a dramatic race in
Portugal.
The Californian's win is the first
for an American in the intermedi-
ate class in 32 years (since John
Kocinski in 1990) and came after
a red flag was flown following a
massive crash thanks to isolated
His race was better than team-
mate Jack Miller's, however,
after the Australian put the move
on Mir for third with seven laps
remaining at turn one, taking the
Spaniard out with him.
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43 JACK MILLER
DNF MOTOGP
"At the beginning of the race, I tried to
manage to save the res un l the end,"
Jack Miller said. "I had a good pace, and
my feeling was improving lap by lap. When
the others started to suffer, I felt I had
more than them. I caught Mir, and when I
thought I was close enough, I tried to pass
him on the inside. I touched the brake a lit-
tle, and maybe I ended up on a wet patch
(s ll present at turn one) and crashed,
bringing him down too. I am sorry, and I
apologized to him and my team."
93 MARC MARQUEZ
6TH MOTOGP
"It's not the result we want or want to be
figh ng for, but today we did not have
the feeling," Marc Marquez said. "Already
in warmup one, was not feeling how I
wanted, and we made a small change
for the race which helped a bit, but the
speed of our rivals was more than we
had. We were there figh ng with Pol at
the start of the race and then Alex in the
second half, it was an all-Honda ba le,
really. Within this ba le we were able to
come out on top, which was a posi ve,
but it's true this is not where we should
be. We need to be faster, in Jerez it's
me to be faster and finish closer to the
front."
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