the Movistar Yamaha, who led a
Yamaha one-two-three – for the
first time since Le Mans in 2008.
That time it was Rossi, Jorge Lo-
renzo and Colin Edwards. This
time the same rider was second,
and third went to a flabbergasted
Bradley Smith.
"I saw it on the screen on the
last lap, and I thought: 'That can't
be right,' Smith said. "A bit later I
saw Valentino [Rossi] and Jorge
[Lorenzo] ahead, and there was
nobody else. Then I started mak-
ing a weird noise in my helmet."
So overcome with emotion in
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Conditions conspired against the
first-time-out dual-compound
(asymmetric) front tire. The softer
compound was on the right, and
won favor – but it was allied to the
harder compound, which meant the
tire was basically unusable.
Once again, all eyes were on Moto3,
where early leader Jack Miller – rac-
ing at home – has lost control of the
championship to the ever-improving
Honda of Alex Marquez. The color-
ful Australian remained philosophi-
cal, and had an entertaining way of
describing the nature or racing in
the smaller class. "You can't do any-
thing until the last three laps," Miller
said. "The rest is just donkeywork.
Somebody gets out front and pulls
the train along. Then in the last laps,
everyone is everywhere. You don't
know where the next guy is coming
from. It's fun racing, but quite stress-
ful. You almost need a rear-vision
mirror." Miller's most costly error was
at Aragon, where instead of settling
in to the donkeywork, he insisted on
trying to reclaim the early lead from
Marquez. They collided; he fell, and
scored zero points.
With the strong chance of an un-
precedented double-brother World
Championship, should Alex Mar-
quez take the Moto3 crown, older
brother Marc was somewhat torn in
how to help his sibling. "I don't want
to put extra pressure, but I want to
help," he said. "Moto3 is really dif-
ficult like we saw in Motegi, when
[Jack] Miller was in front and with
a small mistake he came fifth. The
best advice was "to keep the same
mentality and then you will have
some chance, like the last race."
Alex found the situation humorous
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