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III IN THE PADDOCK
P126
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
I
t's pretty amazing just how
quickly Yamaha has undone
Honda. With Dani lagging
badly and Marc Marquez flying
off into the scenery with monot-
onous regularity, the Yamaha
pair are running away with it.
They look set to carry on too,
if the first third of the season is
anything to go by. Lorenzo has
been unbeatable for the past
four races, but the last one in
Catalunya was a very close run.
If Rossi could do something
about his perennially poor qual-
ifying, if he could have started
alongside or one row behind
Jorge, it might easily have gone
the other way.
Evergreen.
Of course, he would have to
have avoided getting hit by Mar-
quez. The Honda only struck
Lorenzo a glancing blow, but
two Yamahas would have made
a bigger target.
So just what has happened
over the winter? Last year Mar-
quez seemed to have put his
youthful indiscretions behind
him. He still frequently pushed
over the limit in practice, but
not only did he win most of the
races (13), he scored points
in every race but one. That
was the Australian GP, where
WHEN ONLY WINNING WILL DO
