MOTOGP
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 9/JULY 12, 2015
SACHSENRING CIRCUIT/SACHSENRING, GERMANY
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to a rather glum and relatively
distant fourth. Three races ago,
the old man of the grid was just
one point ahead. He goes on his
holidays with an advantage of 13.
Everything went right for Mar-
quez. After heading the first day
of practice, he said: "This is the
first Friday I haven't been making
changes to the bike."
He, along with teammate Pe-
drosa, was confident enough to
take a gamble on tires, selecting
the hitherto hardly used extra-
hard front that was a last-minute
addition to Bridgestone's usual
allocation; a nervous response
to a heat wave in the preced-
ing days. Race day was indeed
hotter than the previous two, and
"I wanted to have something for
the last lap," Marquez explained.
Not that he needed it.
The turn in his fortunes could
