VOL. 53 ISSUE 13 APRIL 5, 2016 P65
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
S
corching weather,
disintegrating tires,
a crashing world
champion, rain disrupting
everything, a compulsory
pit stop and an extraor-
dinary red-on-red attack
robbing Ducati of a double
podium. It's the Argentine
GP. What could possibly
go wrong?
For Marc Marquez,
nothing much, aside from
tripping and falling off the
top step of the podium.
The whole weekend had
been fraught after Scott
Redding's rear Michelin
shed a swathe of tread at
high speed in practice.
Plans were made to use
the reserve "safety" tire,
but race-morning rain inter-
vened, and hasty revisions
saw a shortened MotoGP
race with a mandatory bike
swap, to avoid overtaxing
the tires—a method used to
save the day for Bridges-
tone in Australia in 2013.
There's that
familiar smile…
The second half
of Marquez's race
was on point.
