VOL. 54 ISSUE 36 SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 P79
My Own Race:
93 MARC MARQUEZ 1ST MOTOGP
"This was one of the best races of my career," said Marc
Marquez. "It gave me an amazing feeling because it required
incredible concentration to manage the tension the whole
time. It was very easy to make a mistake, and that's why I
decided to attack only on the final lap. That lap was amazing;
I took many risks, but with such a close season, it was worth
trying to get the five extra points for the win. Of course I was
thinking about the championship the whole race. At the begin-
ning the feeling wasn't so good, probably because there was
so much water on the track, and I had a couple of very scary
moments. Lorenzo was amazingly fast early on, and so was
Danilo later when he took the lead after Jorge's crash, but I
was able to follow him and finally to attack. "
04 ANDREA DOVIZIOSO 3RD MOTOGP
"In the end I'm happy with my third place because today I
wasn't able to find a perfect feeling with the bike," Andrea
Dovizioso said. "I tried to keep up with Marquez and Petrucci
and I did for 20 laps, but the track conditions were really dif-
ficult. When they began to lower their lap times I would have
had to take too many risks to stay in touch, and I preferred
to slightly drop my pace to bring home the 16 points for third
place, which is very important for the championship."
25 MAVERICK VINALES 4TH MOTOGP
"I'm happy with the result, because it is the best we could do,"
Maverick Vinales said. "Honestly, today we asked 100% of the
bike. I tried to get the best result and today that was fourth.
We have to continue to work in the same way, because today
was a good improvement compared to the wet race at the
Sachsenring, especially the handling of the bike. We still need
a lot of grip on the traction, so we have to keep going. I'll
have to push in Aragon and believe we can close the 16-point
gap to our rivals. On the dry we were really fast, I'm happy
we made another step here in Misano. I hope we can do the
same in Aragon.
99 JORGE LORENZO DNF MOTOGP
"What a pity about my crash!" Jorge Lorenzo said. "The bike
was going very well and I was riding pretty calmly, without
taking too many risks and trying to manage the tires well.
Unfortunately at a certain point I lost concentration trying to
change the mapping to a different electronic configuration,
I used the rear brake in a slightly different way and that was
enough to cause a high-side and make me crash. I'm very
disappointed about that because I think I could have won the
race by a distance and instead I had to retire."
