MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 5 / MAY 18-20, 2018
BUGATTI CIRCUIT / LE MANS, FRANCE
P82
start of lap five. At the next corner, La
Chapelle, he lost the front under braking,
and was down, shaking his head in baf-
flement. "I was only pushing 80 percent,"
he said. "If you crash at 100 percent, that
happens. But this was bad."
Long before, on only the third corner,
Andrea Iannone (Ecstar Suzuki) went
flying.
This left the stage clear for another
demonstration of superiority by Marc
Marquez and the Repsol Honda RC213V.
He finished lap one fifth, watched the
mayhem, and was ahead of Zarco when
the Frenchman fell. Now there was just
Lorenzo, and he waited until the 10th lap.
The only rider to choose the hard rear
tire, he needed to get it fully up to tem-
Petrucci leads Marquez and
Rossi in the early stages.
Marquez is crushing
them in MotoGP,
and it was no
different in France.
