Marquez buoyant for German MotoGP after Assen victory
third set allowing the Giga Hitters to nail
and preserved it to a 17-14 cushion. But the Nationals refused to panic
Championship leader last week’s epic Assen race as motivation going into Sunday’s German Moto GP at Sachsenring.
The Repsol Honda rider finished atop the podium in the Netherlands after an incredible race that saw the first 15 riders cross the line just 16.043sec apart.
The track at Sachsenring is the shortest on the calendar at 3.67km (2.28 miles), but it is also tight
- mate Dani Pedrosa have dominated the German track, a road based circuit in-and-around the city of Chemnitz, Eastern Germany. They have won a staggering 14 times between them and stood together on the podium three times, in 2014, 2015 and 2017.
three classes at the German circuit where 10 of its 13 corners are left-handed, each success remarkably coming after starting from pole position.
After kicking off in the 125cc category in 2010, the Spaniard went on to win twice in MotoGP (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).
Pedrosa’s last MotoGP victory here came in 2012, having also won in 2007, 2010 and 2011.
“The victory we scored at Assen was important because it was a race where it was incredibly easy to make a mistake, but instead we were able to increase
“Now we go to a very different circuit where we’re normally very strong, but every year is different.”