GP of the Netherlands MotoGP – Marquez (3rd): "I played the card of safety"

Marc Marquez loses a place in the MotoGP provisional standings and cedes third position to Valentino Rossi, winner of the 2017 Dutch GP. But the Honda official, third in Assen after an electric final with Crutchlow and Dovizioso, believes that the essential is elsewhere: his wisdom combined with the fall of Viñales totally revives him for the title ! MNC Statements and Analysis.

Marc Marquez, Honda-Repsol (2nd in qualifying and 3rd in race): "I’m very happy with this podium and our race. The conditions were pretty tricky, we could easily win or lose big points. So I played the card, let’s say, for safety … I might have. to have been able to fight for the victory, but honestly I had some alerts and I said to myself that it was too risky for the championship ".

 

"So I decided to be consistent and to attack in the last laps. It was not easy to pinpoint the limits, but I think I did quite well. We have only 11 left. points behind the leader, which is the most important. We are now going to circuits which should be more successful for us. We will continue to work hard and we will see what happens. "…

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Site analysis: Again a "wise" race for Marc Marquez, who understood as soon as beating the M1s would be difficult at the 2017 Dutch GP: "the Yamaha are a cut above in the dry", analyzed the holder on Friday evening. of the title, before passing very close to pole position on the dryer the next day.

Finally starting from second place on the grid behind, Marquez strove throughout the first part of the race to overcome the instability of his official Honda, his biggest problem during this 8th meeting of the season: "the bike was moving a lot, I was shaken all the time, "he explains before admitting that he eased off when the rain started to fall eight laps from the finish.

• MNC Live – Dutch GP Qualifying: first pole for Zarco in the wet

"It was very difficult to define the limits in this light rain, and after a few heat I started to calm down a bit thinking about the championship", relates the defending champion who signs with this third place his worst result in MotoGP on the Batavian circuit.

"I could not afford to lose any more points", adds the n ° 93 who did not however save himself to snatch the podium from the gloves of Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso, returned with a bang when the track got wet! The Spaniard finally won with just 0.042 sec ahead of the Honda-LRC and 0.126 sec over the official Ducati, after a fierce struggle !

If he cedes third place in the provisional classification to the winner Valentino Rossi, Marc Marquez is nevertheless very satisfied with the turn of events: thanks to the fall of Viñales and the 5th place of Dovizioso in Assen, the n ° 93 comes back to only eleven points from "DesmoDovi", new leader of the championship ahead of Viñales, Rossi and Marquez !

Enough to approach with some confidence the German GP scheduled for next week at the Sachsenring, where Marc Marquez has been undefeated since … 2010! The native of Cervera has indeed won a victory in 125 cc, two in Moto2 and four in MotoGP: a new success would be particularly welcome for Marquez, who has won only once since the start of the season (at Austin). 

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