Marquez wins German MotoGP for seventh straight year

Spain’s Marc Marquez stretched his lead at the top of the MotoGP championship after the Honda rider roared back from a slow start off pole position to win the German Grand Prix on Sunday.

Binder, having battled most of the way with title rival Navarro for seventh, settled for eighth in the end, his lead in the championship decreasing by just one point to 47. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) +11.613 4. When I saw the first possibility I went in and changed the bike, to find the rhythm.

“And you don’t want to take that risk, because every time you go with slick tyres on the wet patches it’s very easy to make a mistake and to lose the race”.

“Now I will have some quiet and go to the swimming pool”. The last laps were really good.

“When the track started to dry I was losing positions because I didn’t feel safe or have confidence in the front tyre, either on braking or in the corners”.

Rossi qualified third at the Sachsenring, finishing 0.412 seconds behind polesitter Marc Marquez, to secure his fifth front-row start of the year, equaling his entire 2015 tally.

“But I’ll fight through to the end”. I’m very happy with how we worked with the team today: they did a great job preparing my bike after my crash in the warm-up, and then in the race our strategy proved to be ideal.

Aprilia rider Stefan Bradl was hoping to put on a show in front of home support in Germany.

Petrucci, also known as a wet-weather specialist, made his move past Dovizioso on lap four to move into the lead – while Miller overtook Avintia’s Hector Barbera as well as Marquez to jump into fourth.

But the track was drying, and Marc had planned a strategy with the team for such a case: switching to slick tyres as soon as conditions were safe enough to allow it. And so he did, entering the pit and changing bikes on lap 18.

The disappointment was clear to see on Redding’s face after holding onto third until the very last lap, although fourth was still his second best finish of a year plagued by technical issues. Judging by the performance from Marquez who switched a lot earlier, and Dovizioso and Crutchlow who changed when he did, then surely he would have been better and would have claimed a spot on the podium and vital championship points.

However a dry line emerged during the first half, as Danilo Petrucci led the way for Pramac Ducati, ahead of Andrea Dovizioso, Valentino Rossi, Jack Miller – who flew up from 16th on the grid – and Marquez.

The series now take nearly a month-long break before resuming in Austria on August 14.