Now we have to think about Jerez and begin to recover points.”
I’ve always said that he’s my idol and my reference, so you always learn things from him. When he caught me, we fought for a few corners and unfortunately we touched and I crashed. On the final laps I went back to riding in the low 1’39s to check that the tyres were still in good shape, and knew that we would be fighting to the end. When I saw that he was closing in on me, I decided to conserve the tyres a little. The strategy was working out well for us – it’s just a pity about the last two laps. Marc Marquez – DNF – “It’s a shame what happened, because we were having a good race! It was interesting, because our tyre choice was different from Valentino’s as I felt we were not as competitive the harder compound. Although Marquez was not best pleased, Race Direction ruled it as a “racing incident” and took no further action. Marquez was not going to let the Italian pass him without a fight though, and in the ensuing battle the riders touched a couple of times, before Marquez clipped the back of Rossi’s bike and crashed out of the race. It was like watching a ticking time bomb as Rossi made huge in-roads into Marquez’s lead, finally catching him with just 2 laps to go. Rossi then set about hunting down Marquez, as the Spaniard’s tyre performance started to fall away, and it suddenly became apparent he would be able to catch the Honda. “The Doctor” moved into 2nd place at the expense of Dovizioso on the Ducati Team GP15 with 15 laps to go. Marquez took advantage of his hard tyres extra grip early on in the race to extend his lead to over 4 seconds, all the while though Movistar Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi was making his move through the field. The Spaniard was able to make a break at the front almost immediately to lead by 0.8s at the end of the first lap. This would prove crucial later on in the race, but it was Aleix Espargaro who led the pack into turn one on the Team Suzuki Ecstar, but it didn’t take long for Marc Marquez to make his move for the lead.
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