posted Jun 28, 2016, 9:19 PM by Takanobu Matsuki
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updated Jun 28, 2016, 9:19 PM by Paisal Komarwut
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Race
Report |
Sunday,
Jun 26th 2016 |
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TT Assen
MotoGP 2016
Round 8
Momentous
second place for Marquez in weather-affected Dutch TT
Marc Marquez’s
brilliant and very important second-place finish in one of the
trickiest races in recent years was enhanced by the amazing debut
win of Honda satellite rider Jack Miller, who perfectly mastered the
second part of the Dutch TT. The lottery that is a MotoGP race run
in such challenging conditions ruled out a possible podium finish
for Dani Pedrosa, who finished in 12th position after
crashing on the first lap of the race’s weather-prompted
restart.
The Assen TT
originally started approximately one hour after a strong 15-minute
downpour had heavily drenched the track. Marc had chosen a hard rear
rain tyre, while Dani opted for the softer version. That proved to
be the better solution, so although Marc managed to keep a decent
enough pace to maintain fourth position in the race’s first phase,
Dani was able to steadily recover ground from the back after the
rain started again. He had just overtaken his teammate when the
conditions became so difficult that Race Direction decided to put
out the red flag on lap 15. That meant that the new grid position
for the remaining 12-lap race was determined by the classification
of the previous lap—lap 14—with Marc in fifth and Dani sixth.
Race 2 got off at 3
p.m., and both Repsol Honda riders went out on the Michelin soft
rear rain spec. Marquez started well, entering the first corner
first, but he ran wide shortly after and dropped back to third
behind Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi. After the two Italians
fell ahead of him and Miller caught and then overtook him, Marc
wisely settled for the 20 crucial points that come with second
place, thereby extending his championship lead to 24 points over
Jorge Lorenzo and 42 over Rossi.
Like many others, Dani
was betrayed by the tricky conditions and crashed on the first lap
after the restart. He determinedly re-joined the race and was able
to finish in 12th, and lies 4th in the
standings 17 points down on Rossi. |
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Marc
Marquez
2nd
“Today’s race was
one of those in which you can either lose many points or gain
them, and you can face it with two mentalities: either you take a
risk to gain a bigger advantage, or you focus on finishing the
race in order to lose the fewest points possible. The latter is
the mentality that the team repeated to me about forty times
between this morning and today, and it is exactly what I did. I
tried to stay in the top five so as not to drop many points to
Valentino [Rossi] and attempted to not make mistakes in order to
finish the race. At the beginning of the first race I didn’t feel
comfortable and lost touch, but then I was able to recover. I
think that stopping the race was a good decision, because it was
very dangerous out there. In the second race I started off
thinking about pushing a bit more, but everyone was very fast and
I decided not to follow Rossi and Dovizioso because they were
going too quickly. However, both of them crashed later on. When I
saw Jack [Miller] stalking behind me, I knew that he would be
going for his first win so I preferred to let him pass and keep a
couple of seconds gap between us, as well as a cushion to third
place. I did that because with Jorge [Lorenzo] so far back and
Rossi out of the race, second place was as good as a victory. In
the end, we leave Assen with a bigger lead." |
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Dani
Pedrosa
12th
“It's been a pretty
tough weekend but races like today are a lottery. In the first
race it seemed that the strategy of running the soft tyre had gone
well. At first, when the track was drying, I went slowly, but when
it started to rain I upped my pace very quickly while others were
at a disadvantage. However, that was when the Race Direction
decided to stop the race. I felt unlucky, because it turned out
that thinking ahead or trying to pick a different strategy wasn’t
beneficial. In the second race I crashed on the first lap, because
I had a new rear tyre without too much grip. It has been a
difficult Grand Prix but we will try to find better solutions for
the next race and regain our feeling in order to go
faster." |
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Race PART 2
Classification after 12 laps
Pos. |
Rider |
Num |
Nation |
Points |
Team |
Time/Gap |
1 |
Miller
Jack |
43 |
AUS |
25 |
Estrella
Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS |
22'17.447 |
2 |
Marquez
Marc |
93 |
SPA |
20 |
Repsol
Honda Team |
1.991 |
3 |
Redding
Scott |
45 |
GBR |
16 |
Octo
Pramac Racing |
5.906 |
4 |
Espargaro
Pol |
44 |
SPA |
13 |
Monster
Yamaha Tech 3 |
9.812 |
5 |
Iannone
Andrea |
29 |
ITA |
11 |
Ducati
Team |
17.835 |
6 |
Barbera
Hector |
8 |
SPA |
10 |
Avintia
Racing |
18.692 |
7 |
Laverty
Eugene |
50 |
IRE |
9 |
Aspar
MotoGP Team |
22.605 |
8 |
Bradl
Stefan |
6 |
GER |
8 |
Aprilia
Racing Team Gresini |
23.603 |
9 |
Vinales
Maverick |
25 |
SPA |
7 |
Team
Suzuki Ecstar |
26.148 |
10 |
Lorenzo
Jorge |
99 |
SPA |
6 |
Movistar
Yamaha MotoGP |
27.604 |
11 |
Rabat
Tito |
53 |
SPA |
5 |
Estrella
Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS |
1'21.830 |
12 |
Pedrosa
Dani |
26 |
SPA |
4 |
Repsol
Honda Team |
1'54.369 |
13 |
Smith
Bradley |
38 |
GBR |
3 |
Monster
Yamaha Tech 3 |
3
laps |
14 |
Bautista
Alvaro |
19 |
SPA |
0 |
Aprilia
Racing Team Gresini |
1
lap |
15 |
Pirro
Michele |
51 |
ITA |
0 |
Ducati
Team |
7
laps |
16 |
Rossi
Valentino |
46 |
ITA |
0 |
Movistar
Yamaha MotoGP |
10
laps |
17 |
Espargaro
Aleix |
41 |
SPA |
0 |
Team
Suzuki Ecstar |
10
laps |
18 |
Dovizioso
Andrea |
4 |
ITA |
0 |
Ducati
Team |
11
laps |
19 |
Petrucci
Danilo |
9 |
ITA |
0 |
Octo
Pramac Racing |
11
laps |
20 |
Crutchlow
Cal |
35 |
GBR |
0 |
LCR
Honda |
Not
Finished 1st Lap |
21 |
Hernandez
Yonny |
68 |
COL |
0 |
Aspar
MotoGP Team |
Not
Started | |
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Rider Standings
Pos. |
Rider |
Num |
Nation |
Points |
Team |
1 |
Marquez
Marc |
93 |
SPA |
145 |
Repsol
Honda Team |
2 |
Lorenzo
Jorge |
99 |
SPA |
121 |
Movistar
Yamaha MotoGP |
3 |
Rossi
Valentino |
46 |
ITA |
103 |
Movistar
Yamaha MotoGP |
4 |
Pedrosa
Dani |
26 |
SPA |
86 |
Repsol
Honda Team |
5 |
Vinales
Maverick |
25 |
SPA |
79 |
Team
Suzuki Ecstar |
6 |
Espargaro
Pol |
44 |
SPA |
72 |
Monster
Yamaha Tech 3 |
7 |
Barbera
Hector |
8 |
SPA |
58 |
Avintia
Racing |
8 |
Iannone
Andrea |
29 |
ITA |
52 |
Ducati
Team |
9 |
Espargaro
Aleix |
41 |
SPA |
49 |
Team
Suzuki Ecstar |
10 |
Laverty
Eugene |
50 |
IRE |
48 |
Aspar
MotoGP Team |
11 |
Dovizioso
Andrea |
4 |
ITA |
43 |
Ducati
Team |
12 |
Bradl
Stefan |
6 |
GER |
37 |
Aprilia
Racing Team Gresini |
13 |
Miller
Jack |
43 |
AUS |
33 |
Estrella
Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS |
14 |
Redding
Scott |
45 |
GBR |
32 |
Octo
Pramac Racing |
15 |
Smith
Bradley |
38 |
GBR |
32 |
Monster
Yamaha Tech 3 |
16 |
Bautista
Alvaro |
19 |
SPA |
29 |
Aprilia
Racing Team Gresini |
17 |
Petrucci
Danilo |
9 |
ITA |
24 |
Octo
Pramac Racing |
18 |
Crutchlow
Cal |
35 |
GBR |
20 |
LCR
Honda |
19 |
Pirro
Michele |
51 |
ITA |
19 |
Ducati
Team |
20 |
Rabat
Tito |
53 |
SPA |
18 |
Estrella
Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS |
21 |
Baz
Loris |
76 |
FRA |
8 |
Avintia
Racing |
22 |
Hernandez
Yonny |
68 |
COL |
3 |
Aspar
MotoGP Team |
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Team
Standings
Pos. |
Team |
Points |
1 |
Repsol
Honda Team |
231 |
2 |
Movistar
Yamaha MotoGP |
224 |
3 |
Team
Suzuki Ecstar |
128 |
4 |
Monster
Yamaha Tech 3 |
104 |
5 |
Ducati
Team |
95 |
6 |
Avintia
Racing |
66 |
7 |
Aprilia
Racing Team Gresini |
66 |
8 |
Octo
Pramac Racing |
56 |
9 |
Estrella
Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS |
51 |
10 |
Aspar
MotoGP Team |
51 |
11 |
LCR
Honda |
20 | |
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Constructor
Standings
Pos. |
Team |
Points |
1 |
Yamaha |
178 |
2 |
Honda |
160 |
3 |
Ducati |
108 |
4 |
Suzuki |
85 |
5 |
Aprilia |
45 | |
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Location
Information
Assen is the only
venue to have held a round of the Motorcycle World Championship
every year since its creation in 1949. The circuit was purpose built
for the Dutch TT in 1955, with previous events having been held on
public roads. The track is narrow, with rapid changes in… read
more. |
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Length |
4.542
kilometres / 2.822 miles |
Width |
14
metres |
Left
corners |
6 |
Right
corners |
12 |
Longest
straight |
0.487
kilometres / 0.303 miles |
Constructed |
1955 |
Modified |
2012 |
Circuit
Records
Pole
Position |
1m
32.627s (176.5km/h) Valentino Rossi (Yamaha, 2015) |
Race
Lap |
1m
33.617s (174.6km/h) Marc Marquez (Honda, 2015) |
Race
Time |
40m
54.037s (173.2km/h) Valentino Rossi (Yamaha, 2015) |
2015
Race Winner |
Valentino
Rossi (Yamaha) |
TT Circuit Assen, De Haar,
Assen, The Netherlands – View in Google Maps
www.ttcircuit.com |
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