Published on July 14th, 2014 | by Daniel Sherman Fernandez

MotoGP Champion Marquez Takes 9th Win In A Row

Current MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez chalked up an easy 9th victory in a row on Sunday despite starting the German Grand Prix from a crowded pit-lane after pre-race rain at the complex Sachsenring circuit. Marquez’s Repsol Honda team mate and compatriot Dani Pedrosa finished second, 1.466 seconds behind the champion, with double world champion Jorge Lorenzo completing an all-Spanish podium with a 3^rd placing for Yamaha. Marquez, who now has 225 points to Pedrosa’s 148, became the first rider since Italian Giacomo Agostini in 1970 to win the first 9 races of a season. Agostini won the opening 10 races that year.

In an unusual start, 14 riders, including all the factory ones lined up together at the pit-lane exit after leaving it late and deciding to switch from wet tyres to slicks only on the warm-up lap.

That left Germany’s Stefan Bradl, who had put on the dry weather tyres before the formation lap, alone on the front row of the grid and followed at some distance by a bunch of backmarkers. Marc Marquez, the 21-year-old who last year became the youngest ever MotoGP champion, had qualified on pole but had to fight through from 10th while Pedrosa emerged 13th.

2014 ENI MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX DEUTSCHLAND – RACE RESULT (30 LAPS)
POS	RIDER	MOTORCYCLE	TEAM	TIME
1	93. MARC MARQUEZ	HONDA	REPSOL HONDA TEAM	41:47.664
2	26. DANI PEDROSA	HONDA	REPSOL HONDA TEAM	+1.466
3	99. JORGE LORENZO	YAMAHA	MOVISTAR YAMAHA MOTOGP	+10.317
4	46. VALENTINO ROSSI	YAMAHA	MOVISTAR YAMAHA MOTOGP	+19.194
5	29. ANDREA IANNONE	DUCATI	PRAMAC RACING	+23.509
6	41. ALEIX ESPARGARO	FORWARD YAMAHA	NGM FORWARD RACING	+27.809
7	44. POL ESPARGARO	YAMAHA	MONSTER YAMAHA TECH 3	+33.253
8	4. ANDREA DOVIZIOSO	DUCATI	DUCATI TEAM	+33.868
9	19. ALVARO BAUTISTA	HONDA	GO&FUN HONDA GRESINI	+34.231
10	35. CAL CRUTCHLOW	DUCATI	DUCATI TEAM	+34.676
11	45. SCOTT REDDING	HONDA	GO&FUN HONDA GRESINI	+37.744
12	7. HIROSHI AOYAMA	HONDA	DRIVE M7 ASPAR	+45.018
13	17. KAREL ABRAHAM	HONDA	CARDION AB MOTORACING	+45.177
14	69. NICKY HAYDEN	HONDA	DRIVE M7 ASPAR	+46.676
15	9. DANILO PETRUCCI	ART	OCTO IODARACING TEAM	+52.769
16	6. STEFAN BRADL	HONDA	LCR HONDA MOTOGP	+53.889
17	68. YONNY HERNANDEZ	DUCATI	PRAMAC RACING	+54.476
18	8. HECTOR BARBERA	AVINTIA	AVINTIA RACING	+56.215
19	38. BRADLEY SMITH	YAMAHA	MONSTER YAMAHA TECH 3	+56.293
20	5. COLIN EDWARDS	FORWARD YAHAMA	NGM FORWARD RACING	+1:04.083
21	23. BROC PARKES	PBM	PAUL BIRD MOTORSPORT	+1:10.928
22	63. MIKE DI MEGLIO	AVINTIA	AVINTIA RACING	+1:19.975
NOT CLASSIFIED
	70. MICHAEL LAVERTY	PBM	PAUL BIRD MOTORSPORT	+13 LAPS
LAP LEADERS: S.BRADL (1-5), M.MARQUEZ (6-30)

The champion was back at the front after 6 laps and he pulled away comfortably.

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MotoGP Champion Marquez Takes 9th Win In A Row

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