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The British, Cervera and Italian podium in the GP of the Czech Repúblca.
Issues for Jorge Lorenzo in a race that was disputed in rain.
So goes the MotoGP World Championship.
The British rider Cal Crutchlow (Honda) took victory in a thrilling Grand Prix of the Czech Republic MotoGP, played at the Brno circuit, ahead of Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) was second and Marc Marquez (Honda) who, despite starting from the pole, finished third being the best Spanish.
Coventry, who started from tenth on the grid, was one of the few drivers that ventured out to the wet path with both hard tires and this strategy helped him claim his first title in the top flight.
Valentino Rossi (Yamaha), meanwhile, took a great advantage of this result and managed to overtake in the championship to his teammate, the Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo, who was seventeenth. ‘Il Dottore’ has a total of 144 points 138 the Balearic pilot.
the Great Award began with the loss of positions ‘poleman’ Marc Marquez (Honda) in favor of Andrea Ianonne (Ducati) and Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha), although Catalan was able to recover after the first few corners .
the fact that the circuit contase with some very wet areas and other dry resulted anything could happen. Valentino Rossi (who came sixth) took advantage and was going up positions to finish second.
Marc Márquez (Honda) suffered some problems traction and acceleration in the final moments of career that were used by rivals such as Valentino Rossi (Yamaha), by which was overwhelmed. Finally was third and managed to keep the lead in the World with 197 points.
Trouble ‘Dovi’ and Lorenzo
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati), which had remained in the leading group for much of the race, suffered problems with his bike when leaving in second place and even went through the pit lane to try to fix it, things you were not quite right and ended up leaving.
Something similar happened to Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) that had to go into ‘boxes’ with seven laps to the conclusion of the test to change bikes, and one lap later returned to do the same so it was folded and could only finish 17th.
These two drivers were not alone in accusing the hardness of testing and Scott Redding (Ducati), that came to be in the top positions, fell to ninth place for reasons that are unknown to finally finish in fifteenth place.
as for the rest of Spaniards Hector Barbera (Ducati) he fought to the end for podium positions but had to confirm with the fifth position while Maverick Viñales (Suzuki) finished ninth, followed by Tito Rabat (Honda), tenth. Dani Pedrosa (Honda) was 12th and Alvaro Bautista finished in 16th place out of the points.