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Marquez wins again and increases the advantage in the standings

(Paolo Lorenzi) There was no doubt, as it had gone in the past and how they went Sprint tests and race on the weekend. Marc Marquez resumed Sachsenring (where he had not left two years ago and had closed according to the slope year): his track. “Danke Sachsenring,” joked the king of the German circuit. “We are halfway through the way, I must still stay concentrated,” said Marc. It is difficult to think that someone can really undermine his primacy in the standings: 83 points on the second and 147 on the third. For the umpteenth time, his brother Alex ended behind him (15 times second out of 22 departures this year), despite being fresh from intervention on his left hand, fractured in Assen. Not even the third place of Bagnaia surprises (seven podiums here), if it were not that Pecco got it by virtue of the falls of Bezzecchi and Giannantonio, in front of him.

The two compatriots have self -elywed by a race that could bring them to the podium. By Giannantonio to the eighteenth passage, three laps after Romagna. Huge regret thinking about the race they were doing, especially Marco who started from the third box, had spotted the departure and ran on the wave of the second place conquered the day before in the sprint race. Fabio could count on the pass sported in trial (on Friday he had signed the new record of the circuit, trimming four tenths to Marc Marquez). Same dynamic: both fell to the braking at the bottom of the straight, critical point, the scene of different falls. Many, too many: eighteen lined up at the start (on a grid of 22) only ten have reached the finish line. Yesterday the list of starters had lost Vinales in qualifying and Morbidelli in the race; Bastianini had not even reached Germany due to a suspected appendicitis, Chantra was operated on the knee four days earlier. Today they ended up in the gravel, in addition to the two Italians, also Ogura, Acosta, Zarco, Mir, Oliveira and Savadori.