MOTOGP
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 7/JUNE 14, 2015
CIRCUIT OF CATALUNYA/BARCELONA, SPAIN
P106
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
A
t what point precisely does
the 2015 season stop being
about whether Marc Marquez
can resume his domination, and
come back to make it three titles in
a row?
Looks like it happened already,
quite suddenly, on the third of 25
laps of the 2.9-mile Montmelo cir-
cuit outside Barcelona.
Jorge Lorenzo's Movistar Ya-
maha led away, as for the last three
races. This time Marquez was in
hot pursuit, setting the fastest lap
on the second. Looked like he was
ready to attack at the notorious turn
10 at the end of the back straight:
the most crashed-at corner on the
calendar. But it was a mistake, or as
the champion preferred to describe
it, "a small problem."
Instead of diving inside, Marquez
just clipped the back of the Yamaha,
picked it up to run wide, and then
the Repsol Honda was barreling
into the gravel, towards an inevitable
dusty crash. It was Marquez's third
in seven races this year, his second
in succession. He is now almost 70
points adrift. Almost three races. It
will take a miracle…
JORGE LORENZO HAS CLOSED
THE GAP ON HIS TEAMMATE
VALENTINO ROSSI WITH HIS
FOURTH-STRAIGHT WIN
WHO
FLINCHES
FIRST?
