That it does not matter how things begin but the way they end is a usual saying, but we have seen it in the GP of the Netherlands played in Assen this weekend. On Friday the thing did not paint very well for a Marc Márquez who suffered two very hard falls that, luckily, ended with a point in the chin and a lot of pain, but that they remembered how ephemeral success can be.
A hard reminder for Marc and a warning for everyone else that the Assen circuit, despite being one of the most spectacular in the championship (with the exception of a sector 1 that seems taken from a bad video game), it is also relentless and errors can be paid expensive because it goes very fast. Even so, what we have seen in Assen is that Marc is still Marc.
It seemed yes, but nobody can with Marc
This weekend the pole of the GP of the Netherlands was returned to be carried again by a Fabio Quartaro that, on a return and without traffic, is able to take until the last thousandth of the M1 and a little more. But when the Sprint Race began, despite the fact that Bagnaia left second and Álex third, Marc was able to recover quickly with a spectacular exit, and before finishing the first round he was already in front.
Fabio Quartararo’s fall! 😮💨
The Frenchman left the pole, but went to the ground when he rolled fourth …
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From that moment on and despite not being the fastest in all sectors, he gave a masterful lesson of defensive driving that led him to win the ninth Sprint Race of the season over ten possible, with Álex Márquez resigned for not being able to find a place to advance his brother. Marco Bezzecchi, again playing a great role, ended third with Di Giannantonio Cuarto, surpassing a Bagnaia that could only be fifth.
Neither Álex, nor Pecco, nor Bezzecchi, nobody could put a wheel to Marc in the Netherlands GP
It is always easy to speak and see ghosts where there are no and some began to question whether Álex Márquez directly did not want to advance his brother. It is not the first time in the season that these types of comments are heard, perhaps trying to destabilize the two Márquez brothers who, so far, have been superbly superior to the rest of the grill and, of course, of the Ducati pilots.
But time puts everyone in place and although Marc did not manage to leave in such a brilliant way on Sunday in the GP of the Netherlands, at the end of the second round he had already managed to place second with a Pecco Bagnaia that seemed to have a little more.
The Italian continues to demonstrate that when everything is in order for him it is fast, but coinciding with the advancement of Marc that arrived in the fifth round, Bagnaia began to lose a little rhythm, perhaps penalized for going behind his teammate, and it was Marco Bezzecchi who took the opportunity to get to Marc’s wheel.
As if he advanced every day there.
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Pecco could not return the play to Marc and Bezzecchi tried by all media, while Pedro Acosta and Álex Márquez engaged in a fight that ended in two contacts and the second of them, took Alex to the ground in a ugly fall after the brake handle on the impact and, later, to the hospital where the fracture of a bone of his left hand was observed.
Carrera direction considered as a career set the incident in which the two Spaniards touched each other and even if it were, the truth is that both had in their hand to avoid a contact that, however, everything indicates that it was fortuitous and not premeditated by either of them.
On the floor Álex Márquez! 😳😳😳😳
He wanted to return the overtaking to Pedro Acosta, they touched and the ’73’ went to the ground 😱
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But returning to the front of the race, Marco Bezzecchi continued pushing with everything while Bagnaia recovered rhythm, but none could advance or even try to a superb Marc who scored his second consecutive double after that of Mugello, which adds six victories of ten possible with two podiums, which has led 191 laps and that he has in his locker 307 points, 68 more than Álex Bagnaia
As we said, Bezzecchi, had to settle for the second position in the GP of the Netherlands, demonstrating that the RS Aprilia remains competitive there and in general, because it goes up to the sixth place and has available to Di Giannantonio and Morbidelli that ended sixth and seventh. Among the Italians were placed Pedo Acosta with a fourth place and Maverick Viñales with a fifth, demonstrating that the KTM continues to improve despite the fact that the great changes in the motorcycle are expected for some GP.
Raúl Fernández, on a solid weekend, ended up eighth with Enea Bastianini Ninth and Fabio Quartarar tenth after tracing after dodging the fall of Fermín Aldeguer who, by the way, could not dodge Joan Mir. Luckily, despite the hard of the fall, both Spaniards suffered importance.
Now there will be two weeks of rest that will come especially well to Álex Márquez, and then face another two consecutive weekends starting through the German GP in Sachsenring, and continuing for the Czech Republic before the holiday pause.
