Alcañiz (Spain) (AFP)

Untouchable Sunday at the GP of Aragon, Marc Marquez is closer to a sixth world title by pocketing his 8th win of the season while there are only five races on the calendar.

For his 200th league race in all categories, the Spaniard and his Honda have not done any detail by finishing almost 5 seconds ahead of the second, the Italian Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati), he precedes from now on to the championship of 98 points.

He now needs to finish two points ahead of Dovizioso at the next GP in Thailand in 15 days to be crowned, a win yielding 25 points while he will remain after only four events.

"In Thailand I will have my first match point for the championship, I will try to win but I know that Dovizioso will be very strong too, the goal will be to fight for the win too. but I want to keep the same mentality, "said the 26-year-old champion.

Standing on his toes as he crossed the finish line, he also mimicked a fisherman bringing back a nice catch crossing the finish line, evoking a fishing trip a few days before the Grand Prix which allowed him to bring back a giant pike but also the fact that it gets even closer to the title.

- The Ducati in shape -

At 26, the Catalan crushes all records: 52 wins in MotoGP out of 122 starts, five world titles in MotoGP - and probably soon a sixth - plus one in Moto2 and one in Moto3, there is no more as Giacomo Agostini, Valentino Rossi and Angel Nieto to advance him to the pantheon of motorcycle racers.

In Aragon, Dovizioso made a superb comeback from the 10th place on the grid to the 2nd at the finish but his chances of winning a first title at 33 are dwindling from race to race.

"At the start (it left 10th ed.) It was difficult but I benefited from the incident between (Alex) Rins and (Franco) Morbidelli (who clung to note.) And it opened a door for me. But I decided not to push 100% to spare my rear tire and it helped me in the last laps to catch up with Maverick Vinales. "

The 3rd is also a Ducati driver, the Australian Jack Miller of the Pramac satellite team. This allows the Italian brand to keep in touch with the constructors' championship where it is still 65 points behind Honda.

But the Japanese manufacturer can hardly count on his factory team than on Marquez. His team-mate and compatriot Jorge Lorenzo can not recover from his early-season injuries. He finished Sunday 20th and penultimate and is only in 19th place in the championship.

- Quartararo 5th -

As for the Yamaha, if they had done good qualifications with the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo 2nd and the Spaniard Maverick Vinales 3rd, they clearly marked the pace in the race: Vinales failed at the foot of the podium and the "rookie" Quartararo did not could do better than 5th, outdistanced by the Ducati and the factory Yamaha.

As a result, Vinales remains 5th in the world championship and Quartararo 7th, just behind the Italian veteran Valentino Rossi also on Yamaha. But the mark in the tuning fork is only Ducati's 13 points in the Ducati constructors' standings, to which she can still hope to take the 2nd place.

The Aprilia showed up rather well in Aragon finishing in 7th place with Aleix Espargaro, the best result of the season for the Italian brand.

Aleix's brother, Pol, who runs for KTM, was unlucky this weekend by breaking a wrist on Saturday during practice. His participation in the next Thai GP in 15 days could be called into question, which would put the Austrian team in a dilemma after firing his teammate, the Frenchman Johann Zarco, a few days ago.

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