Buriram (Thailand) (AFP)

Spaniard Marc Marquez clinched his sixth World MotoGP title at the age of 26 on Sunday, the fourth consecutive, after a new anthology duel with Frenchman Fabio Quartararo, who, at 20, is one of his future opponents. more tough.

By winning the GP of Thailand on his Honda, Marquez did not do the detail and secured his 6th world crown in the queen class, his eighth overall, while there are still four races to run from here the end of the season.

"I wanted to win the race, the championship did not matter ... Fabio was really fast but I studied his tracks and I passed him," said the Spanish champion after passing Quartararo in the last lap .

"Dreams come true," he added as he equaled the number of Valentino Rossi titles in MotoGP (the Italian, however, one of more acquired when the championship was disputed with 500cc).

This is the second time this season, after the San Marino GP in Misano mid-September, that the Spaniard is cheating on the Frenchman, who is making his first season in MotoGP, the victory in the last meters.

But this one does not demoralize as much: "I am happy I can not say much thing I fought until the last turn and I tried everything I am really happy with the result and it will arrive soon ", he said, referring to his first MotoGP victory.

Marquez also repeated Sunday that the young French would be one of the main candidates for the title next year, Yamaha to entrust its SRT satellite team a machine equal to those of the factory.

The weekend, however, did not start well for Marquez, victim of a spectacular "sun" during the first free practice on Friday that had earned him a brief visit to the hospital. Bruised, he had nevertheless taken the track for the continuation of the tests the same day.

- The experience speaks -

It was however Quartararo who had achieved pole position, the starting Spaniard 3rd on the grid. The two men flew from the start, the Nice taking the lead he was not going to leave before the last lap despite Marquez's more and more insistent attempts to pass him.

But the experience has spoken and after having waited for his time, the Spaniard to the 53 victories in MotoGP has passed the French, the palmares still virgin at the top echelon.

"He's amazing on a bike," said Quartararo, saying his goal was also to become world champion and compete with his opponent in the coming seasons.

Italy's Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati), the last to still have a tiny chance to bar Marquez's march to the title, could do nothing. Starting 7th, he finished 4th, very far from the leading men.

The Italian team also sees the Yamaha be very strong at the end of the season and get closer to the provisional classification of the Constructors World Championship where it has only 6 points ahead of the brand at the tuning fork, while Honda caracole in head.

Spaniard Maverick Vinales on a factory Yamaha finished third on the podium, seizing fourth place in the championship behind Marquez, Dovizioso and his compatriot Alex Rins (Suzuki), fifth Sunday.

Starting 2nd, Vinales again missed his start and made a solitary race in 3rd position, finishing more than a second behind Marquez and Quartararo.

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