Andrea Dovizioso will go down in history as the one who was there, a figure at the time of Marc Márquez , a hard-working and constant runner-up, but it will be unfair: in fact, he was the only one capable of discussing the undisputed. Without the Italian it would be impossible to point out a weak point of the current champion, boring perfection would be a threat; Thanks to him, anyone guesses that, despite his dominance, Márquez suffers in closed duels, millimeter, side by side. In the last three years, Dovizioso has lacked a mordant to fight for the World Cup, but he has plenty of intelligence to defeat the Spanish in five of the six 'melee' that they have starred in. As happened in 2017 in Austria and Japan, in 2018 in Qatar and Austria and this year in Qatar, this Sunday in Austria, the Ducati rider took the victory in the last corner after an advance of his style: studied, precise, slow.
After a race in which both exchanged the test lead, Márquez came to the final lap ahead with Dovizioso just a few thousandths. The bet of the current champion was simple: in the first three sectors of the Red Bull Ring he would limit all the turns as if he were looking for the pole, he would risk the maximum, and in the end, in the worst stretch for his Honda, he would try to get rid of any possible overtaking. He fulfilled the first part. But not with the second. In the last corner, a right turn taken at about 170 km / h, Dovizioso launched himself inside and, although Marquez tried to respond, it was impossible. Once again, like all but Burinam last year, he watched the Italian celebrate the triumph and took the sweet consolation of the World Cup.
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