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  • Pole.Marc Márquez runs alone: ​​even failing he gets the pole

Some members of the Yamaha Petronas, Diego Gubellini and Pablo Guillem , snorted before the times of Marc Márquez in training and his pilot, the thriving Fabio Quartararo , an optimistic kid in most circumstances, acknowledged his insufficiency. "Can you follow Marquez this time?" They asked. "I see it impossible," he replied.

Before even the race in Alcañiz, the protagonists already knew what would happen: Márquez escaped in the first round, opened a chasm behind him and added a victory - the seventh of the year - that leaves him only one step away from his sixth World Cup of MotoGP. In the next race, on October 6 in Thailand, he will celebrate another title if he ends up ahead of Andrea Dovizioso .

Perhaps the only surprise was the exaggeration. Up to six appointments this season, Argentina, Jerez, Le Mans, Montmeló, Sachsenring and Brno, Márquez had imposed himself, but never before. In the first round he was ahead with a second to the rest, in the third round there were already two, in the fifth round there were already three and so ... The World Cup leader only relaxed when he reached a margin of six seconds over the second, Dovizioso himself, who had to go back from the eleventh place. Behind him, Jack Miller snatched third place from Maverick Viñales in a strange duel.

Beyond the excellence of the current champion, the problems of the Italian explain the current inequality. This season Dovizioso has only opted for victory in two circuits, Qatar and Austria - curiously he achieved it in both - and in the rest of the appointments he has suffered even to climb the podium. The accident in Montmeló caused by Jorge Lorenzo and the brilliance of Márquez have changed the mood of the Ducati driver who, unlike in 2017 and even in 2018, has never been champion.

The race in Alcañiz was so monotonous that to encourage the public the screens were dedicated to show distant confrontations, such as the one that starred Cal Crutchlow and Aleix Espargaró for the sixth place or Andrea Iannone and Danilo Petrucci for the eleventh. Neither the performance of Valentino Rossi who finished eighth or of course that of Jorge Lorenzo, who started well, but finished penultimate, could lift a decided test since training.

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