“Marc Marquez claimed his fourth victory of the season at Indianapolis, and took a firmer grip on the standings lead against Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo.
The record breaking MotoGP rookie became the first rider to take three MotoGP wins in the USA in a single season, having already won at both Austin and Laguna Seca and also became third rider of all-time to win three premier-class GP races in the same country in a single season and he is also the first rookie in the premier-class to win three back-to-back races since Kenny Roberts in 1978.
Marquez was spectacularly dominating all through the weekend, topping every session and breaking all the previous MotoGP records at the Brickyard and the 20-year old despite a bad start, showed an amazing maturity as he knew that tire life in the second half of the race would be vital, so he peserved his tires before making his moves.
“I am very happy to have taken another 25 points! I knew before we came here that this would be a good opportunity and I was able to take advantage of it.
I felt very good throughout the weekend, and I think this has been my best GP overall since coming into the premier class.
I was first in every session, so I couldn’t ask for more,” said the estatic Marquez.
In the race I decided to follow Lorenzo and Pedrosa, trying to save my tyres at the start.
When I saw that I was feeling good and had less fuel in the tank, I tried to attack.
In the end I was able to break away and have some fun sliding the bike around and enjoying how good the ride was! Now we head back to Europe, where we will try to continue working in the same way and see how many points we can pick up.
”Dani Pedrosa has to ride through the pain barrier and change his riding style in order to take second place and his first podium finish since Catalunya.
The veteran Repsol Honda rider is still not fit following his Sachsenring crash that left him with a fractured collarbone.
“Today I gave all I had.
I struggled to keep my energy up and I was forced to ride in a different way because of the pain I was suffering,” said Pedrosa.
“It’s been a tough, tough, tough race but also a tough situation.
In the last weeks I did not train physically.
I just cycled a little bit, static cycling, but couldn’t really do anything at the gym.
”“It was a difficult race, because I was fighting a lot against the bike but in the end I was able to keep up my pace and take a good second place! In other conditions I’m sure we would have done better, but we did all that we could under the circumstances today and should draw that positive from the day.