Marquez’s tire degradation was too substantial to win the race. Rossi closed the 4.5 second gap in a matter of laps while setting lap records. Given another 0.5-1 laps Rossi would have been gone. Marquez looked like a Rookie crashing out like that. 20 points is far more valuable than 0. That being said, I really hope…

That’s right, and for whatever reason the Honda appeared to not work well on the extra hard compound. When Marquez was giving that a go, he was riding in 5th in warm up. I guess he had to choose: go with hard compound and push in order to gain an advantage so big that he would be out of reach towards the end, or go…

Best goddamn race I’ve ever seen so far. Rossi at his best, and them some. Marquez is good, but only when he’s in the lead. He’s not at all good in a dogfight and being put under pressure. Stay on Marquez’ ass(not exactly easy) and he’ll choke.

Great move by Rossi for the extra hard tire.