MotoGP: Marc Marquez won in Indianapolis to make it 10 in a row
Sunday 10 August 2014 21:40, UK
World champion Marc Marquez kept his perfect season intact by powering to victory in Sunday’s Indianapolis Grand Prix.
The Spanish Honda rider has now won 10 races in a row, the first man to accomplish that feat since Mick Doohan in 1997.
However, the 21-year-old Marquez is comfortably the youngest man to win 10 in succession, Mike Hailwood having been 24 when he pulled it off in 1964.
Marquez also became the first back-to-back winner of the Indianapolis Grand Prix, coming home in front of the Yamaha duo of Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi.
Marquez began on pole but started badly at the Brickyard and fell back to fourth as Rossi took the lead.
Rossi and his fellow Italian Andrea Dovizioso then made contact on a corner, losing speed and allowing Marquez to surge past them both and into the lead.
However, Rossi was not finished and fought back to regain the advantage, only to be passed again by Marquez on lap 11.
And Marquez could not be caught this time, eventually finishing 1.803 seconds clear of Lorenzo, who got past Rossi to claim second.
The world champion now has a perfect 250 points for the season with Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa, who finished fourth on Sunday, in second spot on 161.
Rossi has 157 points while 2010 and 2012 champion Lorenzo is on 117 points, ahead of the 11th round of the championship at Brno in the Czech Republic next weekend.
