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Pedrosa ire as Marquez seals victory in Aragon
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Marc Marquez extended his points MotoGP lead by winning the Aragon Grand Prix yesterday, but his victory came only after he played a part in the crash of Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa.
Marquez grazed the back of Pedrosa’s bike when he was trying to pass him with 18 laps to go, causing Pedrosa to lose control and slide down the track with sparks flying.
“I touched him a little with the front of my bike, and they tell me I may have broken a cable and that’s why he fell,” said Marquez. “It was very unlucky. That doesn’t usually happen.”
The 20-year-old Marquez went on to overtake defending champion Jorge Lorenzo, who had jumped ahead with a great start on his Yamaha.
Marquez finished the race at the 5-kilometer MotorLand Aragon circuit in Alcaniz, Spain, in 42 minutes, 3.4 seconds. Lorenzo was 1.3 seconds behind. Valentino Rossi finished third, more than 12 seconds back on his Yamaha, ending a run of four straight fourth-place finishes.
Marquez’s sixth win of the season gave him one more than Lorenzo and broke his closest challenger’s run of winning the previous two races. Marquez is aiming to become the first rookie to win the title since American Kenny Roberts in 1978.
Marquez leads Lorenzo by 39 points with four races left. Pedrosa came in level on points with Lorenzo in second place but now trails Marquez by 59.
Pedrosa, who won here last year and turned 28 yesterday, had to be carried off the track by the medical crew. He later said that he was fine except for some pain in his pelvis.
Pedrosa, however, was angry at both his teammate’s riding style and the race stewards’ decision not to penalize the incident and others like it. “It’s easy to sum up what happened. Marc always rides to the limit when he has riders in front. He hit me from behind and that’s where my race ended. It doesn’t matter what he says.”
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