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MotoGP gets youngest race winner in Marquez
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April 23, 2013, Tuesday
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SPAIN'S Marc Marquez won the Grand Prix of the Americas on Sunday, becoming the youngest rider to win a race in the sport's elite MotoGP series.
The 20-year-old Catalonian, last year's Moto2 world champion, triumphed over his Repsol Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa, with Yamaha factory rider Jorge Lorenzo in third.
Marquez started from pole position in just his second MotoGP race, and with a time of 43min 42.123sec finished 1.534sec ahead of Pedrosa and 3.381sec in front of Lorenzo, the reigning world champion and winner of the season-opening race in Qatar earlier this month. Marquez had finished third in Qatar in his first MotoGP start and his qualifying performance on the new Circuit of the Americas made him the series' youngest ever pole winner.
"To be third in my first race in Qatar was a dream and now, to take the victory in the second race - that's even better!" Marquez added.
"The race was quite hard, especially in terms of physical condition towards the end, with corners like turn one. I had some problems with the front that I hadn't had in practice, but even with that, I was able to push and keep up a constant rhythm - not so fast, but enough."
Lorenzo notched the 100th podium finish of his career.
The 20-year-old Catalonian, last year's Moto2 world champion, triumphed over his Repsol Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa, with Yamaha factory rider Jorge Lorenzo in third.
Marquez started from pole position in just his second MotoGP race, and with a time of 43min 42.123sec finished 1.534sec ahead of Pedrosa and 3.381sec in front of Lorenzo, the reigning world champion and winner of the season-opening race in Qatar earlier this month. Marquez had finished third in Qatar in his first MotoGP start and his qualifying performance on the new Circuit of the Americas made him the series' youngest ever pole winner.
"To be third in my first race in Qatar was a dream and now, to take the victory in the second race - that's even better!" Marquez added.
"The race was quite hard, especially in terms of physical condition towards the end, with corners like turn one. I had some problems with the front that I hadn't had in practice, but even with that, I was able to push and keep up a constant rhythm - not so fast, but enough."
Lorenzo notched the 100th podium finish of his career.
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