Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo are not letting Honda’s Marc Marquez have it all his way.
While it’s true that Marc Marquez is comfortably leading the 2018 championship, his reign at the top has come under serious threat from Ducati in the last two races. First, it was at Brno where he was pipped by the Ducati duo – Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo – and then in the last round in Austria he was convincingly beaten by a Ducati yet again.
At the Czech GP in Brno, Dovizioso clinched his second victory of the season. It was an intense and edge-of-seat battle between him, Lorenzo and Marquez, which went right down to the wire. All three traded places repeatedly, but Dovizioso seemed to have something extra. The fact that Lorenzo and Marquez tangled furiously with each other in the last few laps also gave him some advantage. Lorenzo, meanwhile, finished the race second, while Marquez had to settle for third position, and it was quite apparent that both of them didn’t like where they’d finished. Being multiple championship winners, it’s understandable that they’re always desperate to win.
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