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Jerez MotoGP blow by blow with Boris

Boris Mihailovic by Boris Mihailovic
May 7, 2018
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Boris on 2018 MotoGP Round Four at Jerez

Jerez only went to plan for one bloke. The current and quite probably 2018 World Champion, Marc Marquez, was once again waving at his home crowd on his last lap.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez - Marc Marquez
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Marc Marquez

When you’re like an hour ahead of the bloke in second place you can do that. And you can also dance a bit on your bike as you cross the finish line, and your teeth can sparkle in the Andalusian sun, and it’s all back-slapping and champagne-hosing – even if one of the podium girls is a bloke dressed in Spanish national costume.

MotoGP Race Results Marc MARQUEZ SPA Honda 159.2 Johann ZARCO FRA Yamaha 158.9 +5.241 Andrea IANNONE ITA Suzuki 158.7 +8.214
MotoGP Race Results
Marc MARQUEZ SPA Honda 159.2
Johann ZARCO FRA Yamaha 158.9 +5.241
Andrea IANNONE ITA Suzuki 158.7 +8.214

Behind Marquez it was both spectacular and mundane.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez

It all began like a gunshot in a church, ie. Completely unexpected, very exciting and a bit of an affront to God.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez

Jorge Lorenzo, the only rider on the grid to have shod his bike with a soft front tyre in the hope he could make enough distance on the others before it went off, speared into the lead from fourth on the grid.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez

Crutchlow, who is already world champion as far as he is concerned, went backwards from his hard-fought and spectacular pole position.

Cal Cruthclow on the ground at Jerez
Cal Cruthclow on the ground at Jerez

He then further demonstrated how he is “no longer a sixth-place rider” by crashing out three laps into the race, then re-mounting and riding a broken bike for a few corners before returning to the pits and glaring at two different doubting people at once.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez - Maverick Vinales
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Maverick Vinales

The factory Yamaha blokes, Vinales and Rossi, were pretty shit once again, flubbing around in midfield as their bikes hated on the hot weather at Jerez.

But all eyes were on the front, and so all eyes were on Jorge Lorenzo, who was being chased in the opening laps by a conga line of Marquez, Pedrosa, Zarco, Dovi, Crutchlow and Rins.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez - Jorge Lorenzo
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Jorge Lorenzo

The Hondas had been dominant in practice and qualifying, but the Ducatis had found something somewhere, and Zarco, as usual, was making a mockery of the factory Yamahas.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez - Johann Zarco
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Johann Zarco

Iannone and Rins were also looking somewhat shiny on their Suzukis, but the race developed in a way no-one could have predicted.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez - Jorge Lorenzo
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Jorge Lorenzo

Marquez waited a respectful five laps before passing Lorenzo on the corner named after Lorenzo, and in sight of the lake where Lorenzo went swimming all those years ago when the world was Lorenzo Land.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez - Marc Marquez
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Marc Marquez

And then Marquez rode off. So that was that as far as he was concerned.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez - Marc Marquez
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Marc Marquez

Behind him Rins crashed, which made it three crashes in four races. Then Cal crashed. Then a few laps later Karel crashed. Then Luthi crashed.

All of which is pretty normal.

And then Marquez blew everyone’s mind by somehow not crashing on the gravel thrown onto the track by Luthi’s cartwheeling bike. Instead of also crashing, Marquez hit the gravel keeled over at Warp 7, skidded sideways for a few metres and looked for all the world like he was about to highside himself all the way to Mars, then righted it all and carried on as if nothing had happened. Because in his world nothing out of the ordinary did happen. It was an astonishing display of skill in what has become an endless and ongoing list of “How the hell does he do that?”

Marc Marquez
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Marc Marquez

So by Lap 17, Marc was more than two seconds ahead of the hard-charging group of Lorenzo, Dovizioso and Pedrosa, with Zarco flubbing around three seconds further back. Five seconds further behind Zarco, Iannone was keeping Petrucci, Rossi and Miller at bay.

Andrea Iannone
Andrea Iannone

But it was clear Lorenzo was charging a bit less hard than his pursuers. He was manifestly holding up Dovizioso. And it was clear Dovizioso needed to get past his team-mate if he was to prevent Marquez from getting even further away.

Last year, it had been established that showing Lorenzo “Suggest Mapping 8” on his dash did nothing in terms of getting him to move out of his faster team-mate’s way.

So no-one bothered this time.

Which is when it all went to shit.

Dovizioso, clearly completely out of patience, came past Jorge on the inside coming into Dry Sack corner. But he was too hot and ran it wide. This allowed Lorenzo to come back up the inside of Dovi mid corner, and as Lorenzo hit the apex, he didn’t see a hurtling Dani Pedrosa coming up on the inside of him. Except he did, right at the last second. It was too late. Lorenzo tried to stand his Ducati up, but hit Pedrosa and launched him into space, then took out Dovizioso as well.

Dovizioso waved his Italian arms at Lorenzo in the gravel, Lorenzo shrugged his Spanish shoulders back at Dovizioso, and Dani wondered how many mirrors he’d broken in his life to explain his run of bad luck.

And that was pretty much that.

Marc sailed off to an unassailable lead. Zarco got to ride around by himself in second, and there was a bit of action for the last step of the podium between Petrucci, Iannone, Miller and Rossi.

MotoGP 2018 - Round Four - Jerez - Valentino Rossi
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Valentino Rossi

Iannone proved to be the more committed, while Petrucci managed to fend Rossi off, who showed Miller that even fifth place does not come easily in MotoGP.

Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossi

Vinales’s strange season continues and he arrived home in seventh, just ahead of Bautista and Morbidelli, who benefited greatly, as they all did, from the big crash.

All except Marquez. He didn’t benefit from the big crash.

His benefits come entirely from another place. A place no other racer can currently approach.

MotoGP Race Results Marc MARQUEZ SPA Honda 159.2 Johann ZARCO FRA Yamaha 158.9 +5.241 Andrea IANNONE ITA Suzuki 158.7 +8.214
MotoGP Race Results
Marc MARQUEZ SPA Honda 159.2
Johann ZARCO FRA Yamaha 158.9 +5.241
Andrea IANNONE ITA Suzuki 158.7 +8.214

This year he is happier on the Honda, the Honda is happier with him, and it’s starting to look like another Marquez whitewash after only four races.

We are two weeks away from Le Mans.

You’ll struggle to find a bookie that will offer you any decent odds on Marquez crushing all before him in France.

Marc Marquez
MotoGP 2018 – Round Four – Jerez – Marc Marquez

MotoGP Race Results

  1. Marc MARQUEZ SPA Honda 159.2
  2. Johann ZARCO FRA Yamaha 158.9 +5.241
  3. Andrea IANNONE ITA Suzuki 158.7 +8.214
  4. Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Ducati 158.7 +8.617
  5. Valentino ROSSI ITA Yamaha 158.6 +8.743
  6. Jack MILLER AUS Ducati 158.6 +9.768
  7. Maverick VIÑALES SPA Yamaha 158.3 +13.543
  8. Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Ducati 158.3 +14.076
  9. Franco MORBIDELLI ITA Honda 158.1 +16.822
  10. Mika KALLIO FIN KTM 158.0 +19.405
  11. Pol ESPARGARO SPA KTM 157.9 +21.149
  12. Takaaki NAKAGAMI JPN Honda 157.9 +21.174
  13. Bradley SMITH GBR KTM 157.8 +21.765
  14. Tito RABAT SPA Ducati 157.8 +22.103
  15. Scott REDDING GBR Aprilia 156.9 +36.755
  16. Hafizh SYAHRIN MAL Yamaha 156.6 +41.861
  17. Xavier SIMEON BEL Ducati 156.1 +49.241
  18. Karel ABRAHAM CZE Ducati 150.3 1 Lap
    Not Classified
    Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati 159.3 8 Laps
    Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati 159.3 8 Laps
    Dani PEDROSA SPA Honda 159.3 8 Laps
    Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Honda 155.4 9 Laps
    Thomas LUTHI SWI Honda 157.0 14 Laps
    Alex RINS SPA Team Suzuki 157.9 20 Laps
    Not Finished 1st Lap
    Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Aprilia 0 Lap
MotoGP Race Results

MotoGP Championship Points

  1. Marc MARQUEZ Honda SPA 70
  2. Johann ZARCO Yamaha FRA 58
  3. Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha SPA 50
  4. Andrea IANNONE Suzuki ITA 47
  5. Andrea DOVIZIOSO Ducati ITA 46
  6. Valentino ROSSI Yamaha ITA 40
  7. Cal CRUTCHLOW Honda GBR 38
  8. Jack MILLER Ducati AUS 36
  9. Danilo PETRUCCI Ducati ITA 34
  10. Tito RABAT Ducati SPA 24
  11. Dani PEDROSA Honda SPA 18
  12. Alex RINS Suzuki SPA 16
  13. Franco MORBIDELLI Honda ITA 13
  14. Pol ESPARGARO KTM SPA 13
  15. Alvaro BAUTISTA Ducati SPA 12
  16. Hafizh SYAHRIN Yamaha MAL 9
  17. Takaaki NAKAGAMI Honda JPN 9
  18. Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia SPA 6
  19. Mika KALLIO KTM FIN 6
  20. Jorge LORENZO Ducati SPA 6
  21. Scott REDDING Aprilia GBR 5
  22. Bradley SMITH KTM GBR 3
  23. Karel ABRAHAM Ducati CZE 1

Images by AJRN

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Boris is a writer who has contributed to many magazines and websites over the years, edited a couple of those things as well, and written a few books. But his most important contribution is pissing people off. He feels this is his calling in life and something he takes seriously. He also enjoys whiskey, whisky and the way girls dance on tables. And riding motorcycles. He's pretty keen on that, too.

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