Marc Marquez turned his first Motegi pole into his tenth win of 2019, heading Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo at the end of the 25 lap encounter. Marquez got a perfect launch to maintain his pole advantage into Turn 1 ahead of Quartararo and a similarly fast starting Jack Miller. Quartararo-keen to finally take his first premier class victory-dived past Marquez into Turn 7, but not to be denied the Honda was back through with a late move into the Turn 9 hairpin. Marquez then was able to build an advantage of around 1.2 seconds over the next lap, before the chasing Frenchman began to slowly reel him back in. The gap between the leading pair yo-yoed by a just a few tenths over the...
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