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Confirmation from Manu Gonzalez that he didn’t stall the bike on the grid yesterday; he had a technical problem that meant it wouldn’t go into first 😫

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Gigi Dall’Igna’s 100th win as Ducati boss! Austria 2015 feels like a very long time ago 😅

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Short press conferences; what happens when barely any journalists can afford to attend, then you schedule rider debriefs at the same time

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General consensus so far: the hard rear tyre is amazing, everyone loved it, they should have used it all weekend 😂 Racers, eh?

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All of it, as fast as I’m concerned.

MotoGP fans yesterday: 'Michelin are awful!' MotoGP fans today: 'the new asphalt is amazing!' 😂😂😂😂😂

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Marc wins a rather boring Japanese Grand Prix, ahead of Martin. Bezzecchi just holds onto the final podium place, ahead of Bastianini. And Fernandez wins the duel for fifth

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Enea Bastianini breaking the absolute lap record on lap 23 of the race has an important message in it about maybe trying every tyre option during the weekend 😂

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Somehow, Enea Bastianini is now doing absolute lap record pace 😂 And only 0.8s behind Bezzecchi with three laps to go!

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Thankfully, something has now happened! Fernandez, Ogura, and Acosta going head to head for P5!

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Alex Marquez is down too! Rider OK. Miller rejoined the race too

Crash for Jack Miller. Was running P21 and last

Marc responds, Martin responds, leads stretch back out again. Tedious race.

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Nine laps to go, Marquez leads Martin by a second with Bezzecchi another second back - but Bez is now the fastest guy on track...

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It'll be an instruction to do something with the bike, most likely

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Marc Marquez leads, at half distance

Diogo Moreira has crashed out of P8. Rider OK

Luca Marini is in P11, not P2. Aprilia are sending coded messages #mapping8

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Marc now all over Martin, as they distance Bezzecchi a little. Catching and passing aren't always the same thing, mind you!

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Remember, the 'hard' tyre is actually the same compound as the soft, with a harder construction. The most amount of laps anyone has done on it is half race distance. Let's see what happens next!

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Alex Marquez P4 > P9 Johann Zarco P11 > P15

Reminder: both Alex Marquez (P4) and Johann Zarco (P11) have double long lap penalties. The loop is open for them this lap

Something we don't see very often: Acosta getting successfully attacked by another KTM. Enea Bastianini through into P5 (and the Trackhouse duo follow him to demote Acosta to P8 in one lap)

Martin leads at the end of lap one, ahead of Marquez and Bezzecchi.

Hmmm. After everything, every rider appears to be on medium front-hard rear combination! Wonder if some common sense prevailed after people looked at Miller's medium (and after warm up alleviated some concerns)

Tony Arbolino and Filip Salac both full of praise for Izan Guevara. Says they knew his championship situation, they pushed him hard, and he simply didn’t make a single mistake for them to use

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Kinda feels like rain wouldn’t a huge shock in the next few hours. Certainly a lot cooler than it has been the past few days.

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Guevara takes the win, and cuts Gonzalez's championship lead to only 10.5 points. Arbolino holds onto second ahead of Salac

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Arbolino desperate to win this, but Guevara looking absolutely in control with a lap and a half to go

Guevara trying to make hay while the sun shines in his championship fight - but Arbolino and Salac are hunting him down now. Gonzalez still 15 seconds away from the points

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Was that a stall? He's started from pit lane but he's 30s down!

DRAMA!! Championship leader Manu Gonzalez being pulled off the front row of the grid!!!

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The 'leave it to the end' strategy doesn't quuuuuuuite work for Max Quiles today, and David Almansa holds on for a win! Carpe a distant P3, Uriarte takes P4 despite the two long laps, and the title fight rolls on another week

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The long lap loop here is quite tricky. Tight, narrow, very easy to get it wrong (I always do one lap of it when I'm cycling 😂)

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Race leader Brian Uriarte under investigation for his Ajo team working on his bike on the grid after the three-minute board was shown...

Moto3 tyres and grid. Warm up lap start in one minute

Johann Zarco has been hit with a double long lap penalty for today's race, after attempting to restart his bike after he crashed in warm up this morning. Specifically prohibited these days, in the interests of marshal safety.

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Letting MotoGP racers race each others on go karts, on the actual circuit, on a Sunday morning, is either inspired or a recipe for total disaster. Maybe both.

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