Up to date race outcomes after Augusto Fernandez (14th), Johann Zarco (seventeenth) and Stefan Bradl (18th) all obtain 16-second post-race time penalties for failing to satisfy the minimal tyre stress in Sunday’s German MotoGP.
The reshuffle means Luca Marini scores his first level as a Repsol Honda rider…
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2024 German MotoGP, Sachsenring – Race Outcomes |
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| Pos | Rider | Nat | Workforce | Time/Diff |
| 1 | Francesco Bagnaia | ITA | Ducati Lenovo (GP24) | 40m 40.063s |
| 2 | Marc Marquez | SPA | Gresini Ducati (GP23) | +3.804s |
| 3 | Alex Marquez | SPA | Gresini Ducati (GP23) | +4.334s |
| 4 | Enea Bastianini | ITA | Ducati Lenovo (GP24) | +5.317s |
| 5 | Franco Morbidelli | ITA | Pramac Ducati (GP24) | +5.557s |
| 6 | Miguel Oliveira | POR | Trackhouse Aprilia (RS-GP24) | +10.481s |
| 7 | Pedro Acosta | SPA | Purple Bull GASGAS Tech3 (RC16)* | +14.746s |
| 8 | Marco Bezzecchi | ITA | VR46 Ducati (GP23) | +14.930s |
| 9 | Brad Binder | RSA | Purple Bull KTM (RC16) | +15.084s |
| 10 | Raul Fernandez | SPA | Trackhouse Aprilia (RS-GP23) | +16.384s |
| 11 | Fabio Quartararo | FRA | Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) | +17.235s |
| 12 | Maverick Viñales | SPA | Aprilia Racing (RS-GP24) | +18.865s |
| 13 | Jack Miller | AUS | Purple Bull KTM (RC16) | +25.425s |
| 14 | Takaaki Nakagami | JPN | LCR Honda (RC213V) | +25.817s |
| 15 | Luca Marini | ITA | Repsol Honda (RC213V) | +25.854s |
| 16 | Augusto Fernandez | SPA | Purple Bull GASGAS Tech3 (RC16) | +41.495s |
| 17 | Johann Zarco | FRA | LCR Honda (RC213V) | +41.952s |
| 18 | Joan Mir | SPA | Repsol Honda (RC213V) | +43.145s |
| 19 | Remy Gardner | AUS | Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) | +50.115s |
| 20 | Stefan Bradl | GER | HRC Take a look at Workforce (RC213V) | +59.047s |
| Jorge Martin | SPA | Pramac Ducati (GP24) | DNF | |
| Fabio Di Giannantonio | ITA | VR46 Ducati (GP23) | DNF | |
* Rookie
Jorge Martin has misplaced the MotoGP title benefit after crashing out of the lead of the German Grand Prix on the penultimate lap.
Martin’s shock error not solely handed victory and the world championship result in Francesco Bagnaia however meant each Marquez brothers completed on the rostrum.
Though Marc’s unbeaten Sunday Sachsenring run ended, he bravely fought from thirteenth to 2nd with Gresini team-mate Alex ending in his wheeltracks.
In contrast to on Saturday, Martin held onto pole at Flip 1, regardless of some resistance from Miguel Oliveira, who had celebrated the Trackhouse staff’s first Dash podium with second on Saturday.
However reigning champion Bagnaia, who rued a tyre-saving strategy after taking the early lead within the Dash, got here out swinging on Sunday. The manufacturing facility Ducati star attacked Oliveira and Martin on the last nook on successive laps to place the #1 into P1 by lap 3 of 30.
Martin, who beat Bagnaia by simply 0.064s a yr in the past, clung to second – regardless of some probing strikes by flying team-mate Franco Morbidelli – till launching again below Bagnaia at Flip 1 on lap 7.
The Spaniard promptly put the hammer down, whereas worse was to observe for Bagnaia when Morbidelli replicated Martin’s transfer to demote the reigning champion to 3rd.
However Bagnaia wasn’t completed, breaking again into the 1m 20s because the second half of the race started and sweeping previous Morbidelli.
With Martin 1.2s clear, the explanation for Bagnaia’s urgency was clear. Bagnaia chipped that right down to half-a-second with 10 laps to go however couldn’t fairly get inside placing distance…
Nonetheless, the fixed stress appeared to repay when Martin sensationally misplaced the entrance on the sluggish Flip 1 on the penultimate lap and slid into the gravel.
The battle for the ultimate podium place was a Morbidelli vs Alex Marquez vs Marc Marquez vs Enea Bastianini affair. The #21 stored the Gresinis at bay till 13 laps to go when Alex eased alongside on the backside of the Waterfall plunge.
Nursing accidents to his left hand and ribs, 11-time Sachsenring winner Marc Marquez – who hadn’t been crushed in a German Grand Prix for the reason that 125cc class in 2009 – had transformed his lowly thirteenth on the grid into sixth by the center phases.
The #93 then survived a scare when Morbidelli ran huge at Flip 1 then in the reduction of throughout the nostril of the blue bike as he recovered, the contact sending Marquez out of the seat, breaking his display screen and deploying his airbag.
Marquez took fourth from Morbidelli on the last flip with 5 laps to go, by which era youthful brother Alex was 1.8s clear in third.
Quickly consuming into that benefit, Marc seemed set to awkwardly knock Alex from the podium till Martin’s error instantly meant they turned the primary brothers to face on the premier-class podium for the reason that Aokis in 1997.
Bastianini produced his regular late cost for fourth, forward of Morbidelli, with Oliveira better of the remaining behind the all-Ducati prime 5 (prime six if Martin has stayed on).
Rookie Acosta’s last likelihood to beat Marquez’s youngest MotoGP race winner file formally ended with seventh place for GASGAS Tech3, having spent the closing laps locked in battle with fellow RC16 rider Brad Binder.
Fabio Quartararo took prime Yamaha honours in his a centesimal MotoGP race with a lonely eleventh.
After dropping out on sixth to Marc Marquez in a Dash picture end, Maverick Vinales – additionally carrying aches and pains from an enormous highside – ran via the gravel whereas holding sixth place right this moment and finally completed twelfth.
Takaaki Nakagami was the main Honda in fifteenth, denying Repsol Honda’s Luca Marini of his first level of the yr by 0.037s.
Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro missed the race as a consequence of his Assen hand harm.
Sunday’s situations weren’t solely cooler than the Dash however all riders picked the medium quite than tender rear tyre for the 30-lap distance (whereas preserving the laborious entrance).
Revised tyre stress guidelines for 2024 imply riders should now keep above a decrease entrance minimal of 1.8 bar (as an alternative of 1.88) for 60% (as an alternative of fifty%) of a Grand Prix distance, or 30% of a Dash.
The penalty for failing to satisfy this minimal in a Grand Prix shall be a 16-second post-race time penalty, or an 8-second penalty for a Dash/quick race.
The MotoGP summer time break now begins, working till the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on August 2-4.
