The 2015 season doesn’t cease to entertain and Valentino Rossi certainly doesn’t cease to amaze. Even if you haven’t watched the race you by now surely you have read of the outcome. Marc Marquez was all but sure of clinching his second victory of the season but things didn’t go quite according to plan. Going by the start of the race, you’d have hardly guessed the outcome. Marquez on his Honda swiftly dealt with an initial challenge from Aleix Espargaro (yes, a Suzuki lead a MotoGP race!) and began to build a strong lead while the Andreas, Cal Crutchlow, Espargaro and Lorenzo diced for the top six spots. Rossi was behind all this.
Forward 12 laps and Rossi was up in second, just four seconds behind Marquez and he had a hopeful Andrea Dovizioso in tow. And then Rossi really turned up the pace. Lap after lap, he reeled in Marquez by …
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