MOTOR SPORT
Marc Marquez can smell fourth MotoGP world title
Melbourne — Marc Marquez moved to within touching distance of a fourth MotoGP world title with victory at the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. His sixth win of the season gave him a 33-point lead over his nearest rival, Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso, with two races remaining. The 24-year-old Honda rider prevailed after another Phillip Island thriller, with the top eight riders duking it out over 27 laps and the lead changing hands on almost every corner at some stages. Marquez, clipped by French rookie Johann Zarco early in the race, bided his time and hit the front six laps from the end before racing away to take the chequered flag and moving to 269 points in the MotoGP championship. Dovizioso, meanwhile, had started from 11th on the grid after a disappointing qualifying and his misery was complete when he was passed by Marquez’s teammate Dani Pedrosa and Scott Redding on the final lap to finish 13th. That left the Italian on 236 points with only 50 up for grabs in the final two rounds...
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