In the end, for Lorenzo it boiled down to a poor choice of soft tyres, that just could not match the hard tyres on the Honda in terms of endurance. Swinging the momentum in favour of Marc Marquez. Meanwhile, Dani Pedrosa had an exceptional race as well on the other Repsol Honda, progressing from sixth place to pass Lorenzo with just three laps to go. However, for Jorge Lorenzo, it still was his best outing on the Ducati yet.
Team-mate Dovi too didn’t have much of an outing at all, after losing pace to the first four, thanks to another soft rear bungle up, he came under attack from the aspiration bunch. First losing his place, to Dani Pedrosa’s Honda and then finding himself in the rear-views of Maverick Vinales, and even Aprilia Aleix Espargaro to finish in seventh place overall. However, hearts at Aragon were with the GOAT, Valentino Rossi, back in the front row just 23 days after breaking his right tibia and fibula. He even defended his podium spot for more than half of the race. Finishing half a second behind Maverick Vinales, his team-mate.The net result of this means that Marquez who started the race tied with Dovi is now 16 points clear of the man on the Ducati. Ahead of next month’s race in Japan. Vinales has dropped 28 points back, while Rossi has lost fourth to Pedrosa.
