- Marc Marquez wins Spanish MotoGP at Jerez
- Fourth straight win for reigning world champion
- Valentino Rossi finishes in a fine second
- Marquez leads world title race by 28 points
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Seven-time world MotoGP champion Rossi was picking up his second runners-up spot of the season and held off Marquez’s teammate Dani Pedrosa on the final corner.
Rossi’s teammate and two-time champion Jorge Lorenzo finished fourth.
Defending champion Marquez has a 28-point lead over Pedrosa in the title race after his 36th Grand Prix victory from just 100 starts.
“I’m really happy, it’s a different kind of victory, ” Marquez told the official MotoGP website.
“In the beginning I was able to open a gap and push. I know that Dani and Valentino are so strong at the end of the race so I pushed very hard at the start,” the 21-year-old revealed.
Rossi, who was winning his 149th podium finish in MotoGP, was delighted to be a factor again at Jerez, which is one of his favorite circuits.
“Since 2010 I have not been on the podium here, so it’s great to be back,” said the Italian.
Earlier, Finland’s Mika Kallio took the Moto2 race ahead of Switzerland’s Dominique Aegerter and Jonas Folger of Germany.
Italian Romano Fenati won the Moto3 race ahead of Spanish pair Efren Vazquez and Alex Rins.
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