MARC MARQUEZ CLAIMS THIRD VICTORY OF THE SEASON AT LE MANS

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Marc Marquez won a third race on the trot for Honda as he claimed victory in the French MotoGP at Le Mans. It was a 38th win for the Spaniard in the series and extended his lead to 36 points at the top of the championship.

Marquez romped to his third win on the bounce in the Grand Prix de France at Le Mans ahead of Danilo Petrucci and Valentino Rossi, benefitting from both pole man Johann Zarco and title rival Andrea Dovizioso crashing out early in the race. The results means Marquez now holds a 36 point lead just five races into the season.

Jack Miller posted one of his best results in MotoGP with a fourth placing, hounding Rossi all the way home and only just failing to snag a spot on the podium. Zarco had the 105,000 home fans at Le Mans' Bugatti circuit dreaming of a rare French win after his record-setting pole 24 hours earlier, but the Yamaha Tech star slid out of contention on Lap 7. Zarco's premature exit left Marquez in control of a race that, after the early drama, turned into something of a procession.

At the start, Zarco was quickly displaced at the front by a fast starting Jorge Lorenzo, the Frenchman snatching back second place by lunging past Marquez at the Dunlop Curve. Marquez was forced to sit up, allowing Andrea Iannone into third - briefly. The Suzuki rider's race ended in a crash at Turn 6.

Andrea Dovizioso's Ducati then swept past Lorenzo but no sooner had the Italian made his move than he too crashed. It was then hapless Zarco's turn to exit, stage left, as the French MotoGP idol parted company with his bike with 20 laps remaining.

With the great gallic home hope out of the picture it didn't take long for Marquez to make his decisive move as Lorenzo faded after his early charge, eventually finishing sixth, over 13 seconds ahead of Yamaha's Maverick Vinales, who'd won the corresponding race 12 months ago.

A late charge netted Cal Crutchlow eighth, an impressive result given he'd checked himself out of hospital that morning to take part in the race, the Englishman still tender after his massive qualifying crash. Aleix Espargaro and Alex Rins rounded out the top 10.

The result tightened Marquez's grip on the MotoGP standings with the defending four-time champion on 95 points. Dovizioso's disaster drops him to a tie for eighth in the standings, almost two full race wins behind the man he fought for last year's world title. Vinales is Marquez's closest pursuer on 59, one point ahead of Zarco, and seven-time world champion Rossi two points further adrift.

FRENCH MOTOGP RESULTS
1. Marc Marquez (Spa/Honda) 41mins 49.773secs,
2. Danilo Petrucci (Ita/Ducati) +2.310secs
3. Valentino Rossi (Ita/Yamaha) +5.350secs
4. Jack Miller (Aus/Ducati) + 6.314secs
5. Dani Pedrosa (Spa/Honda) 7.419secs
6. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa/Ducati) 10.355secs
7. Maverick Vinales (Spa/Yamaha) 13.543secs
8. Cal Crutchlow (GB/Honda) +23.758secs
9. Aleix Espargaro (Spa/Aprilia) +26.206secs
10. Alex Rins (Spa/Suzuki) +27.937secs

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