This is the Spaniard’s eleventh win in a row in Germany and the eleventh victory in a row for a Repsol Honda team rider on the circuit who ended a run of 21 races without a win. With his 96th premier class podium, his 57th win in class, Marquez has the most premier class podiums ahead of Doohan – fourth overall.
Teammate Pol Espargaro finished his run with another top ten finish, his fourth of the season, Espargaro is on 35 World Championship points and 12th overall.
The MotoGP paddock is now heading north to Assen, The Cathedral, for the ninth round of the World Championship.
Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) – How it happened
“This is one of the most important and difficult moments of my career. Today I knew there was a great opportunity to do something. When I crossed the finish line, I just enjoyed it and then to get there with my whole team, emotionally, that helps a lot after such a difficult situation. It’s impossible to come back alone, you need people, you need a good team, a good medical team, a physiotherapist, Honda, Honda respect me a lot. Alberto Puig, Emilio Alzamora, my family, they helped me a lot.
Now it’s time to enjoy this weekend, we’ve looked for a gas station, but now we’ve found one and the tank is full again. It’s an additional motivation for me, for Honda, for the engineers, for the team and let’s see what the future brings. When I saw a few raindrops on lap four of five, I said; It is my breed. At that point I started pushing and then when it started to rain harder I pushed even more and then the second race with Oliveira started. He pushed so hard and was very fast, it was hard to stay focused because all the memories, everything that I went through over the last year came into my mind. But we did it. We’ll do it again. “
Pol Espargaro (Repsol Honda Team) – How it happened
“To be honest, it wasn’t good today. I didn’t have a good start and we struggled a lot, I was overtaken a lot and this is not the easiest place to overtake. Then when the rain came, I was stuck behind too many people and couldn’t get past them fast enough. If you can’t overtake quickly at the Sachsenring, that happens. My race isn’t what I wanted, it’s not what I expected. But we saw what Marc did, I’m really happy for him and the entire Repsol Honda team. It shows that the bike is working well here, but it also shows that we could have done more since I was around Marc all weekend. It is an incentive to improve, to work harder and better. “