The winner Marc Marquez was expecting a stronger Ducati threat in GP of Germany – MotoGP

Marc Marquez, the leader of the MotoGP Championship, expects a new challenge from Ducatis at the German Grand Prix at Sachsenring

Márquez took the start of the German Grand Prix but gave up the race to Jorge Lorenzo. Lorenzo was finally overtaken by Marquez and began to fade, while his teammate Andrea Dovizioso never materialized, Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales completing the podium behind them. He was asked if the fight for victory was unfolding as he expected, Marquez said: "Maybe the two guys who missed me after the training, [which] for I was good news, were the two Ducatis

. "I saw that Lorenzo was pushing a lot at first, then I immediately see that he started to drop a lot." I say "OK, he is time to overtake "It's so hard to overtake the Ducati riders but was able to and en And I just tried to keep pushing.

" And the other guy, Dovizioso – in race speed, in warm-up, in FP4 – was very fast, but it seems that he lost much of his pace. "

Lorenzo, who had to settle for sixth place, said that his loss of speed in the race was not due to stamina problems, but rather to the need to use the tire back re using

. "The problem was the pressure medium [rear tyre] was the only choice we had," he said.

"I tried to be so fluid on the throttle of the first lap, but even so, from the middle of the race to the end, it was impossible to have a normal acceleration, even though I was gently on the pickup area.

"The back of the bike was shaking without traction.It was the main problem, not my physical condition. "

Dovizioso Seventh admitted that he was expecting a better result, but the stressed tire uplift had made it difficult to make accurate predictions.

"I was expecting more" But [at the] Sachsenring [it] is impossible to know before the race what you can do.

Dovizioso was supported by the improvement that Ducati made on a difficult track, but he was disappointed to finish as his fourth best representative, behind Lorenzo, Danilo Petrucci and Alvaro Bautista, fifth in fifth position.

"The reality is that we are much faster than last year, it's the positive, during practice and at the end of the race." I'm very happy with that, but our motorcycle is a bit better, but with the same DNA, in fast turns, we can not accelerate and we can not do the same speed as Honda and Yamaha, as always.

"It's the why we struggle "

" Where I'm not happy is [that] I was the fourth Ducati. This means that there was a chance to do something better, that is the negative point. "