Moto GP - Marc Marquez extends his lead over Jorge Lorenzo in Aragon

With just four races left in the 2013 Moto GP season, it is pretty much confirmed that Marc Marquez will be crowned champion in the end. He is currently leading the Riders’ Championship by 39 points and there seems no stopping him at the moment.

Even if the young rider has to retire in any of the upcoming events, he will still have a good chance of securing the title. He will really have to do something silly to spoil the party for his team, Honda, and himself.
However, the Spaniard needs to realize that he should not take any risks in order to go for the victories.

Podium finishes will be enough for him to secure the championship, so he needs to act cleverly. He has taken some silly steps during this season and repeated one of them in the recently concluded race in Aragon when he was fighting for position against his Honda team-mate, Daniel Pedrosa.

The latter of the two riders was ahead and looked to have a very good race pace. However, he got hit from behind by Marquez, resulting in retirement. Luckily for the younger of the two riders, he managed to continue racing, but he had to make some ground to catch up with his title contender Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha.

That did not seem to be a problem for the 20-year-old, as he easily managed to catch the Yamaha rider and overtook him in his aggressive style, for which he has drawn a lot of criticism. From then onwards, it seemed that no one would be able to come in his way, but Lorenzo gave him a tough time towards the ending moments.

However, Marquez had enough life in his tires, so he stretched the gap to more than one second in order to cement his place at the top. Due to this, Lorenzo had to settle for second place on the grid and his title chances seem to be over now.



The top-two finishers in Aragon did not have any pressure on them from the rest of the riders, as Pedrosa had retired on lap six. This allowed the second Yamaha rider, Valentino Rossi, to finish on the podium once again this season. He seems off-color this year, but has still managed to score some decent points with consistency.

The Italian rider did not find the podium finish in Aragon to be easy, as there was immense pressure on him from some of the other riders like Alvaro Bautista, Stefan Bradl and Cal Crutchlow. All of them were pushing extremely hard to claim the podium, but the experience of Rossi proved to be too much for them in the end.

There was not much action other than that, as things went normally for the rest of the riders. Bradley Smith came home in seventh place ahead of the two Ducati riders, Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden whereas Andrea Iannone completed the Top-10.

With the end of this race, Marquez is firmly positioned at the top of the points table, but the manufacturer’s battle is still on. There is a very little difference between Honda and Yamaha, so things can be interesting towards the final few events. The former of the two teams is currently in lead with 316 points whereas the latter outfit has got 290 points.

Although Honda seems to have the upper hand at the moment, but a couple of more retirements for any of their riders will allow Yamaha to strike back and take the championship in the end. However, only time will tell what happens in the coming events. If you are also a racing fan; make sure you hit the track with all of your protective gear from http:/riderwear.net/.

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