The Repsol Honda Team rider started 13th on the grid and was making a good comeback when he crashed on the eighth lap. Marc Márquez was fighting with Aleix Espargaró for sixth place when he lost his front gear at the entrance of turn 10 and went down.
The eight-time world champion tried to lift his bike, but finally saw the state it was in and decided to put an end to the Catalan Grand Prix.
For Marc Márquez it is his third consecutive retirement due to a crash in the five races he has contested since his return to competition in Portimao after nine months injured. The Catalan had never chained such a streak since he made his debut in the 125cc World Championship in 2008. His worst streak in MotoGP was the two retirements he chained in 2015 (Italy-Catalonia).
The #93 already retired at the last French Grand Prix after a double crash in the rain when he was leading the race and last week in Italy, on the second lap.
Black day for Repsol Honda . His teammate Pol Espargaró also crashed on the fifth lap at turn 5. In this way, HRC has now gone 21 consecutive grands prix without winning, the worst sequence in its entire history.
The 24 laps at the Circuit de Catalunya turned into a survival race, with almost a third of the grid on the ground. To the two Honda riders we must also add the falls of Valentino Rossi, Aleix Espargaró, Danilo Petrucci or Iker Lecuona , finishing only 15 riders.
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