Repsol Honda Team are 2019 triple crown Champions after Marc Marquez claimed victory number 12 of the season at the Gran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana, with Jorge Lorenzo scoring points in his final MotoG ride to help Honda win the Teams Championship. pole sitter Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) and Jack Miller (Pramac Racing) completed the final podium of the 2019 season.
Starting from second on the front row, Marquez didn’t enjoy the best of starts and found himself down in fifth place through the first checkpoint. However, it wasn’t long before Marquez did what he seems to do better than anybody else.
Fabio Quartararo led the race in beginning, but finished 2nd place. He has secured the MotoGP Independent riders’ title along with his top rookie honour in 2019. 3rd place was Jack Miller (Pramac Ducati), who took his 5th podium of 2019.
Jorge Lorenzo (Repsol Honda) ended his career in MotoGP with his best result since June's Italian GP in 13th.
Marc Marquez said, “It was my best season of my career and I don’t know if it will be my best season in all of my career but obviously the numbers, the statistics speak. We showed our potential this year and it was a perfect season as it was so difficult to improve on.
We finished in the best way by winning the race in Valencia but especially taking the teams’ championship because all the Repsol Honda team deserves it.
It is a way to say goodbye to Jorge because in the end the Jorge I have in mind and for everybody is the Jorge that is a five-time world champion and in the end we will celebrate something together tonight and this will make me happy.”
On his final-ever MotoGP ride, five-time World Champion and future MotoGP™ Legend Jorge Lorenzo finished P13. It was an emotional day for the Spaniard who arrived back into pitlane to rapturous applause, with the Valencia fans paying their full respects to one of the sport’s greatest ever riders on his cool-down lap. #ThankYouJorge!
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