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Quartararo strikes back in Spain

MOTOGP

BARCELONA (ESP)

27 SEPTEMBER

ROUND 8/14

The first two parts of the latest MotoGP triple-header couldn’t have gone much better for Yamaha, with Franco Morbidelli winning the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano for Petronas SRT, and Maverick Vinales returning to the top step a week later at the same track on his works M1.

For Fabio Quartararo, they couldn’t have gone much worse. A crash in the San Marino race lost him the championship lead for the first time in 2020, and a post-race penalty for a track-limits violation dropped him off the podium

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