Marc Marquez produces dominant Texas victory

Marc Marquez has returned to his brilliant best by marching to a dominant victory in round 2 of the MotoGP Championship at Austin, Texas.

Marquez had a fight early in the race before sweeping into the lead with 17 laps remaining and breaking clear of the field at the Circuit of the Americas.

The victory sees Marquez move to within five points of the championship lead.

Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso had led early then battled with Marquez before surrendering the lead to the factory Honda champion.

Valentino Rossi, the opening round winner in Qatar, was third in the Yamaha after dicing with Dovizioso.

With six laps remaining Rossi lost second placed when Dovizioso charged past at Turn 3.

Jorge Lorenzo took fourth ahead of Andrea Iannone who had a splendid ride for Ducati for fifth.

Bradley Smith, who had started from 10th, had a great run moving up to fourth before finishing sixth.

Jack Miller had a solid run on his open class LCR Honda to claim 14th.

With 14 laps remaining Rossi then claimed Dovizioso for second as Marquez slipped to a 1.9s lead.

Rossi still clutches the lead in the championship by one point over Dovizioso as the MotoGP heads to Argentina for the next round from April 17-19.

Result: US MotoGP, Austin, Texas

1	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	43:47.150s
2	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	2.354
3	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	3.120
4	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	Yamaha	6.682
5	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	Ducati	7.584
6	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	Yamaha	10.557
7	Cal Crutchlow	LCR	Honda	16.967
8	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	Suzuki	19.025
9	Maverick Vinales	Suzuki	Suzuki	38.570
10	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Racing	Ducati	41.796
11	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	Honda	47.199
12	Hector Barbera	Avintia Racing	Ducati	47.339
13	Nicky Hayden	Aspar	Honda	56.484
14	Jack Miller	LCR	Honda	56.731
15	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	57.372
16	Eugene Laverty	Aspar	Honda	58.898
17	Loris Baz	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward/Yamaha	1:08.787
18	Alex de Angelis	IodaRacing Project	ART/Aprilia	1:22.236
19	Karel Abraham	AB Motoracing	Honda	DNF
20	Marco Melandri	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	DNF
21	Yonny Hernandez	Pramac Racing	Ducati	DNF
22	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Ducati	DNF
23	Scott Redding	Marc VDS	Honda	DNF
24	Stefan Bradl	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward/Yamaha	DNF
25	Pol Espargaro	Tech 3	Yamaha	DNF

Points standings

1	Valentino Rossi	41
2	Andrea Dovizioso	40
3	Marc Marquez	36
4	Andrea Iannone	27
5	Jorge Lorenzo	26
6	Bradley Smith	18
7	Cal Crutchlow	18
8	Aleix Espargaro	13
9	Dani Pedrosa	10
10	Danilo Petrucci	10
11	Maverick Vinale	9
12	Pol Espargaro	7
13	Yonny Hernande	6
14	Hiroshi Aoyama	5
15	Hector Barbera	5
16	Nicky Hayden	3
17	Scott Redding	3
18	Jack Miller	2
19	Alvaro Bautista	1