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2021 MotoGP World Championship Season
Dutch MotoGP
Round 9
TT Circuit Assen
Assen, Netherlands
Sunday, 27 June 2021
Ducati rider Johann Zarco will be looking to clinch his maiden victory of the season by winning the
Dutch MotoGP title on June 27.
The French star, who won the 2015 and 2016 Moto2 World Championships, was forced to retire at the last Dutch MotoGP which was staged in 2019.
Zarco finished eighth in the most recent race which was the 2021 German MotoGP on June 20 after he battled a drop-in rear grip in the second half of the 30-lap race.
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The German MotoGP was won by Honda rider Marc Marquez, who claimed the maiden win of the current campaign.
KTM rider Miguel Oliveira and Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo finished second and third respectively.
Quartararo is still sitting at the top of the Riders' standings, while Ducati duo of Zarco and Jack Miller are placed second and third respectively on the table.
Zarco is now 22 points behind Quartararo and he will be looking to move closer to the leader by winning the Dutch MotoGP title.
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The 30-year-old explained why Marquez winning the German MotoGP race was positive for his own MotoGP world title hopes.
“Marc has been incredible, but these incredible things I tried to learn from it because here in Sachsenring it is really something special and I hope it’s something that can help me make a step this season," Zarco said.
“I think a key point in the race was to overtake Aleix Espargaro. “When Marc began to go away, with a bit of rain he took this advantage and at this moment I really tried to overtake Aleix and I could not do it, so I lost a bit of time here.
“Then the second part of the race was pretty different and every lap the rear tyre on the left was dropping a lot and I could not really handle it very well.”
Yamaha are placed at the top of Constructors' Championship standings and they are followed by Ducati and KTM respectively.
2019 Dutch MotoGP results
Winner: Maverick Vinales - Yamaha
Runner-Up: Marc Marquez - Honda
Third-Place: Fabio Quartararo - Yamaha
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