Last weekend, MotoGP champion Marc Marquez earned his ninth triumph in a row at the Sachsenring - a winning streak which makes him the undoubted 'King of the 'Ring.' The Sachsenring is a narrow and short track (in fact, the shortest in the MotoGP calendar), so grid position is crucial and qualifying sessions therefore become more relevant. Marquez's answer to the pressure was in line with expectations: he locked up his ninth pole position in a row - beating Danilo Petrucci by just 25 milliseconds - with a unique fast-lap strategy developed between the Spaniard and his Honda team at Jerez back in 2014. Marquez took a gamble by trying to achieve pole position in just three attempts – a...
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