Marc Marquez snatched victory on the final lap of the Australian grand prix at Philip Island as Maverick Vinales crashed out late on. Marquez got an average start but remained within the top five during the opening stages of the race, ahead of pole-man Vinales who got an even worse getaway and had slipped to sixth. The leading group of eight riders remained close throughout the opening third of the contest, led initially by Valentino Rossi who got his 400th MotoGP start underway in the strongest way possible. Vinales proved to have considerably more pace than the others around him though, and slowly but surely worked his way through from sixth to take the lead away from Cal Crutchlow with...
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