– Honda rider Marc Márquez hailed an "important" race at the Dutch TT as he opened up a 24-point advantage in the MotoGP championship.Márquez stayed upright in wet conditions at Assen to finish the race in second position, as Jorge Lorenzo struggled to 10th place while Valentino Rossi crashed out.Márquez's third successive runners-up position leaves him with a 24-point buffer back to Lorenzo, with Rossi a further 18 points behind in third spot."Today was an important race, because it was the time to lose many points or to gain many points and we gained many points," he explained."We were lucky because also the mentality helped us a lot, to just go out and...
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