2015 German motorcycle Grand Prix
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| Race 9 of 18 races in the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 12 July 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | GoPro Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland[1][2][3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Sachsenring | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2015 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.[4] It was held at the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal on 12 July 2015.
In the MotoGP class, Marc Márquez won his second race of the season from pole position. This was Márquez's sixth successive win from pole at the Sachsenring across all classes.[5] His teammate Dani Pedrosa finished in second for Honda's first 1–2 finish of the season, and Valentino Rossi finished in third. At the end of the weekend, Rossi remained championship leader with a 13 point lead over Jorge Lorenzo.[6]
Scott Redding and Andrea Dovizioso crashed out from the race before the halfway mark. Hiroshi Aoyama, who was riding as replacement for an injured Karel Abraham, also crashed out from the race. Mike Di Meglio and Claudio Corti, who was riding as replacement for an injured Stefan Bradl, were forced to retire from the race. The race also saw Michael Laverty return to MotoGP as a temporary replacement for Marco Melandri, who had left Gresini midseason after failing to score any points in the first eight races.[7]
