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MotoGP Germany: Nuggets and pub ammo

57 - Danny Kent’s fifty seven points lead in the world championship classification is the greatest points lead any rider has had at the head of the lightweight-class championship standings after eight races since Haruchika Aoki had a lead of 69 points over Stefano Perugini in the 125cc classification after eight races of the 1995 season.
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- In spite of the very mixed conditions at the German Grand Prix last year, Bradley Smith, who crossed the line in 19th place, was just 56.293 seconds behind race winner Marc Marquez. This was the first time ever in a premier-class grand prix that has gone full distance, that the first 19 riders have crossed the finishing line within one minute.
31 years - At the Dutch TT Johann Zarco became the first French rider to take back-to-back wins in the intermediate-class of grand prix racing, since Christian Sarron won the Austrian and German 250cc GP races in 1984, the year he went on to take the world title. No French rider has ever won three successive grand prix races in the intermediate-class.
28 -Tito Rabat’s second place finish at the Dutch TT was the 28th time that he has stood on the podium in the Moto2 class; this gives him the record for most podium finishes in Moto2 , previously held by Tom Luthi.
12 -Valentino Rossi has finished on the podium at the last twelve successive races. This is the longest sequence of podium finishes he has achieved since he was on the podium at the final nine races of 2008 and the opening three races of 2009. The last time that he had a longer sequence of podium finishes was when he was on the podium from the Malaysian GP in 2004 until the Czech GP in 2005, a sequence of fourteen podium finishes.
8 - Maverick Viñales has finished in a point scoring position in every one of his first eight starts in the MotoGP class, something only two other rookies have managed in the MotoGP era: John Hopkins in 2002 and Hector Barbera in 2010. If Viñales finishes in the top fifteen in Germany he will become the first MotoGP rookie to score points in his first nine races, as both Hopkins and Barbera failed to finish their ninth MotoGP race.
6 - Dani Pedrosa is the rider with the most victories at the new Sachsenring circuit with 6 wins (2x 250cc, 4 x MotoGP ), followed by 5 for Valentino Rossi (1 x 250cc, 4 x MotoGP ) and Marc Marquez (1 x 125cc, 2 x Moto2 , 2 x MotoGP).
5 - Sachsenring is one of only two circuits, along with Indianapolis, where Honda have won in the MotoGP class in each of the last five years.
3 - At the Dutch TT, Johann Zarco became only the fourth French rider to win three intermediate-class (Moto2 /250cc) GP races in a single season, along with: Christian Sarron (1984), Olivier Jacque (2000) and Randy de Puniet (2003). No French rider has ever won four intermediate-class grand prix races in a single season.
3 - Valentino Rossi’s victory at the Dutch TT was his third win of 2015. This is the first time since 2009 that he has had more than two victories in a single season.

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