Overview
- Marc Marquez secured pole in wet qualifying, overcame rain to win the sprint and led every lap of the dry main race at Sachsenring
- The perfect weekend lifts him 83 points clear of brother Alex Marquez as the title fight moves into its second half
- Only 10 of 18 starters reached the finish after a series of Turn 1 crashes decimated the main race
- Fabio Di Giannantonio surprised with top Friday practice pace and held a front-running position early on before crashing out
- Enea Bastianini withdrew with appendicitis and Franco Morbidelli suffered a collarbone contusion in the sprint, further thinning the field