MotoGP title leader Valentino Rossi banished his qualifying jinx with pole position for the Dutch TT at Assen. With his championship lead slashed to a single point, and without even a front row start this season, Rossi responded by blasting from ninth to first with one minute of qualifying to go. The 36-year-old then remained 0.213s clear of Suzuki's Aleix Espargaro and 0.259s in front of Honda's reigning champion Marc Marquez to claim his first pole since Valencia last season. “It is so important,” Rossi began. “This season I'm always competitive in the race, which is most important, but at the same time I'm struggling too much in practice. Not just pole position, but never on the...
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