Marc Marquez officially dropped out of MotoGP title contention with a subdued fourth in Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix. Champion since joining the premier-class in 2013, Marquez had admitted that his chances of three-in-a-row realistically ended with a fall in the wet at Silverstone - the fourth of his five DNFs this season. Marquez's latest misfortune saw the Repsol Honda star fracture the fifth metacarpal of his left hand in a mountain bike accident, prompting surgery just before Japan. Although he qualified on the front row, Marquez openly doubted that he could challenge the Yamahas of Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi in the dry and never felt fully comfortable with his RCV in the wet....
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