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Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

Austin - World champion Marc Marquez of Spain won the Grand Prix of the Americas for the third straight year on Sunday to get his 2015 MotoGP campaign on track.

After a disappointing fifth-place finish in the season-opening race in Qatar, Marquez rebounded at the Texas track where he won for the first time in the elite MotoGP class.

A day after capturing pole position with dramatic late-session heroics, the 22-year-old Honda rider was in dominant form.

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