Dovizioso pips Marquez to win MotoGP opener in Qatar


Motorcycle Racing - Qatar Motorcycle Grand Prix - MotoGP race - Losail, Qatar - March 18, 2018 - First-placed Ducati Team rider Andrea Dovizioso of Italy celebrates. REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari

(Reuters) - Italian Andrea Dovizioso won the Qatar Grand Prix for Ducati by the blink of an eye on Sunday as MotoGP served up a season-opening thriller at the floodlit Losail circuit.

Honda's reigning world champion Marc Marquez finished a mere 0.027 seconds behind the man who took last season's title battle down to the wire.

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