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Rossi and Iannone were faster and had better pace than Lorenzo, yet finished behind him. As you say unwittingly, this isn't the idea of racing. It happened though, because Marc Marquez decided sandbagging and involving himself with the battle for second would suit his purposes better.  Allow me to quote esteemed journalist David Emmett, who wrote this in his 'Saturday Roundup' blog for Phillip Island 2015.. "His supremacy in qualifying was vast.. the gap between Márquez and Iannone in second is almost as much as the gap between Iannone and Aleix Espargaro in eighth. Márquez was fastest all day on Saturday, by four tenths in the morning, six tenths in the afternoon. His race pace is just as superior, three or four tenths a lap quicker than the rest of the field." So where did that superior pace go during most of the race when he was battling with Rossi and Iannone, which allowed the slowest rider a gap to ride unhindered at the front? The reality is, it didn't go anywhere and was in Marc's pocket all along as we saw on the last lap, and on which he was over a second faster than Jorge. Strange how Lorenzo moved out the way at MG, without defending, to let him through too, innit?