11th victory of the season for Marc Márquez, this time in England. Lorenzo and Rossi completes the podium

The Hertz British Grand Prix in the longest circuit in the MotoGP championship, in Silverstone, under the gaze of Mark Webber and Mitch Evans, between the 67,5 thousand of spectators in the English track.

 

Márquez had started from pole position for tenth time this season, but the Repsol Honda Team driver had lost the first place at the start, with Lorenzo taking the lead followed by Márquez, Aleix Espargaró, Dovizioso and Rossi. Espargaró couldn’t withstand the attacks from Dovizioso, Rossi and Pedrosa; which divers overtook the Granollers driver.

 

This time the top 5 was the group who fights for the victory in the early laps, but the Dovizioso’s pace wasn’t enough and this gave hurry to Rossi and Pedrosa, who were behind the Ducati motorbike, to overtake him.

 

Once they had overtaken Dovizioso, Lorenzo and Márquez where far away, and Pedrosa took the advantage of the situation and overtook Rossi for third place. Meanwhile, Smith retires of the race.

 

The podium battles intensify; Pedrosa lose his podium position with Rossi and Dovizioso, meanwhile Márquez overtook Lorenzo and took the lead of the race. But Lorenzo re-took the lead after run wide by Márquez. But the 2013 champion had manage well to overtake Lorenzo with 5 laps remaining.

 

Results:

 

Pos. Rider Team Motorbike Gap Diff
1 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda
2 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha + 00,732 + 00,732
3 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha + 07,787 + 08,519
4 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda + 00,175 + 08,694
5 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati + 00,544 + 09,238
6 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha + 15,508 + 24,746
7 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda + 01,971 + 26,717
8 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Pramac Racing Ducati + 00,190 + 26,907
9 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA NGM Forward Racing Forward Yamaha + 06,545 + 33,452
10 45 Scott REDDING GBR GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda + 05,639 + 39,091
11 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Ducati + 01,161 + 40,252
12 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Ducati Team Ducati + 02,772 + 43,024
13 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Honda + 09,218 + 52,242
14 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Drive M7 Aspar Honda + 06,736 + 58,978
15 15 Alex de ANGELIS FRA NGM Forward Racing Forward Yamaha + 00,183 + 59,161
16 2 Leon CAMIER GBR Drive M7 Aspar Honda + 06,516 + 1:05,677
17 70 Michael LAVERTY GBR Paul Bird Motorsport PBM + 05,259 + 1:10,936
18 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Octo IodaRacing Team ART + 05,895 + 1:16,831
19 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Avintia Racing Avintia + 00,070 + 1:16,901
20 63 Mike DI MEGLIO FRA Avintia Racing Avintia + 18,035 + 1:34,936
21 23 Broc PARKES AUS Paul Bird Motorsport PBM + 03,503 + 1:38,439
22 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha + 08,765 + 1:47,204
RT 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda + Retired