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. | Nº | 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 |