MotoGP Silverstone: Dovi wins to take title lead, Marquez blows
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Andrea Dovizioso celebrated h♑is fourth win of the season with a late pass on Valentino Rossi in Sunday's British MotoGP at Silverstone.
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Andrea Dovizio☂so celebrated his fourth win of the season with a late pass on Valentino Rossi in Sunday's British MotoGP at Silverstone.
A dream day for the Ducati rider was completed when he also took over the world championship lead from Marc Marquez, who pulled off in a cloud ꦜof smoke following an engine failure on his Repsol Hon♎da.
Rossi led for 17 of the 20 laps, just ahead of Mo𒆙vistar Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales, Dovizioso, Marquez and home star Cal Crutchlow.
Marquez was running third behind Rossi and Dovizioso when his RC213V ✱engine dramatically expired at the en♈d of the Hangar Straight on lap 13.
Dovizioso - who began the race from sixth on the grid - made his victory pass on♓ Ross🐼i at the same place, with three laps remaining.
Rossi then fell victim to V🍰inales, the only frontrunner to opt for the soft rather than hard rear tyre, a few corners later. The꧋ race ended with the top three covered by just 0.749s.
Crutchlow was less than one-second from Rossi and the final podium place, but still finished as the top Honda rider, 8.5s clear of Dani Pedrosa in seventh. Dovizioso's team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rookie Johann Zarco fin🍸ished between the RCVS.
Scott Redding claimed his best result since Qatar with eighth in his final Silverstone appearance for Pramac Ducati on a day 💝when Alex Rins (Suzuki) and Alvaro Bautista 🐓(Aspar Ducati) completed the top ten.
Pol Espargaro finished a commendable eleventh for KTM, then highsided at turn one after the chequered flag.
Suzuki's Andrea Ia♉nnone fell from 🌌13th place in the closing stages, wiping out Danilo Petrucci ahead of him.
Zarco's team-mate Jonas Folger missed the race after a big war🅠m-up accident, which is thought to haveܫ been caused by a brake failure.
Dovizioso has now won more races than any other rider this season and will start Ducati's home Misano round back on top of the world championship standings by 9 points from Marquez. 26 poin💝ts cover the top four riders.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and ha𝄹s seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
