MotoGP Silverstone: Dovi wins to take title lead, Marquez blows
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Andrea Dovizioso celebrated his fourth win ꩵof the season with a late pass on Valentino Rossi in Sunday's🌌 British MotoGP at Silverstone.
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Andrea Dovizioso celebrated his fourth win of 𝔍the season with a late pass on Valentino Rossi in Sunday's British Moto♋GP at Silverstone.
A dream day for the Ducati rider was completed when he also took over the world championship l𝔍ead from Marc Marquez, who pulled off in a cloud of smoke following an engine failure on his💛 Repsol Honda.
Rossi led for 17 of the 20 laps, ju🐽st ahead of Movistar Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales, Dovizioso, Marquez and home star Cal Crutchlow.
Marquez was running third behind Rossi and Do💟vizioso when his RC213V engine dramatically expired at the end of the Hangar Straight on lap 13.
Dovizioso - who began the race fro♔m sixth on the grid - made his vic♕tory pass on Rossi at the same place, with three laps remaining.
Rossi then fell victim to Vinales, the only frontrunner tꦦo 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&nbs♓p;less than one-second from Rossi and the final podium place, but still finis📖hed 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 finished between the RCVS.
Scott Redding claimed his best result since Qatar with eig෴hth 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 𝓀Iannone fell from 13th place in the closing stages, wiping out Danilo Petrucci ahead of hℱim.
Zarco's team-mate Jonas Folger missed the race after a big warm-up💛 accident, which is t﷽hought to have 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 points cover the top four riders.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Va꧋lentino Rossi come and go🐼. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
