MotoGP Silverstone: Dovi wins to take title lead, Marquez blows
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Andrea Dovizioso celebrated his fourth win of the season with a late pasಌs on Valentino Rossi in Sunda✱y's British MotoGP at Silverstone.
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Andrea Dov🍎izioso 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 of smoke following an ꦓengine failure on his Repsol Honda.
Rossi led for 17 of the 20 laps, just ahead of Movistar Yamaha team-mate Mꩵaverick Vi🌳nales, Dovizioso, Marquez and home star Cal Crutchlow.
Marquez was running third behind Rossi and Dovizioso when his RC213V engine dramatically expired at the end of the Hangar Straight🉐 on lap 13.
Dovizioso - who began the race from sixth oꦗn the grid - made his victory pass on 🐻Rossi at the same place, with three laps remaining.
Rossi then fell victim to Vinales, the only frontrunner to opt for the soft rather than hard rear tyre, a few corners later. Th🐻e race endeꩵd 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 t꧟he top Honda rider, 8.5s clear of Dani Pedrosa in seventh. Dovizioso's team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rookie Joh🍷ann Zarco finished between the RCVS.
Scott Reddin🅺g claimed his best result since Qa𓄧tar 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 Iannone 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 warm-up accident, which is thought to have been caused by a brak❀e 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 championshi🧜p standings by 9 points from Marquez. 26 points cover the top fo💖ur riders.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Vale♛ntino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
