Marquez takes 11th win

The 2014 British Grand Prix at Silverstone on August 31 saw a great battle between Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo, won by the former as he made an immediate return to winning ways, while Valentino Rossi joined them on the podium.

Lorenzo took the initiative to pull out in front in the early stages but Marquez stayed with the front group and took the fight to his Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rival. Marquez had the pace to catch Lorenzo, but made two slight errors, giving Lorenzo the opportunity to retake the lead twice.

The pair battled right to the last lap, even touching at one stage and with Repsol Honda's Marquez eventually crossing the line 0.732 seconds ahead of Lorenzo. The result sees Marquez become the first rider since Valentino Rossi in 2005 to win 11 MotoGP races in a single season, and also sees him return to victory after his fourth place at Brno.

Nine-time world champion Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) was chased hard for third by the experienced pair of Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) and Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team). Rossi made it onto the rostrum but was trailed by just 0.175 seconds by Pedrosa and 0.544 seconds by Dovizioso. ‘The Doctor' set a new outright record of 246 starts in the premier class of Grand Prix racing in the Silverstone contest.

Pol Espargaro (Monster Yamaha Tech3) won a battle for sixth place as his impressive rookie campaign continued. Stefan Bradl (LCR Honda MotoGP), Andrea Iannone (Pramac Racing), Aleix Espargaro (NGM Forward Racing) and top British finisher Scott Redding (GO&FUN Honda Gresini) completed the top 10. Alvaro Bautista (GO&FUN Honda Gresini) crashed out towards the end of the race, ruining his quest for a top 10 finish, while Australia's Broc Parkes (Paul Bird Motorsport) was the final ride to cross the chequered flag, well out of the points.

FULL SILVERSTONE RESULTS

Moto2
The race was won by Tito Rabat (Marc VDS Racing Team), with teammate Mika Kallio and Maverick Viñales (Paginas Amarillas HP 40) joining him on the podium.

Standings leader Rabat rode brilliantly from fourth on the grid, staying with the front group and making a move on provisional leader Kallio in the final stages to take maximum points again.

Kallio did his best to hold off his Spanish colleague but was eventually beaten to the line by just 0.063 seconds, whilst Viñales (Paginas Amarillas HP 40) showed his talent once again to finish in third place, only 0.14 seconds adrift of Rabat.

Pole man Johann Zarco (AirAsia Caterham Moto Racing) came home fourth, 2.571 seconds back on the race winner. Thomas Luthi (Interwetten Paddock Moto2) and Franco Morbidelli (Italtrans Racing Team) picked up good points in fifth and sixth.

Home rider Sam Lowes (Speed Up), Hafizh Syahrin (Petronas Raceline Malaysia), Mattia Pasini (NGM Forward Racing) and Axel Pons (AGR Team) completed the top 10, while Australia's Anthony West (QMMF Racing Team) was 22nd.

An early crash ruined the day for Dominique Aegerter (Technomag carXpert) as he clipped the back wheel of Viñales and ended up in the gravel. The Swiss rider remounted to finish 21st.

Also struggling early in the race was debutant Dakota Mamola, son of former 500cc star Randy, who was forced to pull into the Mapfre Aspar Team Moto2 garage with a technical problem. Substituting for unwell Spanish rider Nico Terol, Mamola rejoined and gathered experience at the back of the field.

On the Taylor Made bike for Brough Superior Racing 50-year-old veteran Jeremy McWilliams rode valiantly, despite a broken nose sustained in a Saturday practice crash and a lap time way off the pace of the rest of the field. He was lapped by the frontrunners with three laps to go but collected crucial data for the team.

Moto3
The race was won by Alex Rins on the final corner, with Alex Marquez and Enea Bastianini also on the podium.

Pole sitter Rins (Estrella Galicia 0,0) was pushed right to the limit by his teammate Marquez and by Bastianini, who both provisionally led the race. The winning margin was just 0.011 seconds, with Bastianini (Junior Team Go&FUN Moto3) just 0.061 seconds back on Marquez.

Miguel Oliveira (Mahindra Racing) was unlucky to miss the podium, having run with that front group. He eventually finished fourth and was just 0.051 seconds away from a rostrum result.

A further four-and-half-seconds back Jakub Kornfeil (Calvo Team) won a battle for fifth involving a huge group of riders, while Australia's championship leader Jack Miller (Red Bull KTM Ajo) was just 0.1 seconds behind in sixth place.