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Marquez claims 11th win of season at Silverstone
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MOTOGP world champion Marc Marquez returned to winning ways with a thrilling 11th victory of the season after a British Grand Prix battle with fellow-Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo yesterday.
Marquez, who had put his Honda on pole position for the 10th time this season, lost out to Lorenzo at the start but seized back the lead from Yamaha’s double champion with seven laps to go.
Lorenzo was not about to give up, going back in front two laps later when Marquez ran wide. That was not the end of it, with Marquez then barging through three laps from the end with the bikes touching and almost locked together. The pair crossed the line just 0.732 of a second apart.
Italian Valentino Rossi, making a record 246th start in the top category, finished third on his Yamaha after another enthralling battle with Honda’s Dani Pedrosa and Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso.
Marquez, who has been beaten just once this season when he was fourth in the previous round in the Czech Republic, now has an 89-point lead over teammate Pedrosa — the winner in Brno but fourth at Silverstone. Marquez has 288 points, Pedrosa 199 and Rossi 189.
“Jorge was much stronger than I expected before the race,” Marquez, who was beaten by Lorenzo in last year’s race, told BT Sport television. “When I passed him the first time I expected to open a small gap but I did a small mistake and he came back. The battle was nice.”
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