Enea Bastianini conquers Silverstone. The race of the 75th anniversary of the World Championship, where all the MotoGP riders took to the track with different colors than usual, with new graphics and dedicated to the history of the MotoGP, is all Enea Bastianini’s who in MotoGP put on a show in the Monster Energy Grand Prix of Great Britain.
Behind him are Jorge Martin, who after this weekend returns to the top of the World Championship with a three-point advantage, and the world champion Francesco Bagnaia. Bastianini thus becomes the tenth consecutive winner at Silverstone, after Jorge Lorenzo (2013), Marc Marquez (2014), Valentino Rossi (2015), Maverick Viñales (2016), Andrea Dovizioso (2017), Alex Rins (2019), Fabio Quartararo (2021), Francesco Bagnaia (2022) and Aleix Espargaró (2023).
With his victory in Sunday’s race, Bastianini gives himself his sixth victory in MotoGP, placing a beautiful double after the success achieved on Saturday in the Tissot Sprint (ahead of Martin and A. Espargaro).
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At the end of the Silverstone weekend, thanks to his two second places, Jorge Martin returns to the lead of the World Championship (241 points) with a three-point advantage over Bagnaia and 49 over Bastianini. Marc Marquez is fourth, 62 points behind (here is the complete ranking).
MotoGP will return to action in two weeks, with the Austrian GP, which will take place at the Red Bull Ring (16-18 August).