Britain's Scott Redding scored an historic home win in his last Moto2 race at Silverstone's MotoGP round this lunchtime in front of probably the biggest crowd the Northamptonshire circuit has seen since the days of Sheene and Roberts.
The MarcVDS man becomes the first British rider to win a Grand Prix at Silverstone since Ian Mcconnachie did it on a 80cc machine in 1986 and he extends his championship lead over Pol Espargaro who limped over the line in eighth place.
"That was amazing. The atmosphere was pushing me on and to get a home win here has done amazing things for my championship," said Redding in parc ferme.
The 19-lap race was between three riders, Redding, Taakaki Nakagami and Thomas Luthi, with Dominic Aegerter in the mix early on. Redding was away off the line and led until there were seven laps to go when the Japanese Italtrans rider slipped past him at the loop.
Luthi held a watching brief after taking second from Nakagami for five laps and a mistake by the Japanese saw Redding go back past into the loop and he was never headed again. Luthi also capitalised on the error to take second place.
On the penultimate lap, Nakagami went back past the Swiss and the move gave Redding the gap he needed, crossing the line with a little over a second in hand as the crowd went absolutely bananas.
Esteve Rabat, who had closed right down in the last six laps, couldn't find a way past and ended the day in fourth with Aegerter in fifth and Mika Kallio, who won last time out at Brno in sixth place.
Britain's Danny Kent couldn't find his free practice form and ended the day in 18th after a qualifying crash saw him start from 27th while Gino Rea slipped off his Suter with only a handful of laps to go.
British Supersport regular Jason O'Halloran ended his Moto2 debut on the JiR in 25th place.
