Britain’s Bradley Smith and Scott Redding stood next to Marc Marquez on the Misano MotoGP podium today after mixed conditions and two different pitstop strategies saw them able to claim 20 and 16 points respectively.
Redding crashed early doors when the rain came down but made it back to the pits, changed bikes to wets, then came in again, put the soft-option rear slick to good use to set fastest lap after fastest lap to move up the order and pass Loris Baz with four laps to go for third.
Brave Smith stayed out on slicks and tip-toed around in the wet, waited for a dry line and took a triumphant second career MotoGP podium, crossing the line seven seconds behind the reigning champion. He has now leapfrogged Andrea Dovizoso for fifth in the championship chase and is now 24 points behind Andrea Iannone in fourth
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MotoGP world standing:
1 Valentino ROSSI Yamaha ITA 247
2 Jorge LORENZO Yamaha SPA 224
3 Marc MARQUEZ Honda SPA 184
4 Andrea IANNONE Ducati ITA 159
5 Bradley SMITH Yamaha GBR 135
6 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Ducati ITA 128
7 Dani PEDROSA Honda SPA 109
8 Danilo PETRUCCI Ducati ITA 93
9 Pol ESPARGARO Yamaha SPA 81
10 Cal CRUTCHLOW Honda GBR 79
11 Maverick VIÑALES Suzuki SPA 69
12 Aleix ESPARGARO Suzuki SPA 66
13 Scott REDDING Honda GBR 63
14 Yonny HERNANDEZ Ducati COL 41
15 Loris BAZ Yamaha Forward FRA 28
16 Alvaro BAUTISTA Aprilia SPA 23
17 Hector BARBERA Ducati SPA 23
18 Jack MILLER Honda AUS 16
19 Nicky HAYDEN Honda USA 12
20 Stefan BRADL Aprilia GER 11
21 Michele PIRRO Ducati ITA 8
22 Eugene LAVERTY Honda IRL 7
23 Mike DI MEGLIO Ducati FRA 7
24 Hiroshi AOYAMA Honda JPN 5
25 Alex DE ANGELIS ART RSM 2
