Reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez snatched victory from last year’s Silverstone winner Jorge Lorenzo with three laps left with a decisive move at the Loop lifting his fellow Spaniard up into the left hander and leaving Lorenzo with no reply.
Lorenzo had led from the first lap with Marquez in tow, the pair immediately pulling a gap on Valentino Rossi, Andrea Dovizioso and Dani Pedrosa who were left seven second back down the road in their battle for the final podium spot.
Marquez shadowed the Movistar Yamaha rider until lap 13 when he passed the Barcelona rider but then an uncharacteristic error two laps later saw Marquez run very wide and Lorenzo re-took the lead.
He couldn’t get away however and Marquez was back past with three to go. Lorenzo put some manners on Marquez into Village as he had a look around the outside but as they went left through the Loop, Marquez stuffed his RC213V under Lorenzo and sat him up before escaping down the straight.
Rossi held off both Pedrosa and Dovizioso to bag the final podium spot as the trio went at it hammer and tongs for most of the race. It looked like Pedrosa had the pace to pull away when he past Rossi with 12 to go but he was swallowed back up by the Italian who held it to the line.
It was disaster for Britain’s Bradley Smith who finished in 22nd place after a problem mid-race saw his pace drop dramatically and he ended some nine seconds behind PBM Aprilia’s Broc Parkes.
Scott Redding finished in tenth place with Cal Crutchlow ending as last Ducati in 12th as Yonny Hernandez, on last year’s bike, finished one place and three seconds ahead of the Coventry man.
Leon Camier just missed a points score, ending the race in 16th place, six seconds behind Alex De Angelis in 15th while Michael Laverty was one place further back in 17th.
