MotoGP: Enea Basitianini has taken out the British Grand Prix ahead Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia.
Sunday’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, a retro round to celebrate 75 years of the world champion ship that doubled as the midpoint of the 2024 season, was a throwback to the past aesthetically, but a reinforcement of the present statistically.
With all eight of its bikes finishing inside the top 10 at Silverstone – only the 2023 German GP when Ducati was denied a clean sweep of the top eight by KTM’s Jack Miller has been more dominant – the Borgo Panigale brand continues to set the MotoGP standard.
One-lap qualifying pace has often been his bugbear, with his late-race tyre heroics often coming to nothing because he’d started too far back. At Silverstone, after he qualified third, it was game on. “Probably yes,” he responded when asked if the British GP was his best weekend of his four-year premier-class career.
Bagnaia crashed out of Saturday’s sprint race – his fourth non-score in 10 short-form races this season – and has scored just 45 of his 238 points in sprints this year, Martin close to doubling the world champion’s Saturday tally with 86 points. “We always want the victory but I think was our best. I think I did a really intelligent race Enea at the end was on another level. I tried to keep with him the last lap, but it was impossible. I’m really happy I was intelligent, I tried to manage the situation and I finished on the podium.
Miller stayed 16th in the standings after Silverstone, but found some silver linings in his results, if not the gap to the front. Fellow Australian Remy Gardner, filling in for injured British rider Cal Crutchlow as a wildcard rider for Yamaha’s test team, qualified last and finished at the back in both races in 18th, his focus more on evaluating parts in a race environment for the Japanese manufacturer.
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