Overview
- Raul Fernandez won the British MotoGP Grand Prix in a lights-to-flag performance, leading every one of the 20 laps to claim victory on Sunday at Silverstone.
- Aprilia locked out the podium with Jorge Martin second and Marco Bezzecchi third, extending Martin’s championship lead to 31 points.
- Fernandez had crashed out of Saturday’s Sprint after a poor launch he blamed on a clutch/start issue, then redeemed himself with the dominant main-race showing.
- The weekend exposed recurring problems for other teams: visible rear-tyre graining in the Sprint and race plus start and clutch behaviour that hampered several rivals’ race pace.
- Bezzecchi’s return from recent collarbone and knee injuries to finish third highlights rider recovery, and Ogura’s lap-nine crash and retirement has weakened his title challenge.