Lunix I Posted October 20, 2019 Posted October 20, 2019 Suzuki's Alex Rins won a spectacular British MotoGP race, taking the lead in a brave move on the last corner to beat championship leader, Marc Marquez, by just 0.013 seconds. Rins and Marquez pushed each other all the way to the end of the race, trading places several times in the last two laps, with Rins eventually coming out on top, moving his factory Suzuki machine up the inside in the final turn. Completing the podium was the factory Yamaha of Maverick Vinales, who took third spot on the podium ahead of teammate Valentino Rossi. French rookie, Fabio Quartararo, had a disastrous race, crashing out on the exit of turn one and taking Andrea Dovizioso with him. Quartararo eventually walked away in some discomfort, with Dovizioso stretchered to safety before getting to his feet. In the aftermath of the crash, Rins moved himself up to third place and started to break away with race leader Marquez and the pursuing Rossi, who had high hopes for the race after qualifying second. Rins took the lead for the first time with 12 laps to go before Marquez managed to find his way back past. Rossi fell another place to fourth behind teammate Vinales and remained there for the rest of the race. British rider, Cal Crutchlow finished in sixth place after a crash in Q2 on Saturday left him starting from ninth place on the grid. Down the field, Johan Zarco’s tricky season got worse when on the ninth lap he made a lunge up the inside of Tech 3 KTM man, Miguel Oliveira, making contact with the Portuguese rider and taking them both out of the race. Other fallers consisted of LCR rider Takaaki Nakagami, who low sided at turn 16, before remounting to finish seventeenth. Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro retried after one lap, after muscling his machine into Q2 yesterday.
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