Movistar Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi, 36 years old, once again proved that he is an experienced rider. As evidenced by doing wet race at MotoGP, Silverstone, British, on Sunday (8/30)
Valentino Rossi successfully defeats his rivals Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez.
Through this victory at Silverstone circuit, it is automatically bring him to lead the points or 12 points leads from Jorge Lorenzo. This is first time for Rossi as a winner at Silverstone circuit since ten years ago.
“I’m very happy and proud of this victory, it’s a great feeling! I think that the last race on the wet that I won was ten years ago.” said Valentino Rossi.
From his statements, it looks Rossi so excited. Maybe he had great confidence with his bike.
At first the race will start with dry lap, unfortunately rain came down heavier. The race delayed about 25 minutes then.
At begin, Repsol Honda rider Marc Marquez start in first position, Rossi team-mate Jorge Lorenzo starts in second position, Dani Pedrosa starts in third position, the Doctor Valentino Rossi starts in fourth position.
The race looks so amazing and surprised. Marc Marquez shadowing Valentino Rossi with eight laps to go, unfortunately Marc Marquez was thrown from his bike.
Marc Marquez admitted after the race that he rode hard on a slippery track. Responding to failure. Marc Marquez so pessimistic about his chances of retaining the world title. Now he left behind 77 points from Valentino Rossi who leads the points.
Rossi team-mate Jorge Lorenzo couldn’t do maximum. Lorenzo performs was bad because of some reasons. Lorenzo completely lost vision in this race. And he left behind 12 points from Rossi.
“The problem was when it started raining more and the temperature went down and I caught Andrea I couldn’t see. I completely lost my vision, because the visor was foggy.” said Lorenzo.
Jorge Lorenzo is shadowing Valentino Rossi’s points. (Photo:cycledworld)
Jorge Lorenzo also claimed that he almost had a big crash with Alex Espargaro who made an incomprehensible move. In last corner Lorenzo only reached fourth position. Fierce battles have occurred since the initial laps when Lorenzo poked the first position by overtaking Marc Marquez who started on pole position.
Jorge Lorenzo comes under pressure from Marc Marquez and also Valentino Rossi amid heavy rain. Finally Valentino Rossi able to overtake his two competitors and managed to cross the finish line. In the second place is occupied by Danilo Petrucci who appears surprising in this series. Andrea Dovizioso followed in third place. Jorge Lorenzo followed in fourth place.
The next MotoGP series will be held in Misano, Italy, September 13th next. Although Rossi will be hard to beat there, Jorge Lorenzo will focus to defeat Valentino Rossi.
