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Free Malaysia Today
25-05-2025
- Automotive
- Free Malaysia Today
Aprilia's Bezzecchi wins British GP after Quartararo heartbreak
Marco Bezzecchi today became the 11th different winner at Silverstone in the last 11 races. (AFP pic) SILVERSTONE : Marco Bezzecchi won a chaotic British Grand Prix today for Aprilia's first victory of the season in a race that was initially red flagged for an oil spill and riders crashed or retired while in the lead. The victory was a first for Aprilia since the Grand Prix of the Americas last year. LCR Honda's Johann Zarco came second and Ducati's Marc Marquez pipped Franco Morbidelli to finish third and extend his lead in the world championship. Both Alex Marquez and his brother Marc crashed while leading before the race was restarted for an oil spill while polesitter Fabio Quartararo took the lead at the second time of asking before being forced to retire due to an issue with his bike. Bezzecchi's victory was his first since the 2023 Indian Grand Prix and the Italian also became the 11th different winner at Silverstone in the last 11 races. Witness football history in Malaysia as Manchester United take on the Asean All-Stars – it's the clash you can't afford to miss. Book your seat now at before they're gone!
BBC News
24-05-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
MotoGP: Silverstone aims for 'lightest impact' on locals
The boss of the Silverstone Circuit has said he aims to have the "lightest possible impact on the local community" during big 78,000 motorcycling fans are expected at the circuit across the weekend for this year's British July, the venue will host more than 400,000 people for Formula 1's British Grand chief executive Stuart Pringle said: "We have to operate within the community here in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire." Silverstone has staged every MotoGP since 2010 after plans to move it to the Circuit of Wales never materialised, with the track never being and qualifying is on Saturday and the race gets under way at 13:00 BST on Sunday, with other races also scheduled across the weekend. "We make sure all of our needs have the lightest possible impact on the local community," said Mr Pringle."But the reality is when your bringing the kind of crowd we have for the MotoGP this weekend or the F1, which is substantially bigger, of course our presence will be felt, but we try and make sure that is as light as possible." 'Evolution of the circuit' This year marks 75 years since the first Formula 1 Grand Prix, which took place at Pringle said the circuit was "very proud of our history".But he added: "You don't want to be rearward-looking about it - we always want to be forward looking."We want to be putting on world class events that fans of today want." LISTEN: The Motorsport Show on BBC Radio Northampton Over the last few years the circuit has been adding music acts to its race weekend, with Hard-Fi and Jake Bugg playing this weekend, and Sam Fender, RAYE, Fatboy Slim and Becky Hill at the F1 Grand Pringle said the music acts was "about the evolution of things" at the added: "Enzo Ferrari famously said 'my most important race is the next race' and that's how we feel." Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
