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Fernandez leads during the British MotoGP at Silverstone [Glyn Kirk\/AFP]<\/p>\nAprilia rider\u2019s victory over championship leader Jorge Martin extends Silverstone\u2019s run of different Grand Prix winners to twelve in a row.<\/p>\n
Published On 9 Aug 20269 Aug 2026<\/p>\n
Trackhouse Aprilia Racing\u2019s Raul Fernandez led from the opening lap to win the British MotoGP at Silverstone on Sunday, capitalising on an early setback for championship leader Jorge Martin.<\/p>\n
Fernandez swept past pole-sitter Martin into turn one and never looked back, stretching his advantage to more than four seconds before taking the chequered flag 2.54 seconds clear. The victory was the Spaniard\u2019s second in MotoGP and his first since last year\u2019s Australian Grand Prix, completing an impressive recovery from a crash in Saturday\u2019s sprint.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI am really happy for the team. Yesterday (Saturday) I was quite frustrated after my mistake. But we are human and it is part of the sport,\u201d Fernandez said.<\/p>\n
Spain\u2019s Martin, who won the sprint, was hampered at the start when his ride-height device failed to disengage at turn one, dropping him behind Marc Marquez and fellow Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi. The championship leader recovered to reclaim second from Bezzecchi on lap nine but was unable to get close enough to challenge Fernandez.<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s runner-up finish extended his championship lead to 31 points, with Bezzecchi, who finished third, moving up to second in the standings. Ogura lost ground after his first retirement of the season, falling 37 points behind Martin.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe results here are a big boost of confidence for me and the team,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems like we found a bit of direction to get the momentum on our side now. The race was fantastic. I made a small mistake at the start, but I am glad I was able to fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fernandez leads during the British MotoGP at Silverstone [Glyn Kirk\/AFP]<\/p>\n
Defending world champion Marc Marquez endured another difficult afternoon, finishing seventh after starting sixth on the grid and dropping to fourth in the standings.<\/p>\n
Bezzecchi faced stiff competition from Gresini Racing\u2019s Alex Marquez, who made a late mistake and dropped back. Alex Marquez continued to put pressure on Bezzecchi, but was unable to chase him down as the Aprilia rider finished third to secure his second podium of the weekend.<\/p>\n
The result was particularly significant for Bezzecchi, who led the MotoGP championship earlier this season and was recording his first Sunday finish since winning his home Italian Grand Prix at the end of May.<\/p>\n
Alex Marquez came fourth, KTM\u2019s Pedro Acosta fifth and VR46 Racing\u2019s Fabio Di Giannantonio sixth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia rider\u2019s victory over championship leader Jorge Martin extends Silverstone\u2019s run of different Grand Prix winners to twelve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,2057,806,805,3152,803,804,44,588,85,3586],"class_list":["post-849392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}