Repsol Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso extended his run of MotoGP podiums by taking second place in today's British Grand Prix and recording his best finish of the 2010 season so far. The result promotes Dovizioso to an impressive second place in the World Championship ahead of his team-mate Dani Pedrosa who came home in eighth place today.
Dovizioso put on a combative display at Silverstone to convert fourth on the grid into second at the chequered flag and take his fourth podium finish from the first five rounds of the year. By the end of lap one he was up to second place and then entered into a battle with Randy De Puniet which lasted for almost the entire race. As today's winner Jorge Lorenzo broke away at the front, Dovizioso and De Puniet traded places before the Repsol Honda pilot made his decisive move on lap 11. He was able to open just enough of a gap to fend off his pursuers to claim 20 championship points.
"I'm really happy with second in the race, and we also have second in the championship now so this reflects our strong start to the season," Dovizioso said. "In the middle of the race I saw many riders were closing in behind me and so I tried to push at 100 per cent to get a gap and try to avoid a fight on last lap. Corners 13 and 14 towards the end of the lap are really slow and you can see clearly the riders that are behind, and also here it would be easy to be overtaken on the last lap if they were too close, so it was important to get a gap, which I managed to do.
"I'm so pleased with the season so far and I'd like to say thank you to Honda and to the team for the work they are doing. We still need to improve so that we can battle for race wins, but we are one step closer today and it's a good result for us at the start of a busy period of races. Next stop is Assen and we must move forward again so that we have a chance of winning there."
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