Silverstone MotoGP Race Day Guide
• Marc Marquez is on pole for the tenth time in 2014. He is aiming to become the first rider since Valentino Rossi in 2005 to win 11 MotoGP races in a single season
• Andrea Dovizioso starts from second place on the grid for the third successive race. Dovizioso has finished in the top ten at all 17 races since he crashed out of the race at Silverstone last year
• Jorge Lorenzo has qualified on the front row for the sixth time in 2014. Lorenzo has won three of the four MotoGP races that have taken place at the Silverstone circuit since the series returned from Donington Park from 2010 onwards
• Aleix Espargaro is in fourth place on the grid – the seventh time this year he has qualified on the second row
• Winner last time out at Brno, Dani Pedrosa, is in fifth place on the grid and will be aiming to win back-to-back races for the first time since he won at Jerez and Le Mans last year
• Taking the final place on the second row is Valentino Rossi, who is scheduled to set a new outright record of 246 starts in the premier-class of Grand Prix racing when he lines up on the grid at Silverstone
• Heading the third row of the grid is the highest-placed British rider, Bradley Smith. Smith and the other British riders will be aiming to improve on the previous best result in the MotoGP class at Silverstone by a British rider, which is sixth by Cal Crutchlow in 2012
• In eighth place on the grid is Pol Espargaro, who won the Moto2 race at Silverstone two years ago
• Stefan Bradl starts from ninth place on the grid. Bradl won the Moto2 race at Silverstone in 2011 en route to that year’s intermediate class title; this remains the last time that he has stood on the top step of the podium
• Andrea Iannone heads the fourth row of the grid – his worst qualifying result since the Grand Prix of Catalunya, when he started 11th
• Scott Redding has equaled his best qualifying result so far in his rookie season of MotoGP by qualifying in 11th place on the grid. Redding has twice won at his home GP: the 125cc race at Donington in 2008 and the Moto2 race at Silverstone last year
Moto2
• Johann Zarco has qualified on pole for the first time since moving up to the Moto2 class in 2012. This is also the first pole for the Caterham Suter machine
• Starting from second place on the grid is Mika Kallio, who has finished on the podium at the last four successive Moto2 races
• Simone Corsi is in third place on the grid – his first front row start since the final race of last year in Valencia
• Heading the second row of the grid is championship leader Tito Rabat, which marks only the second time this year that he has failed to qualify on the front row
• Jonas Folger has qualified in fifth place on the grid. Folger won the 125cc race at Silverstone in 2011 – his first ever win in Grand Prix racing
• Tom Luthi, who finished third last year in the Moto2 race at Silverstone, starts from sixth placeon the grid
• In seventh place on the grid is the highest-placed British rider in qualifying, Sam Lowes, racing in a Grand Prix for the first time on home soil
• In 33rd place on the grid is Grand Prix debutant Dakota Mamola, whose father Randy won the 500cc British GP at Silverstone in 1980
Moto3
• Alex Rins, who finished second last year at Silverstone, is starting from pole for the third time in 2014. Rins will be aiming to stand on the top step of the podium for the first time since he took his sixth win of 2013 in Australia
• Nico Antonelli is in second place on the grid, equaling his best ever qualifying result from theSpanish GP earlier in the year
• In third place on the grid is Alex Marquez: his sixth successive front row start. Marquez finished third at Silverstone last year, less than seven tenths of a second behind race winner Luis Salom
• Enea Bastianini, who heads the second row of the grid, will be aiming for back-to-back podium finishes in what is his rookie season of Grand Prix racing, having finished second at the last race in Brno
• Brad Binder is starting from the middle of the second row of the grid. Binder has finished in the top ten at the last six races and has already scored 66 championship points so far in 2014, which is exactly the same as his final points total of last year
• Alexis Masbou, winner of the last race at Brno, has qualified sixth on the grid. Masbou could become the first French rider to win back-to-back races in the lightweight-class of Grand Prix racing since Arnaud Vincent in 2002
• Championship leader Jack Miller has qualified in eighth place on the grid – only the third time this year the Australian has not started from the front row.
