ANDREA Dovizioso won the last British Grand Prix at Donington Park as the top three riders in the MotoGP World Championship had a race to forget.
The Repsol Honda rider won his first ever Grand Prix in the premier class after Fiat Yamaha duo Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo both crashed while leading in front of nearly 90,000 fans.
Rossi was able to remount his bike and finish fifth to increase his championship lead over Lorenzo to 25 points but will rue throwing away the chance to claim a title stranglehold.
Marlboro Ducati rider and 2007 World Champion Casey Stoner also had a bad afternoon as his tyre gamble backfired to leave him 14th.
British rider James Toseland took his Tech 3 Yamaha to a sixth place finish as British fans said goodbye to Donington ahead of next year’s move to Silverstone.
Colin Edwards grabbed a first podium of the year in second, but the Texan admitted that negotiating the slippery circuit was extremely hazardous.
He said: “That was 48 minutes of hell. I wouldn’t wish that race on my worst enemy.
“Every corner you didn’t know if you were going to fall off or not as half the circuit was wet and half of it dry. I did not enjoy that at all.
“But I have a new tactic for riding in the wet. I now use a dark visor so you can’t see where the wet patches are as everyone rides faster when they can’t see where they’re going.”
