Valentino Rossi has wrestled back control in the fight for the 2015 MotoGP world championship after winning a rain-affected British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The Italian first resisted the challenge of Marc Marquez before a mid-race crash, and then held off an inspired Danilo Petrucci in a gripping finale. Conditions were changing by the moment in the run-up to the race and it led to farcical scenes on the formation lap. With every rider on slick-shod machines, the steady drizzle forced everyone into the pitlane for a change of motorcycles, rather than to the grid. With the scenario of 24 MotoGP bikes racing each other out of pitlane on their hands, race direction took the sensible...
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