SILVERSTONE, England- Australia's Casey Stoner won an incident-filled British MotoGP on Sunday to supplant defending champion Jorge Lorenzo at the top of the world championship standings.
Stoner, who started on pole, defied terrible racing conditions on a drenched Silverstone circuit to clinch a fourth victory in six rounds, becoming the first Honda rider to win three successive MotoGP races since Italian great Valentino Rossi in 2003.
Lorenzo was in second place when he crashed out in the eighth of 20 laps, seconds after teammate Ben Spies also fell.
Honda's Andrea Dovizioso was second, with Yamaha's Colin Edwards third.
Stoner's win lifted him 18 points above Lorenzo in the overall standings.
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