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For Aprilia’s first victory of the 2025 season, Marco Bezzecchi won a chaotic British Grand Prix, including pole-sitter Fabio Quartararo, in a race that was initially flagged for an oil spill due to riders who crashed or retired while in the lead.

Aprilia won the race first since the Grand Prix of the Americas last year. Johann Zarco of LCR Honda came second on Sunday, while Marc Marquez of Ducati surpassed Franco Morbidelli to finish third, extending his lead over riders worldwide.

Before the race was restarted for an oil spill, Alex Marquez and his brother Marc both crashed while leading, forcing him to retire on lap 12 due to a technical issue with his bike. Yamaha’s Quartararo then took the lead after the restart.

Bezzecchi became the 11th different winner at Silverstone in the previous 11 races with his first victory coming from the Indian Grand Prix in 2023.

It’s incredible, I thought. For me, this past month has been a really difficult time. Aprilia had faith in me, and we worked really hard, Bezzecchi said.

The team did a fantastic job, they claim. Since my last victory, I had been anticipating a day like this.

Sprint champion Alex Marquez had a flawless launch to take over from Quartararo on the first start, but as he leant into turn one, he lost control and crashed, allowing Marc Marquez to take the lead.

However, the Marquez brothers earned a break when the oil spill occurred in the final sector following the collision and crash of Franco Morbidelli and Aleix Espargaro, but the elder Marquez also lost control and crashed out of the lead.

Race resuming

All riders were permitted to restart because three laps had not yet been completed. Quartararo took Francesco Bagnaia’s place in the lead and led the race until the final lap when Quartararo took the lead.

As Marc Marquez and Bagnaia fell into ninth and tenth place on lap three of the Copse corner, both factory Ducatis suffered a wide crash.

The race ended with Bagnaia colliding with Bezzecchi, who was trailing Jack Miller of Pramac Racing, on the following lap.

As he methodically maneuvered his way through the pack, Marc Marquez was a man on a mission behind them, and by lap 11 he was in fourth place.

When Quartararo called him about a problem with his bike, Yamaha lost almost five seconds of lead because his ride-height device had failed, sparking his desire to win the chequered flag.

As the shell-shocked Yamaha garage watched, Quartararo stopped by the side of the track, hopped off, and sank to his knees with his head on the tarmac.

The first Honda rider to earn back-to-back podiums since Marc Marquez in 2021, “I even thought about winning when I saw Fabio with a technical problem.”

However, Bezzecchi held on to win while Franco Morbidelli and Marc Marquez alternated places on the final lap before placing third in a photo finish.

Marc Marquez, who now leads his brother by 24 points in the world championship, yelled, “Today we were lucky because I made a mistake.

According to Johns Hopkins University Professor Vali Nasr, Iran is as desperate as the United States to unite because of its troubled economy and restless population.

Nasr told Steve Clemons that Iran is eager to grow economically and that US President Donald Trump’s administration is working toward an arms control deal. After 40 or so years, both have arrived at a point where they need to alter their relationship’s course.

A new parliament will be elected in Suriname, which is currently in the midst of a much-anticipated oil boom. The new parliament will then choose the next president of South America.

There has already been little discussion about what the next government, which will be in power until 2030, should do with money earned from the Gran Morgu offshore oil and gas project. Sunday’s elections have already been marred by fraud allegations. In 2028, production will start.

According to experts, Suriname, a nation plagued by poverty and rife with inflation, is projected to earn billions of dollars from recently discovered offshore crude deposits in the next ten years or two.

Suriname’s first significant offshore endeavor is led by TotalEnergies. The former Dutch colony discovered reserves that might make it more competitive with nearby Guyana, whose economy increased by 43.6 percent last year, as a major producer.

This week, President Chan Santokhi told the AFP news agency, “It will be a significant amount of income for the country.” “We are now able to do more for our people,” he said, “so that everyone can contribute to the nation’s growth.”

Pollsters are predicting the outcome because Santokhi is constitutionally eligible for a second term but there is no single party with a clear lead in the elections.

The party with the most seats will likely form a coalition with smaller parties to form Suriname’s next government, but negotiations and appointing a new president are anticipated to take place in a few weeks.

The elections are being held by 14 different political parties, including Desi Bouterse, a former coup leader and president, and Santokhi’s centrist Progressive Reform Party, a former president.

The center-left General Liberation and Development Party of Vice President Ronnie Brunswijk, a former rebel who fought insurgency in the 1980s, is also running.

By late Sunday, preliminary results should be available.

Suriname, a diverse nation made up of people from India, Indonesia, China, the Netherlands, indigenous groups, and enslaved Africans, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in November.

It has become one of the first Latin American nations to join the Asian giant’s Belt and Road infrastructure drive since its independence, and it has grown closer to China since then.

In March, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a stopover in Suriname as part of a regional tour to combat China’s growing influence there.

One of the few nations in the world with a negative carbon footprint is India, where over 90% of the country is covered in forests.

Santokhi argued that Suriname’s situation is not in danger and that Suriname could use its oil windfall to “transition to the green energy we needed, as well as knowing that fossil fuel resources are insufficient.”