2013 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix

2013 Qatar Grand Prix
Race details
Race 1 of 18 races in the; 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	7 April 2013
Official name	Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar
Location	Losail International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.380 km (3.343 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo
Time	1:54.714
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez
Time	1:55.445 on lap 3
Podium
First	Jorge Lorenzo
Second	Valentino Rossi
Third	Marc Márquez
Moto2
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Pol Espargaró
Time	2:00.882
Fastest lap
Rider	Pol Espargaró
Time	2:00.931 on lap 13
Podium
First	Pol Espargaró
Second	Scott Redding
Third	Takaaki Nakagami
Moto3
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Luis Salom
Time	2:07.229
Fastest lap
Rider	Jonas Folger
Time	2:06.839 on lap 6
Podium
First	Luis Salom
Second	Maverick Viñales
Third	Álex Rins

The 2013 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Losail International Circuit near Doha in Qatar on 7 April 2013.

This race was both the first MotoGP start and podium for 8-time world champion Marc Márquez.

Classification edit

MotoGP edit

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	22	42:39.802	1	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	22	+5.990	7	20
3	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	+6.201	6	16
4	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	+9.473	3	13
5	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+18.764	2	11
6	19	Álvaro Bautista	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+22.148	8	10
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	22	+24.355	4	9
8	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	22	+24.920	11	8
9	29	Andrea Iannone	Energy T.I. Pramac Racing	Ducati	22	+37.124	10	7
10	11	Ben Spies	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	22	+44.908	13	6
11	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	22	+49.809	12	5
12	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	22	+56.495	14	4
13	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Blusens	FTR	22	+1:09.599	22	3
14	68	Yonny Hernández	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	22	+1:10.742	16	2
15	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Avintia Blusens	FTR	22	+1:13.600	17	1
16	71	Claudio Corti	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	22	+1:29.444	21
17	70	Michael Laverty	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	22	+1:34.341	24
18	52	Lukáš Pešek	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	22	+1:34.683	15
Ret	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	15	Retirement	19
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	12	Retirement	20
Ret	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	8	Accident	5
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	4	Accident	9
Ret	67	Bryan Staring	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	FTR Honda	1	Accident	23
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	ART	0	Accident	18
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Moto2 edit

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	20	40:31.782	1	25
2	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	20	+0.844	4	20
3	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	20	+12.098	2	16
4	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	20	+18.910	5	13
5	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	20	+18.933	3	11
6	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	20	+19.018	6	10
7	3	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	20	+19.230	11	9
8	15	Alex de Angelis	Speed Up	20	+19.452	12	8
9	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	20	+20.219	8	7
10	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	20	+20.972	17	6
11	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	20	+21.674	16	5
12	5	Johann Zarco	Suter	20	+22.084	14	4
13	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	20	+22.093	9	3
14	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	20	+22.496	7	2
15	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	20	+36.677	20	1
16	63	Mike Di Meglio	Motobi	20	+36.697	10
17	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	20	+41.857	13
18	52	Danny Kent	Tech 3	20	+45.295	26
19	4	Randy Krummenacher	Suter	20	+47.673	24
20	33	Sergio Gadea	Suter	20	+54.197	32
21	9	Kyle Smith	Kalex	20	+59.245	28
22	44	Steven Odendaal	Speed Up	20	+1:02.713	29
23	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	20	+1:04.294	23
24	7	Doni Tata Pradita	Suter	20	+1:14.017	27
25	17	Alberto Moncayo	Speed Up	20	+1:37.009	31
26	97	Rafid Topan Sucipto	Speed Up	19	+1 lap	30
Ret	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	15	Accident	19
Ret	88	Ricard Cardús	Speed Up	8	Accident	18
Ret	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Up	8	Retirement	25
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	7	(Retirement)^[7]	15
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	3	Accident	21
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	3	Accident	22
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3 edit

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	39	Luis Salom	KTM	18	38:26.859	1	25
2	25	Maverick Viñales	KTM	18	+0.417	2	20
3	42	Álex Rins	KTM	18	+0.423	3	16
4	12	Álex Márquez	KTM	18	+0.701	9	13
5	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	18	+0.916	4	11
6	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	18	+17.489	11	10
7	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	18	+17.566	5	9
8	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	18	+19.355	10	8
9	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	18	+28.966	16	7
10	7	Efrén Vázquez	Mahindra	18	+28.995	8	6
11	99	Danny Webb	Suter Honda	18	+29.440	15	5
12	41	Brad Binder	Suter Honda	18	+29.499	17	4
13	53	Jasper Iwema	Kalex KTM	18	+39.216	18	3
14	10	Alexis Masbou	FTR Honda	18	+39.415	19	2
15	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	18	+39.451	12	1
16	8	Jack Miller	FTR Honda	18	+39.797	21
17	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	18	+50.846	27
18	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Honda	18	+51.093	26
19	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Kalex KTM	18	+51.218	24
20	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	18	+51.266	23
21	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	TSR Honda	18	+51.329	22
22	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Kalex KTM	18	+53.745	7
23	4	Francesco Bagnaia	FTR Honda	18	+54.691	29
24	3	Matteo Ferrari	FTR Honda	18	+54.948	31
25	66	Florian Alt	Kalex KTM	18	+55.236	28
26	57	Eric Granado	Kalex KTM	18	+1:03.601	25
27	29	Hyuga Watanabe	Honda	18	+1:23.040	32
28	77	Lorenzo Baldassarri	FTR Honda	18	+1:23.178	30
Ret	17	John McPhee	FTR Honda	16	Accident	20
Ret	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	7	Retirement	13
Ret	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	2	Accident	6
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	0	Accident	14
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP) edit

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Jorge Lorenzo	25
2	Valentino Rossi	20
3	Marc Márquez	16
4	Dani Pedrosa	13
5	Cal Crutchlow	11

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	25
2	Honda	16
3	Ducati	9
4	ART	5
5	FTR	3

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References edit

^ "2013 Qatar MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "2013 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Losail International Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
^ "2013 Qatar MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
^ "COMMERCIAL BANK GRAND PRIX OF QATAR · MotoGP Race Classification 2013". Motogp.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
^ "COMMERCIAL BANK GRAND PRIX OF QATAR : MotoGP Race Classification after 22 laps = 118.36 km" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
^ "Doping – Decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of rider Anthony West" (PDF). v2-fim-live.com. Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. 28 November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 24 March 2015. [...] all the sporting results obtained by Anthony West from 20 May 2012 up to the expiry of the period of ineligibility (i.e. 19 October 2013) will be invalidated.
^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2013. Retrieved 2019-08-26.

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[1] "2013 Qatar MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2018.

[2] Mitchell, Malcolm. "2013 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.

[3] Mitchell, Malcolm. "Losail International Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 24 May 2018.

[4] "2013 Qatar MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2018.

[5] "COMMERCIAL BANK GRAND PRIX OF QATAR · MotoGP Race Classification 2013". Motogp.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.

[6] "COMMERCIAL BANK GRAND PRIX OF QATAR : MotoGP Race Classification after 22 laps = 118.36 km" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.

[7] "Doping – Decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of rider Anthony West" (PDF). v2-fim-live.com. Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. 28 November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 24 March 2015. [...] all the sporting results obtained by Anthony West from 20 May 2012 up to the expiry of the period of ineligibility (i.e. 19 October 2013) will be invalidated.

[8] "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2013. Retrieved 2019-08-26.

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