2014 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2014 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2014 MotoGP season. It was held at the Losail International Circuit in Doha on 23 March 2014.

  2014 Qatar Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 18 races in the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 March 2014
Official name	Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar
Location	Losail International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.380 km (3.343 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:54.507 Fastest lap Rider Álvaro Bautista Honda Time 1:55.575 on lap 4 Podium First Marc Márquez Honda Second Valentino Rossi Yamaha Third Dani Pedrosa Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Esteve Rabat Kalex Time 2:00.081 Fastest lap Rider Maverick Viñales Kalex Time 2:00.168 on lap 9 Podium First Esteve Rabat Kalex Second Mika Kallio Kalex Third Thomas Lüthi Suter
Moto3
Pole position Rider Álex Rins Honda Time 2:05.973 Fastest lap Rider Alexis Masbou Honda Time 2:05.862 on lap 9 Podium First Jack Miller KTM Second Álex Márquez Honda Third Efrén Vázquez Honda

In the MotoGP class, Marc Márquez began his title defence with a victory ahead of Valentino Rossi and teammate Dani Pedrosa. Rossi's teammate, Jorge Lorenzo led at the start but then crashed and had his bike destroyed in the gravel trap.

The MotoGP race also saw the début of the new "Factory" and "Open" classes for each bike. The MSMA prototypes were reclassified as the "Factory" class, and the Claiming Rule Teams sub-category was rebranded as the "Open" class. Bikes in the Open class used the same MotoGP ECU and identical software, and the teams that were in the Factory class were permitted to use their own software.

In the Moto2 race, Esteve Rabat began his title-winning season with a victory ahead of fellow Kalex rider Mika Kallio and Suter rider Thomas Lüthi. The fastest lap was set by Maverick Viñales in his first and only season in the Moto2 class.

The Moto3 race saw Jack Miller take the victory ahead of Spaniards Álex Márquez and Efrén Vázquez. Both Miller and Márquez would eventually fight for the title over the course of the season, with the latter eventually taking the title by two points.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	42:40.561	1	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	22	+0.259	10	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	+3.370	6	16
4	41	Aleix Espargaró	NGM Forward Racing	Forward Yamaha	22	+11.623	9	13
5	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	22	+12.159	4	11
6	35	Cal Crutchlow	Ducati Team	Ducati	22	+28.526	8	10
7	45	Scott Redding	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+32.593	16	9
8	69	Nicky Hayden	Drive M7 Aspar	Honda	22	+32.628	13	8
9	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Forward Racing	Forward Yamaha	22	+39.547	14	7
10	29	Andrea Iannone	Pramac Racing	Ducati	22	+43.360	11	6
11	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Drive M7 Aspar	Honda	22	+46.595	15	5
12	68	Yonny Hernández	Energy T.I. Pramac Racing	Ducati	22	+46.688	17	4
13	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Honda	22	+50.581	18	3
14	9	Danilo Petrucci	IodaRacing Project	ART	22	+1:03.127	20	2
15	23	Broc Parkes	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	22	+1:14.386	21	1
16	70	Michael Laverty	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	22	+1:32.593	23
17	63	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Avintia	22	+1:36.085	22
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	Honda	20	Accident	2
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	18	Accident	3
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	17	Retirement	12
Ret	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	8	Accident	7
Ret	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Racing	Avintia	4	Retirement	19
Ret	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	0	Accident	5
Sources:

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	53	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	20	40:20.963	1	25
2	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	20	+1.059	6	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	20	+3.741	4	16
4	40	Maverick Viñales	Kalex	20	+4.043	14	13
5	3	Simone Corsi	Forward KLX	20	+5.830	10	11
6	22	Sam Lowes	Speed Up	20	+14.170	5	10
7	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	20	+24.943	2	9
8	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	20	+25.196	16	8
9	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	20	+25.322	26	7
10	96	Louis Rossi	Kalex	20	+26.687	20	6
11	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	20	+26.873	15	5
12	88	Ricard Cardús	Tech 3	20	+26.914	18	4
13	4	Randy Krummenacher	Suter	20	+31.671	22	3
14	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	20	+40.588	17	2
15	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	20	+40.695	30	1
16	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	20	+41.810	19
17	54	Mattia Pasini	Forward KLX	20	+44.030	12
18	25	Azlan Shah	Kalex	20	+52.813	28
19	97	Román Ramos	Speed Up	20	+53.563	31
20	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Kalex	20	+1:10.995	32
21	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	TSR	20	+1:11.391	34
22	70	Robin Mulhauser	Suter	20	+1:11.811	35
23	5	Johann Zarco	Caterham Suter	20	+1:52.348	9
24	19	Xavier Siméon	Suter	20	+1:52.446	7
25	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	19	+1 lap	29
DSQ	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	20	Disqualified	3
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Suter	19	Accident	23
Ret	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	15	Retirement	11
Ret	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	15	Retirement	21
Ret	23	Marcel Schrötter	Tech 3	11	Accident	13
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	11	Retirement	25
Ret	98	Mashel Al Naimi	Speed Up	4	Retirement	33
Ret	8	Gino Rea	Suter	2	Retirement	24
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Suter	0	Accident	8
Ret	2	Josh Herrin	Caterham Suter	0	Accident	27
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	8	Jack Miller	KTM	18	38:05.810	3	25
2	12	Álex Márquez	Honda	18	+0.233	2	20
3	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	18	+0.280	15	16
4	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	18	+0.295	11	13
5	42	Álex Rins	Honda	18	+0.369	1	11
6	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	18	+0.586	4	10
7	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	18	+2.109	14	9
8	32	Isaac Viñales	KTM	18	+2.161	5	8
9	23	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM	18	+8.153	9	7
10	21	Francesco Bagnaia	KTM	18	+8.173	10	6
11	17	John McPhee	Honda	18	+8.195	7	5
12	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	18	+8.219	8	4
13	52	Danny Kent	Husqvarna	18	+11.269	6	3
14	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	18	+11.292	19	2
15	41	Brad Binder	Mahindra	18	+11.322	17	1
16	33	Enea Bastianini	KTM	18	+22.159	21
17	11	Livio Loi	Kalex KTM	18	+22.202	20
18	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Honda	18	+36.686	23
19	9	Scott Deroue	Kalex KTM	18	+36.691	18
20	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	18	+36.755	22
21	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	18	+37.858	28
22	43	Luca Grünwald	Kalex KTM	18	+37.876	24
23	55	Andrea Locatelli	Mahindra	18	+45.501	30
24	22	Ana Carrasco	Kalex KTM	18	+45.650	25
25	51	Bryan Schouten	Mahindra	18	+1:08.694	27
26	31	Niklas Ajo	Husqvarna	17	+1 lap	16
Ret	95	Jules Danilo	Mahindra	17	Accident	31
Ret	3	Matteo Ferrari	Mahindra	14	Retirement	26
Ret	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	Kalex KTM	6	Accident	13
Ret	4	Gabriel Ramos	Kalex KTM	6	Retirement	32
Ret	57	Eric Granado	KTM	2	Retirement	12
Ret	38	Hafiq Azmi	KTM	0	Accident	29
DNS	61	Arthur Sissis	Mahindra		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Marc Márquez	25
2	Valentino Rossi	20
3	Dani Pedrosa	16
4	Aleix Espargaró	13
5	Andrea Dovizioso	11

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	25
2	Yamaha	20
3	Forward Yamaha	13
4	Ducati	11
5	ART	2

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