2007 Turkish motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2007 Turkish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2007 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 20–22 April 2007 at the Istanbul Park circuit.

  2007 Turkish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 18 races in the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	22 April 2007
Official name	Grand Prix of Turkey
Location	Istanbul Park
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.338 km (3.317 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:52.795 Fastest lap Rider Chris Vermeulen Time 1:54.026 Podium First Casey Stoner Second Toni Elías Third Loris Capirossi
250 cc
Pole position Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:57.473 Fastest lap Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:57.815 Podium First Andrea Dovizioso Second Jorge Lorenzo Third Álvaro Bautista
125 cc
Pole position Rider Mattia Pasini Time 2:04.722 Fastest lap Rider Raffaele De Rosa Time 2:05.217 Podium First Simone Corsi Second Joan Olivé Third Tomoyoshi Koyama

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	22	42:02.850	4	25
2	24	Toni Elías	Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+6.207	10	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	22	+8.102	5	16
4	4	Alex Barros	Pramac d'Antin	Ducati	22	+8.135	13	13
5	33	Marco Melandri	Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+8.289	14	11
6	21	John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	22	+10.186	7	10
7	1	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	+10.239	6	9
8	14	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	22	+14.734	9	8
9	66	Alex Hofmann	Pramac d'Antin	Ducati	22	+16.042	17	7
10	46	Valentino Rossi	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	22	+18.999	1	6
11	71	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	22	+26.249	9	5
12	7	Carlos Checa	Honda LCR	Honda	22	+29.546	16	4
13	56	Shinya Nakano	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	22	+36.922	12	3
14	6	Makoto Tamada	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+38.540	15	2
15	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+39.337	19	1
16	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	KR212V	22	+1:09.336	18
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	0	Accident	11
Ret	5	Colin Edwards	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	0	Accident	2
Ret	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	0	Accident	3
Sources:

250cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	20	39:31.153	1	25
2	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	20	+0.103	2	20
3	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	20	+0.318	3	16
4	3	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	20	+4.894	4	13
5	12	Thomas Lüthi	Aprilia	20	+19.755	6	11
6	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	20	+22.946	7	10
7	60	Julián Simón	Honda	20	+23.283	8	9
8	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	20	+47.678	10	8
9	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	20	+58.482	5	7
10	32	Fabrizio Lai	Aprilia	20	+58.734	14	6
11	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	20	+1:08.588	15	5
12	17	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	20	+1:09.032	24	4
13	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	20	+1:10.005	19	3
14	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	20	+1:14.509	18	2
15	8	Ratthapark Wilairot	Honda	20	+1:17.732	17	1
16	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	20	+1:28.469	12
17	50	Eugene Laverty	Honda	20	+1:49.828	21
Ret	10	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	8	Accident	22
Ret	9	Arturo Tizón	Aprilia	8	Retirement	20
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	6	Retirement	16
Ret	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	4	Retirement	9
Ret	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	2	Accident	23
Ret	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	1	Accident	13
Ret	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	1	Retirement	11
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT

125cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	19	40:03.557	3	25
2	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	19	+0.098	7	20
3	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	KTM	19	+1.943	6	16
4	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	19	+2.191	11	13
5	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	19	+2.646	4	11
6	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	19	+2.939	5	10
7	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	19	+3.119	14	9
8	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	19	+3.120	13	8
9	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	19	+10.353	17	7
10	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	19	+10.842	2	6
11	44	Pol Espargaró	Aprilia	19	+14.446	18	5
12	60	Michael Ranseder	Derbi	19	+15.421	8	4
13	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	19	+15.665	12	3
14	12	Esteve Rabat	Honda	19	+15.870	21	2
15	34	Randy Krummenacher	KTM	19	+15.974	16	1
16	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	19	+16.136	9
17	27	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	19	+24.203	22
18	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	19	+33.668	20
19	15	Federico Sandi	Aprilia	19	+34.531	23
20	37	Joey Litjens	Honda	19	+45.615	24
21	54	Kev Coghlan	Honda	19	+45.630	27
22	95	Robert Mureșan	Derbi	19	+46.162	28
23	99	Danny Webb	Honda	19	+49.852	30
24	77	Dominique Aegerter	Aprilia	19	+51.982	29
25	51	Stevie Bonsey	KTM	19	+1:11.252	25
26	56	Hugo van den Berg	Aprilia	19	+1:55.696	31
27	41	Tobias Siegert	Aprilia	18	+1 lap	34
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	18	Retirement	1
Ret	40	Alen Győrfi	Aprilia	17	Retirement	33
Ret	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	17	Retirement	15
Ret	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	13	Retirement	26
Ret	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	11	Accident	19
Ret	13	Dino Lombardi	Honda	9	Retirement	32
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	6	Accident	10
DNQ	39	Nikolett Kovács	Honda		Did not qualify
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Casey Stoner	61
2	Valentino Rossi	51
3	Dani Pedrosa	36
4	Toni Elías	35
5	Marco Melandri	30

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Ducati	61
2	Honda	56
3	Yamaha	51
4	Suzuki	30
5	Kawasaki	15

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