2012 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
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Race 2 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 29 April 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Gran Premio bwin de España | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Circuito de Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2012 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 April 2012 at the Circuito de Jerez, located in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.[1] Casey Stoner won the MotoGP race,[2] while Pol Espargaró[3] and Romano Fenati[4] won the Moto2 and Moto3 races respectively.
Classification
MotoGP
Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 1 | Casey Stoner | Honda | 27 | 45:33.897 | 5 | 25 |
2 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 27 | +0.947 | 1 | 20 |
3 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 27 | +2.063 | 2 | 16 |
4 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Yamaha | 27 | +2.465 | 4 | 13 |
5 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Yamaha | 27 | +18.100 | 7 | 11 |
6 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Honda | 27 | +21.395 | 8 | 10 |
7 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | Honda | 27 | +28.637 | 9 | 9 |
8 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati | 27 | +28.869 | 3 | 8 |
9 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Ducati | 27 | +34.852 | 13 | 7 |
10 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Ducati | 27 | +35.103 | 12 | 6 |
11 | 11 | Ben Spies | Yamaha | 27 | +38.041 | 6 | 5 |
12 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | ART-Aprilia | 27 | +1:12.728 | 14 | 4 |
13 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ioda-Aprilia | 27 | +1:18.669 | 18 | 3 |
14 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | ART-Aprilia | 27 | +1:29.142 | 16 | 2 |
15 | 22 | Iván Silva | BQR-Kawasaki | 27 | +1:31.178 | 19 | 1 |
16 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Suter-BMW | 27 | +1:40.577 | 21 | |
17 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ducati | 26 | +1 Lap | 11 | |
Ret | 14 | Randy de Puniet | ART-Aprilia | 25 | Retirement | 10 | |
Ret | 77 | James Ellison | ART-Aprilia | 24 | Retirement | 20 | |
Ret | 51 | Michele Pirro | FTR-Honda | 18 | Retirement | 15 | |
Ret | 68 | Yonny Hernández | BQR-Kawasaki | 0 | Retirement | 17 | |
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT |
Moto2
The race was red-flagged after 17 laps due to rain.[5]
Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 40 | Pol Espargaró | Kalex | 17 | 30:12.879 | 3 | 25 |
2 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Suter | 17 | +0.241 | 1 | 20 |
3 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Suter | 17 | +0.483 | 4 | 16 |
4 | 45 | Scott Redding | Kalex | 17 | +4.414 | 12 | 13 |
5 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 17 | +4.837 | 2 | 11 |
6 | 71 | Claudio Corti | Kalex | 17 | +5.881 | 6 | 10 |
7 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 17 | +6.149 | 5 | 9 |
8 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 17 | +7.097 | 15 | 8 |
9 | 24 | Toni Elías | Suter | 17 | +7.866 | 16 | 7 |
10 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Motobi | 17 | +8.680 | 10 | 6 |
11 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Tech 3 | 17 | +9.382 | 19 | 5 |
12 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Suter | 17 | +9.768 | 11 | 4 |
13 | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Tech 3 | 17 | +10.433 | 17 | 3 |
14 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Speed Up | 17 | +31.366 | 13 | 2 |
15 | 8 | Gino Rea | Moriwaki | 17 | +31.504 | 23 | 1 |
16 | 95 | Anthony West | Moriwaki | 17 | +34.172 | 29 | |
17 | 3 | Simone Corsi | FTR | 17 | +34.450 | 18 | |
18 | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 17 | +36.410 | 26 | |
19 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | AJR | 17 | +36.803 | 20 | |
20 | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | FTR | 17 | +37.449 | 24 | |
21 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Suter | 17 | +39.465 | 22 | |
22 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Kalex | 17 | +45.782 | 9 | |
23 | 60 | Julián Simón | Suter | 17 | +46.163 | 25 | |
24 | 7 | Alexander Lundh | MZ-RE Honda | 17 | +46.251 | 27 | |
25 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Suter | 17 | +59.593 | 21 | |
26 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Moriwaki | 17 | +59.987 | 30 | |
27 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Suter | 17 | +1:01.010 | 28 | |
28 | 80 | Esteve Rabat | Kalex | 16 | +1 Lap | 7 | |
Ret | 76 | Max Neukirchner | Kalex | 12 | Accident | 14 | |
Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Speed Up | 8 | Accident | 8 | |
Ret | 10 | Marco Colandrea | FTR | 6 | Accident | 32 | |
Ret | 82 | Elena Rosell | Moriwaki | 4 | Accident | 31 | |
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT |
Moto3
Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 5 | Romano Fenati | FTR-Honda | 23 | 43:50.885 | 10 | 25 |
2 | 39 | Luis Salom | Kalex-KTM | 23 | +36.139 | 19 | 20 |
3 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | KTM | 23 | +36.895 | 2 | 16 |
4 | 42 | Álex Rins | Suter-Honda | 23 | +37.061 | 1 | 13 |
5 | 10 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 23 | +49.036 | 4 | 11 |
6 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | FTR-Honda | 23 | +55.857 | 9 | 10 |
7 | 23 | Alberto Moncayo | Kalex-KTM | 23 | +57.505 | 20 | 9 |
8 | 27 | Niccolò Antonelli | FTR-Honda | 23 | +1:03.683 | 17 | 8 |
9 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Kalex-KTM | 23 | +1:15.351 | 16 | 7 |
10 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 23 | +1:35.650 | 28 | 6 |
11 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | FTR-Honda | 22 | +1 Lap | 24 | 5 |
12 | 12 | Álex Márquez | Suter-Honda | 22 | +1 Lap | 13 | 4 |
13 | 21 | Iván Moreno | FTR-Honda | 22 | +1 Lap | 23 | 3 |
14 | 89 | Alan Techer | TSR-Honda | 22 | +1 Lap | 34 | 2 |
15 | 30 | Giulian Pedone | Oral | 22 | +1 Lap | 33 | 1 |
16 | 77 | Marcel Schrötter | Mahindra | 22 | +1 Lap | 25 | |
17 | 53 | Jasper Iwema | FGR-Honda | 22 | +1 Lap | 29 | |
Ret | 26 | Adrián Martín | FTR-Honda | 15 | Accident | 14 | |
Ret | 51 | Kenta Fujii | TSR-Honda | 15 | Accident | 22 | |
Ret | 99 | Danny Webb | Mahindra | 14 | Retirement | 21 | |
Ret | 96 | Louis Rossi | FTR-Honda | 9 | Accident | 12 | |
Ret | 32 | Isaac Viñales | FTR-Honda | 6 | Accident | 7 | |
Ret | 28 | Josep Rodríguez | FTR-Honda | 4 | Retirement | 18 | |
Ret | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Suter-Honda | 3 | Accident | 3 | |
Ret | 61 | Arthur Sissis | KTM | 3 | Accident | 8 | |
Ret | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | FTR-Honda | 2 | Accident | 5 | |
Ret | 41 | Brad Binder | Kalex-KTM | 2 | Accident | 26 | |
Ret | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | FTR-Honda | 2 | Collision | 11 | |
Ret | 31 | Niklas Ajo | KTM | 2 | Accident | 27 | |
Ret | 9 | Toni Finsterbusch | MZ-FTR | 2 | Accident | 30 | |
Ret | 3 | Luigi Morciano | Ioda | 2 | Accident | 32 | |
Ret | 8 | Jack Miller | Honda | 0 | Accident | 6 | |
Ret | 52 | Danny Kent | KTM | 0 | Accident | 15 | |
Ret | 15 | Simone Grotzkyj | Oral | 0 | Accident | 31 | |
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT |
References
- ^ "FIM announce changes to 2012 MotoGP calendar". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ "MotoGP: Casey Stoner hangs on to beat Jorge Lorenzo at Jerez". bbc.co.uk. BBC Sport. 29 April 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ Tremayne, Sam (29 April 2012). "Pol Espargaro awarded maiden victory as rain truncates Jerez Moto2 race". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ "Moto3: Fenati breaks Italian drought". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 30 April 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ "Espargaró takes first ever victory in breathtaking Jerez race". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 29 April 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012.