2008 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix
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Race 17 of 18 races in the 2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 19 October 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Polini Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Sepang International Circuit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2008 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the penultimate round of the 2008 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 17–19 October 2008 at the Sepang International Circuit.
MotoGP classification
Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
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1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 21 | 43:06.007 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 2 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 21 | +4.008 | 1 | 20 |
3 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 21 | +8.536 | 6 | 16 |
4 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Honda | 21 | +8.858 | 4 | 13 |
5 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Honda | 21 | +10.583 | 15 | 11 |
6 | 1 | Casey Stoner | Ducati | 21 | +13.640 | 7 | 10 |
7 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Suzuki | 21 | +15.936 | 8 | 9 |
8 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Yamaha | 21 | +18.802 | 5 | 8 |
9 | 7 | Chris Vermeulen | Suzuki | 21 | +23.174 | 11 | 7 |
10 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Honda | 21 | +25.516 | 9 | 6 |
11 | 21 | John Hopkins | Kawasaki | 21 | +27.609 | 10 | 5 |
12 | 13 | Anthony West | Kawasaki | 21 | +41.399 | 13 | 4 |
13 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Ducati | 21 | +45.617 | 16 | 3 |
14 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Honda | 21 | +49.003 | 17 | 2 |
15 | 24 | Toni Elias | Ducati | 21 | +59.139 | 19 | 1 |
16 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Ducati | 21 | +1:03.328 | 14 | |
17 | 9 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki | 21 | +1:48.363 | 18 | |
Ret | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 12 | Accident | 3 | |
Ret | 52 | James Toseland | Yamaha | 2 | Accident | 12 |
250 cc classification
Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
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1 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 20 | 42:56.428 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | KTM | 20 | +2.586 | 1 | 20 |
3 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 20 | +8.343 | 3 | 16 |
4 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 20 | +11.032 | 8 | 13 |
5 | 41 | Aleix Espargaro | Aprilia | 20 | +13.846 | 6 | 11 |
6 | 6 | Alex Debon | Aprilia | 20 | +14.274 | 9 | 10 |
7 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Gilera | 20 | +15.101 | 15 | 9 |
8 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Honda | 20 | +16.987 | 5 | 8 |
9 | 12 | Thomas Luthi | Aprilia | 20 | +25.356 | 14 | 7 |
10 | 52 | Lukas Pesek | Aprilia | 20 | +26.846 | 13 | 6 |
11 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Gilera | 20 | +49.907 | 12 | 5 |
12 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 20 | +50.088 | 18 | 4 |
13 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 20 | +1:05.816 | 17 | 3 |
14 | 35 | Simone Grotzkyj | Gilera | 20 | +1:15.544 | 19 | 2 |
15 | 10 | Imre Toth | Aprilia | 20 | +1:19.905 | 16 | 1 |
16 | 43 | Manuel Hernandez | Aprilia | 20 | +1:35.890 | 21 | |
17 | 92 | Daniel Arcas | Honda | 20 | +2:00.717 | 22 | |
18 | 45 | Doni Tata Pradita | Yamaha | 20 | +2:28.842 | 20 | |
Ret | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 15 | Retirement | 11 | |
Ret | 60 | Julian Simon | KTM | 11 | Retirement | 7 | |
Ret | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 5 | Retirement | 4 | |
Ret | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 10 |
125 cc classification
Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
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1 | 1 | Gábor Talmácsi | Aprilia | 19 | 43:00.716 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Aprilia | 19 | +3.416 | 13 | 20 |
3 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 19 | +6.896 | 8 | 16 |
4 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Aprilia | 19 | +6.925 | 18 | 13 |
5 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Derbi | 19 | +7.115 | 9 | 11 |
6 | 44 | Pol Espargaro | Derbi | 19 | +15.122 | 4 | 10 |
7 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Derbi | 19 | +21.805 | 6 | 9 |
8 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Derbi | 19 | +21.869 | 22 | 8 |
9 | 18 | Nicolas Terol | Aprilia | 19 | +21.958 | 12 | 7 |
10 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 19 | +23.615 | 1 | 6 |
11 | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | KTM | 19 | +23.651 | 7 | 5 |
12 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 19 | +35.224 | 5 | 4 |
13 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | KTM | 19 | +40.502 | 20 | 3 |
14 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | KTM | 19 | +51.404 | 17 | 2 |
15 | 26 | Adrián Martín | Aprilia | 19 | +55.726 | 27 | 1 |
16 | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Loncin | 19 | +56.537 | 23 | |
17 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Aprilia | 19 | +1:07.140 | 29 | |
18 | 72 | Marco Ravaioli | Aprilia | 19 | +1:07.573 | 24 | |
19 | 34 | Randy Krummenacher | KTM | 19 | +1:07.741 | 32 | |
20 | 21 | Robin Lasser | Aprilia | 19 | +1:08.849 | 28 | |
21 | 48 | Bastien Chesaux | Aprilia | 19 | +1:46.609 | 34 | |
22 | 95 | Robert Muresan | Aprilia | 18 | +1 Lap | 31 | |
Ret | 12 | Esteve Rabat | KTM | 17 | Retirement | 25 | |
Ret | 51 | Steve Bonsey | Aprilia | 12 | Retirement | 15 | |
Ret | 17 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 10 | |
Ret | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 11 | |
Ret | 55 | Hugo Van Den Berg | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 30 | |
Ret | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | KTM | 8 | Retirement | 19 | |
Ret | 99 | Danny Webb | Aprilia | 8 | Retirement | 3 | |
Ret | 28 | Enrique Jerez | KTM | 8 | Retirement | 33 | |
Ret | 5 | Alexis Masbou | Loncin | 6 | Retirement | 14 | |
Ret | 73 | Takaaki Nakagami | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
DNS | 7 | Efren Vazquez | Aprilia | Not started | 16 | ||
DNS | 36 | Cyril Carrillo | Honda | Not started | 26 | ||
DNQ | 93 | Marc Márquez | KTM |
References
- "MotoGP official website". Retrieved 2008-10-19.