2016 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
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Race 15 of 18 races in the 2016 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 16 October 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Motul Grand Prix of Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2016 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 16 October 2016. In the MotoGP class, both factory Yamaha riders crashed out of the race, thus marking their first double retirement since the 2011 British Grand Prix.
Classification
MotoGP
With Andrea Iannone still recovering from the injuries sustained at Misano, he was replaced in the factory Ducati team by Héctor Barberá. Australian Superbike rider Mike Jones made his MotoGP debut filling in for Barbera at Avintia Racing.[1]
Dani Pedrosa suffered a broken collarbone in a crash during Friday practice and was replaced by Honda test rider Hiroshi Aoyama for the rest of the weekend.[2]
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda | 24 | 42:34.610 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | 24 | +2.992 | 4 | 20 |
3 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Suzuki | 24 | +4.104 | 7 | 16 |
4 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Suzuki | 24 | +4.726 | 6 | 13 |
5 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda | 24 | +15.049 | 5 | 11 |
6 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Yamaha | 24 | +19.654 | 9 | 10 |
7 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 24 | +23.032 | 12 | 9 |
8 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati | 24 | +28.555 | 10 | 8 |
9 | 45 | Scott Redding | Ducati | 24 | +28.802 | 11 | 7 |
10 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia | 24 | +32.330 | 13 | 6 |
11 | 21 | Katsuyuki Nakasuga | Yamaha | 24 | +42.845 | 16 | 5 |
12 | 68 | Yonny Hernández | Ducati | 24 | +52.219 | 17 | 4 |
13 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Yamaha | 24 | +53.783 | 15 | 3 |
14 | 53 | Esteve Rabat | Honda | 24 | +54.760 | 18 | 2 |
15 | 73 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 24 | +1:00.155 | 22 | 1 |
16 | 76 | Loris Baz | Ducati | 24 | +1:04.440 | 20 | |
17 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Ducati | 24 | +1:42.966 | 8 | |
18 | 7 | Mike Jones | Ducati | 23 | +1 lap | 21 | |
Ret | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 19 | Accident | 3 | |
Ret | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 6 | Accident | 1 | |
Ret | 43 | Jack Miller | Honda | 6 | Accident | 14 | |
Ret | 50 | Eugene Laverty | Ducati | 2 | Accident | 19 | |
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT |
Moto2
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Kalex | 23 | 42:45.854 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Kalex | 23 | +0.386 | 1 | 20 |
3 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Kalex | 23 | +5.863 | 3 | 16 |
4 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 23 | +6.090 | 7 | 13 |
5 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kalex | 23 | +16.246 | 5 | 11 |
6 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Speed Up | 23 | +20.404 | 13 | 10 |
7 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 23 | +20.683 | 10 | 9 |
8 | 60 | Julián Simón | Speed Up | 23 | +20.760 | 16 | 8 |
9 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 23 | +24.394 | 11 | 7 |
10 | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Speed Up | 23 | +27.113 | 17 | 6 |
11 | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Tech 3 | 23 | +30.158 | 18 | 5 |
12 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 23 | +32.283 | 26 | 4 |
13 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Kalex | 23 | +32.391 | 12 | 3 |
14 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 23 | +35.348 | 24 | 2 |
15 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Tech 3 | 23 | +35.486 | 20 | 1 |
16 | 57 | Edgar Pons | Kalex | 23 | +39.558 | 21 | |
17 | 2 | Jesko Raffin | Kalex | 23 | +39.690 | 19 | |
18 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Kalex | 23 | +45.258 | 25 | |
19 | 87 | Remy Gardner | Kalex | 23 | +47.910 | 23 | |
20 | 40 | Álex Rins | Kalex | 23 | +1:04.723 | 22 | |
21 | 63 | Naomichi Uramoto | Kalex | 23 | +1:05.916 | 29 | |
22 | 84 | Taro Sekiguchi | TSR | 23 | +1:26.636 | 30 | |
Ret | 27 | Iker Lecuona | Kalex | 14 | Retirement | 28 | |
Ret | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 13 | Retirement | 6 | |
Ret | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 10 | Retirement | 14 | |
Ret | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 7 | Retirement | 8 | |
Ret | 52 | Danny Kent | Kalex | 7 | Retirement | 15 | |
Ret | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex | 4 | Accident | 9 | |
Ret | 22 | Sam Lowes | Kalex | 1 | Accident | 4 | |
Ret | 70 | Robin Mulhauser | Kalex | 1 | Accident | 27 | |
DNS | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Kalex | Did not start | |||
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT |
Moto3
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 20 | 39:24.273 | 3 | 25 |
2 | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 20 | +0.017 | 2 | 20 |
3 | 8 | Nicolò Bulega | KTM | 20 | +4.002 | 5 | 16 |
4 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 20 | +5.119 | 10 | 13 |
5 | 4 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 20 | +6.288 | 18 | 11 |
6 | 21 | Francesco Bagnaia | Mahindra | 20 | +7.739 | 12 | 10 |
7 | 11 | Livio Loi | Honda | 20 | +7.749 | 15 | 9 |
8 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | KTM | 20 | +8.344 | 8 | 8 |
9 | 36 | Joan Mir | KTM | 20 | +8.880 | 14 | 7 |
10 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 20 | +9.037 | 7 | 6 |
11 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | KTM | 20 | +12.332 | 6 | 5 |
12 | 7 | Adam Norrodin | Honda | 20 | +13.525 | 9 | 4 |
13 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | Honda | 20 | +18.818 | 21 | 3 |
14 | 12 | Albert Arenas | Peugeot | 20 | +21.263 | 13 | 2 |
15 | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Mahindra | 20 | +21.291 | 25 | 1 |
16 | 95 | Jules Danilo | Honda | 20 | +21.727 | 24 | |
17 | 42 | Marcos Ramírez | Mahindra | 20 | +34.475 | 26 | |
18 | 64 | Bo Bendsneyder | KTM | 20 | +39.950 | 27 | |
19 | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi | Honda | 20 | +40.177 | 22 | |
20 | 3 | Fabio Spiranelli | Mahindra | 20 | +46.804 | 32 | |
21 | 77 | Lorenzo Petrarca | Mahindra | 20 | +49.085 | 31 | |
22 | 40 | Darryn Binder | Mahindra | 20 | +52.570 | 28 | |
23 | 6 | María Herrera | KTM | 20 | +52.682 | 30 | |
24 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 20 | +1:16.774 | 1 | |
25 | 58 | Juan Francisco Guevara | KTM | 20 | +1:22.102 | 20 | |
26 | 13 | Shizuka Okazaki | Honda | 20 | +1:51.623 | 34 | |
DSQ | 76 | Hiroki Ono | Honda | 20 | (+2.654)[N 2] | 4 | |
Ret | 88 | Jorge Martín | Mahindra | 10 | Retirement | 23 | |
Ret | 44 | Arón Canet | Honda | 9 | Accident | 17 | |
Ret | 55 | Andrea Locatelli | KTM | 4 | Accident | 29 | |
Ret | 43 | Stefano Valtulini | Mahindra | 3 | Accident | 33 | |
Ret | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Honda | 0 | Accident | 11 | |
Ret | 17 | John McPhee | Peugeot | 0 | Accident | 16 | |
Ret | 19 | Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 0 | Accident | 19 | |
DNS | 15 | Rei Sato | Honda | Did not start | |||
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT |
Notes
- ^ Hiroki Ono, who set the fastest time in qualifying, received a grid penalty which promoted Andrea Migno to the pole position grid slot.
- ^ Disqualified due to a technical infringement.
References
- ^ "Hector Barbera to replace Andrea Iannone at Motegi, Mike Jones in at Avintia". GrandPrixTimes.com. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Aoyama replaces injured Pedrosa for Japan GP". uk.reuters.com. Reuters. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
External links
- "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 25 September 2016.