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Race 11 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 19 August 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix [1] [2] [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2012 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix (formally the 2012 Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix) [4] was the eleventh round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held on 19 August 2012 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana.
After being absent from the United States Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, the Moto2 and Moto3 classes returned to competition at Indianapolis. [5]
Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | 46:39.631 | 1 | 25 |
2 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 28 | +10.823 | 2 | 20 |
3 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +17.310 | 3 | 16 |
4 | 1 | Casey Stoner | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +19.803 | 6 | 13 |
5 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 28 | +22.556 | 8 | 11 |
6 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 28 | +30.072 | 5 | 10 |
7 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Ducati Team | Ducati | 28 | +57.614 | 10 | 9 |
8 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Cardion AB Motoracing | Ducati | 28 | +1:08.442 | 13 | 8 |
9 | 68 | Yonny Hernández | Avintia Blusens | BQR | 28 | +1:11.106 | 12 | 7 |
10 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 28 | +1:14.079 | 11 | 6 |
11 | 24 | Toni Elías | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 28 | +1:26.305 | 16 | 5 |
12 | 22 | Iván Silva | Avintia Blusens | BQR | 28 | +1:40.274 | 20 | 4 |
13 | 5 | Colin Edwards | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | Suter | 27 | +1 lap | 19 | 3 |
14 | 15 | Steve Rapp | Attack Performance | APR | 27 | +1 lap | 21 | 2 |
15 | 77 | James Ellison | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART | 27 | +1 lap [6] | 17 | 1 |
16 | 20 | Aaron Yates | GPTech | BCL | 27 | +1 lap | 22 | |
Ret | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 9 | Accident | 7 | |
Ret | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 8 | Retirement | 9 | |
Ret | 11 | Ben Spies | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 6 | Retirement | 4 | |
Ret | 51 | Michele Pirro | San Carlo Honda Gresini | FTR | 1 | Retirement | 15 | |
Ret | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Speed Master | ART | 0 | Accident | 14 | |
Ret | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda | 0 | Retirement | 18 | |
DNS | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | Injury | |||
WD | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | Injury | |||
Sources: [7] [8] [9] |
Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Suter | 26 | 45:13.763 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 40 | Pol Espargaró | Kalex | 26 | +5.855 | 1 | 20 |
3 | 60 | Julián Simón | Suter | 26 | +9.394 | 4 | 16 |
4 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 26 | +15.549 | 8 | 13 |
5 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Suter | 26 | +16.138 | 9 | 11 |
6 | 45 | Scott Redding | Kalex | 26 | +16.805 | 6 | 10 |
7 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 26 | +21.359 | 5 | 9 |
8 | 3 | Simone Corsi | FTR | 26 | +21.368 | 12 | 8 |
9 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Speed Up | 26 | +25.873 | 3 | 7 |
10 | 71 | Claudio Corti | Kalex | 26 | +26.471 | 7 | 6 |
11 | 80 | Esteve Rabat | Kalex | 26 | +26.916 | 15 | 5 |
12 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Motobi | 26 | +27.274 | 13 | 4 |
13 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Suter | 26 | +31.122 | 10 | 3 |
14 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | AJR | 26 | +35.928 | 17 | 2 |
15 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Tech 3 | 26 | +39.240 | 14 | 1 |
16 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 26 | +42.507 | 11 | |
17 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Kalex | 26 | +45.629 | 26 | |
18 | 81 | Jordi Torres | Suter | 26 | +45.753 | 23 | |
19 | 8 | Gino Rea | Suter | 26 | +51.567 | 19 | |
20 | 76 | Max Neukirchner | Kalex | 26 | +52.106 | 28 | |
21 | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 26 | +56.150 | 27 | |
22 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Bimota | 26 | +1:11.069 | 29 | |
23 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Suter | 26 | +1:11.765 | 25 | |
24 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | MZ-RE Honda | 26 | +1:20.042 | 20 | |
25 | 57 | Eric Granado | Motobi | 26 | +1:42.924 | 31 | |
26 | 10 | Marco Colandrea | FTR | 26 | +1:43.184 | 32 | |
27 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | FTR | 23 | +3 laps | 21 | |
DSQ | 95 | Anthony West | Speed Up | 26 | (+35.701) [10] | 24 | |
Ret | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Suter | 20 | Retirement | 22 | |
Ret | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Tech 3 | 17 | Accident | 18 | |
Ret | 15 | Alex de Angelis | FTR | 17 | Accident | 16 | |
Ret | 22 | Alessandro Andreozzi | Speed Up | 10 | Accident | 30 | |
Ret | 82 | Elena Rosell | Moriwaki | 7 | Accident | 33 | |
Source: [11] |
Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 39 | Luis Salom | Kalex KTM | 23 | 42:14.300 | 4 | 25 |
2 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | KTM | 23 | +0.056 | 1 | 20 |
3 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex KTM | 23 | +2.940 | 15 | 16 |
4 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Suter Honda | 23 | +3.067 | 11 | 13 |
5 | 5 | Romano Fenati | FTR Honda | 23 | +3.664 | 8 | 11 |
6 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 23 | +7.663 | 5 | 10 |
7 | 42 | Álex Rins | Suter Honda | 23 | +7.697 | 6 | 9 |
8 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | FTR Honda | 23 | +11.203 | 10 | 8 |
9 | 23 | Alberto Moncayo | FTR Honda | 23 | +11.242 | 9 | 7 |
10 | 10 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 23 | +13.163 | 12 | 6 |
11 | 61 | Arthur Sissis | KTM | 23 | +23.362 | 22 | 5 |
12 | 52 | Danny Kent | KTM | 23 | +24.364 | 2 | 4 |
13 | 96 | Louis Rossi | FTR Honda | 23 | +25.001 | 14 | 3 |
14 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | FTR Honda | 23 | +31.211 | 16 | 2 |
15 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | FTR Honda | 23 | +34.179 | 13 | 1 |
16 | 9 | Toni Finsterbusch | Honda | 23 | +1:12.945 | 27 | |
17 | 30 | Giulian Pedone | Suter Honda | 23 | +1:14.428 | 26 | |
18 | 51 | Kenta Fujii | TSR Honda | 23 | +1:14.709 | 29 | |
19 | 80 | Armando Pontone | Ioda | 23 | +1:15.326 | 28 | |
20 | 20 | Riccardo Moretti | Mahindra | 22 | +1 lap | 30 | |
Ret | 25 | Maverick Viñales | FTR Honda | 22 | Accident | 3 | |
Ret | 89 | Alan Techer | TSR Honda | 15 | Accident | 18 | |
Ret | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | FTR Honda | 11 | Accident | 7 | |
Ret | 3 | Luigi Morciano | Ioda | 10 | Retirement | 25 | |
Ret | 12 | Álex Márquez | Suter Honda | 6 | Accident | 19 | |
Ret | 41 | Brad Binder | Kalex KTM | 3 | Accident | 17 | |
Ret | 26 | Adrián Martín | FTR Honda | 0 | Accident | 20 | |
Ret | 53 | Jasper Iwema | FGR Honda | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
Ret | 27 | Niccolò Antonelli | FTR Honda | 0 | Accident | 24 | |
DSQ | 31 | Niklas Ajo | KTM | 4 | Disqualified | 23 | |
DNS | 8 | Jack Miller | Honda | Injury | |||
DNS | 99 | Danny Webb | Mahindra | Injury | |||
DNS | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Kalex KTM | Injury | |||
Source: [12] |
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded. [13]
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