2012 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix

  2012 Indianapolis Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	August 19, 2012
Official name	Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix [1] [2] [3]
Location	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.216 km (2.620 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:38.813 Fastest lap Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:39.088 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Honda Second Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Third Andrea Dovizioso Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position Rider Pol Espargaró Kalex Time 1:42.602 Fastest lap Rider Marc Márquez Suter Time 1:43.304 Podium First Marc Márquez Suter Second Pol Espargaró Kalex Third Julián Simón Suter
Moto3
Pole position Rider Sandro Cortese KTM Time 1:48.545 Fastest lap Rider Romano Fenati FTR Honda Time 1:48.648 Podium First Luis Salom Kalex KTM Second Sandro Cortese KTM Third Jonas Folger Kalex KTM

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 August 19, 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]

Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso, celebrating on the podium after finishing in second, first and third place at the MotoGP race.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
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]

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
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]

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
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]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded. ^[13]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Jorge Lorenzo 225 2 Dani Pedrosa 207 3 Casey Stoner 186 4 Andrea Dovizioso 137 5 Cal Crutchlow 106

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 246 2 Yamaha 241 3 Ducati 115 4 ART 54 5 BQR 20

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

References

1. "2012 Indianapolis MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. June 13, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2012 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Indianapolis Motor Speedway - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
4. "FIM announce changes to 2012 MotoGP calendar". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. December 14, 2011. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
5. ""The Corkscrew" awaits as MotoGP descends on Laguna Seca". motogp.com. Dorna Sports. July 23, 2012. Retrieved July 27, 2012. This will be the 14th time the MotoGP field is set to race at the track, which is the shortest on the Grand Prix calendar [...] the Moto2 and Moto3 classes will not be racing at this weekend's event.
6. James Ellison was demoted 1 position after the race for shortcutting the track.
7. "2012 Indianapolis MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". June 13, 2017.
8. "motogp.com · RED BULL INDIANAPOLIS GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2012". www.motogp.com.
9. "Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. August 19, 2012.
10. "Doping – Decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of rider Anthony West" (PDF). v2-fim-live.com. Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. November 28, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015. [...] all the sporting results obtained by Anthony West from 20 May 2012 up to the expiry of the period of ineligibility (i.e. 19 October 2013) will be invalidated.
11. "Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix – Moto2 – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. August 19, 2012.
12. "Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix – Moto3 – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. August 19, 2012.
13. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2012. Retrieved August 25, 2019.

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