2013 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2013 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 18 races in the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 October 2013
Official name	Tissot Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix [1] [2] [3]
Location	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.764 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Time 1:27.899 Fastest lap Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:28.108 on lap 13 Podium First Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Second Dani Pedrosa Honda Third Valentino Rossi Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position Rider Pol Espargaró Kalex Time 1:32.530 Fastest lap Rider Alex de Angelis Speed Up Time 1:32.814 on lap 13 Podium First Pol Espargaró Kalex Second Thomas Lüthi Suter Third Jordi Torres Suter
Moto3
Pole position Rider Luis Salom KTM Time 1:36.890 Fastest lap Rider Álex Márquez KTM Time 1:37.073 on lap 8 Podium First Álex Rins KTM Second Maverick Viñales KTM Third Luis Salom KTM

The 2013 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Phillip Island on 20 October 2013.

The MotoGP race was originally scheduled to run over 27 laps but was shortened to 19 laps after Bridgestone announced that the safety of its tyres on the newly resurfaced track could not be guaranteed after 10 laps. Riders were required to make a pitstop to swap bikes or change tyres at least once during the race, and no rider was permitted to use the same set of tyres for more than 10 laps. ^[4] Marc Márquez and Bryan Staring were both disqualified for riding an 11-lap stint without pitting. Jorge Lorenzo won the race and closed up the gap to Márquez in the championship to 18 points. ^[5] The Moto2 race distance was also shortened, from 25 to 13 laps. ^[6]

Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi on the podium after finishing second, first and third in the MotoGP race.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	19	29:07.155	1	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	19	+6.936	5	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	19	+12.344	3	16
4	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	19	+12.460	6	13
5	19	Álvaro Bautista	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	Honda	19	+12.513	4	11
6	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	19	+28.263	7	10
7	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	19	+32.953	8	9
8	29	Andrea Iannone	Energy T.I. Pramac Racing	Ducati	19	+35.062	10	8
9	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	19	+35.104	9	7
10	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	19	+37.426	12	6
11	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	19	+46.099	13	5
12	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	19	+48.149	11	4
13	68	Yonny Hernández	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	19	+49.911	15	3
14	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Blusens	FTR	19	+49.998	19	2
15	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	19	+58.718	17	1
16	23	Luca Scassa	Cardion AB Motoracing	ART	19	+58.791	20
17	71	Claudio Corti	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	19	+1:08.105	14
18	70	Michael Laverty	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	19	+1:27.230	18
19	52	Lukáš Pešek	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	19	+1:31.093	22
20	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Avintia Blusens	FTR	18	+1 lap	16
21	50	Damian Cudlin	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	17	+2 laps	23
DSQ	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	14	Disqualified	2
DSQ	67	Bryan Staring	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	FTR Honda	14	Disqualified	21
DNS	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda		Injured
[7] [8] [9]

• Marc Márquez and Bryan Staring were both black-flagged for pitting to change to their second bikes outside of the designated window.

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	13	20:19.219	1	25
2	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	13	+0.591	5	20
3	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	13	+0.679	3	16
4	3	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	13	+0.893	13	13
5	15	Alex de Angelis	Speed Up	13	+1.111	4	11
6	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	13	+3.073	12	10
7	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	13	+3.234	6	9
8	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	13	+3.655	2	8
9	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	13	+10.182	8	7
10	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	13	+18.083	19	6
11	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	13	+18.317	7	5
12	88	Ricard Cardús	Speed Up	13	+19.415	20	4
13	52	Danny Kent	Tech 3	13	+32.194	21	3
14	8	Gino Rea	Speed Up	13	+32.835	22	2
15	7	Doni Tata Pradita	Suter	13	+35.588	24	1
16	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Up	13	+36.183	9
17	31	Kohta Nozane	Motobi	13	+36.542	27
18	44	Steven Odendaal	Speed Up	13	+36.913	26
19	25	Azlan Shah	Moriwaki	13	+37.099	28
20	97	Rafid Topan Sucipto	Speed Up	13	+37.426	23
21	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	13	+41.817	17
22	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	13	+41.933	14
23	34	Ezequiel Iturrioz	Kalex	13	+47.089	29
24	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	13	+1:30.731	16
Ret	92	Álex Mariñelarena	Kalex	7	Accident	25
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	5	Accident	18
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	4	Accident	10
Ret	5	Johann Zarco	Suter	3	Accident	11
Ret	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	2	Retired	15
DNS	45	Scott Redding	Kalex		Injured
DNS	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Suter		Injured
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	42	Álex Rins	KTM	23	37:40.375	5	25
2	25	Maverick Viñales	KTM	23	+0.003	4	20
3	39	Luis Salom	KTM	23	+0.178	1	16
4	12	Álex Márquez	KTM	23	+0.502	13	13
5	8	Jack Miller	FTR Honda	23	+0.601	10	11
6	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	23	+1.077	2	10
7	7	Efrén Vázquez	Mahindra	23	+1.104	3	9
8	23	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	23	+2.267	12	8
9	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	23	+15.074	21	7
10	10	Alexis Masbou	FTR Honda	23	+15.960	11	6
11	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	23	+15.974	9	5
12	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Kalex KTM	23	+16.105	14	4
13	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	23	+16.311	6	3
14	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	23	+16.532	17	2
15	41	Brad Binder	Mahindra	23	+16.629	15	1
16	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	23	+16.665	16
17	17	John McPhee	FTR Honda	23	+16.898	19
18	11	Livio Loi	Kalex KTM	23	+17.353	23
19	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	23	+19.042	7
20	53	Jasper Iwema	Kalex KTM	23	+36.382	24
21	57	Eric Granado	Kalex KTM	23	+43.184	25
22	43	Luca Grünwald	Kalex KTM	23	+43.193	26
23	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Kalex KTM	23	+43.210	28
24	77	Lorenzo Baldassarri	FTR Honda	23	+43.350	27
25	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	23	+43.357	18
26	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	23	+44.482	8
27	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	TSR Honda	23	+59.576	30
28	21	Luca Amato	Mahindra	23	+1:08.240	29
29	80	Hafiq Azmi	FTR Honda	23	+1:33.737	32
30	75	Lachlan Kavney	Bullet	22	+1 lap	33
Ret	29	Hyuga Watanabe	FTR Honda	10	Accident	31
Ret	4	Francesco Bagnaia	FTR Honda	7	Retired	22
DNS	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM		Did not start	20
DNS	3	Matteo Ferrari	FTR Honda		Injured
DNQ	47	Callum Barker	Honda		Did not qualify
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded. ^[10]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Márquez 298 2 Jorge Lorenzo 280 3 Dani Pedrosa 264 4 Valentino Rossi 214 5 Cal Crutchlow 179

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 349 2 Yamaha 331 3 Ducati 140 4 ART 91 5 FTR 42

Notes:

• Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
• ¹ All points from the race victory for Marc Márquez were deducted as a result of a decision from Race Direction, after Márquez collided with teammate Dani Pedrosa during the race. ^[11] Honda's next-best finisher was Álvaro Bautista, who scored a fourth-place finish.

References

1. "2013 Australian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2013 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Phillip Island Circuit – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
4. "New challenge as mandatory bike swaps added to Australian GP". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
5. "Lorenzo wins in Australia, Marquez disqualified". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
6. "Moto2 race distance shortened to 13 laps". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
7. "2013 Australian MotoGP – Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
8. "TISSOT AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2013". Motogp.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
9. "2013 Australian MotoGp : Race Classifications" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
10. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
11. "Race Direction explains Aragón decision". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.

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