2013 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

  2013 Japanese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 17 of 18 races in the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	27 October 2013
Official name	AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan [1] [2] [3]
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Time 1:53.471 Fastest lap Rider Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Time 1:45.736 on lap 16 Podium First Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Second Marc Márquez Honda Third Dani Pedrosa Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Mika Kallio Kalex Time 2:01.248 Fastest lap Rider Pol Espargaró Kalex Time 1:52.028 on lap 9 Podium First Pol Espargaró Kalex Second Mika Kallio Kalex Third Thomas Lüthi Suter
Moto3
Pole position Rider Álex Rins KTM Time 2:09.387 Fastest lap Rider Álex Márquez KTM Time 1:58.380 on lap 11 Podium First Álex Márquez KTM Second Maverick Viñales KTM Third Jonas Folger Kalex KTM

The 2013 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventeen round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 27 October 2013. Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP race to gain Yamaha its 200th victory in the 500cc/MotoGP class. ^[4] Pol Espargaró clinched the Moto2 world title after title contenders Scott Redding and Esteve Rabat crashed out in the race. ^[5]

Marc Márquez, Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa, celebrating on the podium after finishing second, first and third at the MotoGP race.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	24	42:34.291	1	25
2	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+3.188	2	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+4.592	4	16
4	19	Álvaro Bautista	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	Honda	24	+19.755	7	13
5	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	24	+22.810	8	11
6	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	24	+24.637	5	10
7	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+27.496	11	9
8	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+30.969	13	8
9	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	+37.010	3	7
10	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	+42.944	6	6
11	21	Katsuyuki Nakasuga	Yamaha YSP Racing Team	Yamaha	24	+53.345	12	5
12	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	24	+1:03.213	14	4
13	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	24	+1:06.840	17	3
14	29	Andrea Iannone	Energy T.I. Pramac Racing	Ducati	24	+1:08.218	15	2
15	68	Yonny Hernández	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	24	+1:18.240	10	1
16	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Blusens	FTR	24	+1:19.108	22
17	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Avintia Blusens	FTR	24	+1:21.174	18
18	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	24	+1:30.546	16
19	70	Michael Laverty	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	24	+2:23.358	19
20	71	Claudio Corti	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	23	+1 lap	21
21	50	Damian Cudlin	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	23	+1 lap	23
22	67	Bryan Staring	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	FTR Honda	23	+1 lap	24
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	12	Accident	9
Ret	23	Luca Scassa	Cardion AB Motoracing	ART	1	Retirement	20
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	1	Retirement	25
[6] [7] [8]

Moto2

The first attempt to run the race was interrupted on the opening lap, following an incident involving Scott Redding, Álex Mariñelarena and Esteve Rabat. For the restart, the race distance was reduced from 23 to 15 laps. ^[9]

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	15	28:15.162	7	25
2	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	15	+1.344	1	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	15	+3.379	12	16
4	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	15	+8.420	2	13
5	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	15	+10.315	19	11
6	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	15	+11.364	24	10
7	15	Alex de Angelis	Speed Up	15	+12.718	21	9
8	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	15	+15.609	8	8
9	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	15	+18.414	22	7
10	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Up	15	+20.679	9	6
11	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	15	+30.759	17	5
12	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	15	+31.134	20	4
13	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	15	+31.335	23	3
14	8	Gino Rea	Speed Up	15	+31.505	13	2
15	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	15	+31.801	11	1
16	31	Kohta Nozane	TSR	15	+41.840	28
17	88	Ricard Cardús	Speed Up	15	+46.192	18
18	94	Franco Morbidelli	Suter	15	+51.771	25
19	44	Steven Odendaal	Speed Up	15	+54.433	32
20	35	Tetsuta Nagashima	Motobi	15	+55.138	15
21	46	Decha Kraisart	Tech 3	15	+55.181	29
22	34	Ezequiel Iturrioz	Kalex	15	+1:03.592	30
23	25	Azlan Shah	Moriwaki	15	+1:32.681	26
Ret	97	Rafid Topan Sucipto	Speed Up	11	Accident	5
Ret	5	Johann Zarco	Suter	9	Retirement	3
Ret	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	8	Accident	16
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	8	Retirement	27
Ret	7	Doni Tata Pradita	Suter	2	Accident	31
Ret	3	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	1	Accident	4
DNS	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	0	Did not restart	6
DNS	92	Álex Mariñelarena	Kalex	0	Did not restart	10
DNS	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	0	Did not restart	14
DNS	52	Danny Kent	Tech 3		Injured
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Álex Márquez	KTM	20	39:45.953	3	25
2	25	Maverick Viñales	KTM	20	+0.027	2	20
3	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	20	+7.750	9	16
4	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	20	+15.889	18	13
5	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	20	+18.323	26	11
6	8	Jack Miller	FTR Honda	20	+18.432	5	10
7	17	John McPhee	FTR Honda	20	+18.439	22	9
8	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	20	+25.608	17	8
9	23	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	20	+25.950	7	7
10	41	Brad Binder	Mahindra	20	+32.933	15	6
11	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Kalex KTM	20	+33.067	16	5
12	11	Livio Loi	Kalex KTM	20	+33.231	25	4
13	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	20	+33.668	32	3
14	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	20	+39.006	27	2
15	29	Hyuga Watanabe	FTR Honda	20	+39.259	12	1
16	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	20	+42.159	19
17	77	Lorenzo Baldassarri	FTR Honda	20	+42.670	24
18	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	20	+46.487	35
19	57	Eric Granado	Kalex KTM	20	+47.005	31
20	4	Francesco Bagnaia	FTR Honda	20	+47.394	34
21	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Kalex KTM	20	+48.496	14
22	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	TSR Honda	20	+51.341	33
23	33	Sena Yamada	Honda	20	+1:00.508	10
24	42	Álex Rins	KTM	20	+1:06.878	1
25	53	Jasper Iwema	Kalex KTM	20	+1:10.254	11
26	80	Hafiq Azmi	FTR Honda	20	+1:13.522	28
Ret	10	Alexis Masbou	FTR Honda	19	Accident	20
Ret	3	Matteo Ferrari	FTR Honda	16	Retirement	30
Ret	21	Luca Amato	Mahindra	14	Accident	29
Ret	39	Luis Salom	KTM	8	Accident	4
Ret	91	Hiroki Ono	Honda	1	Accident	8
Ret	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	0	Accident	6
Ret	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	0	Accident	13
Ret	7	Efrén Vázquez	Mahindra	0	Accident	21
Ret	43	Luca Grünwald	Kalex KTM	0	Accident	23
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Márquez 318 2 Jorge Lorenzo 305 3 Dani Pedrosa 280 4 Valentino Rossi 224 5 Cal Crutchlow 188

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 369 2 Yamaha 356 3 Ducati 147 4 ART 94 5 FTR Kawasaki 43

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 Japanese MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. 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. "Twin Ring Motegi - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
4. "From Mortimer to Lorenzo: Yamaha's 200th premier class victorytitle". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
5. "Pol Espargaró Moto2 World Champion". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 27 October 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
6. "2013 Japanese MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
7. "AIRASIA GRAND PRIX OF JAPAN · MotoGP Race Classification 2013". Motogp.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
8. "2013 Japanese MotoGp : Race Classifications" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
9. "Espargaro wins to claim Moto2 world title". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 27 October 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
10. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2013. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
11. "Race Direction explains Aragón decision". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.

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