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| Race 1 of 18 races in the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 7 April 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar [1] [2] [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Losail International Circuit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2013 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Losail International Circuit near Doha in Qatar on 7 April 2013.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 99 |  Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 22 | 42:39.802 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 |  Valentino Rossi | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 22 | +5.990 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +6.201 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +9.473 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 35 |  Cal Crutchlow | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 22 | +18.764 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | Honda | 22 | +22.148 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 22 | +24.355 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 69 |  Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | 22 | +24.920 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Energy T.I. Pramac Racing | Ducati | 22 | +37.124 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 11 | Ben Spies | Ignite Pramac Racing | Ducati | 22 | +44.908 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 22 | +49.809 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 |  Randy de Puniet | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 22 | +56.495 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Avintia Blusens | FTR | 22 | +1:09.599 | 22 | 3 |
| 14 | 68 |  Yonny Hernández | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART | 22 | +1:10.742 | 16 | 2 |
| 15 | 7 |  Hiroshi Aoyama | Avintia Blusens | FTR | 22 | +1:13.600 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 71 | Claudio Corti | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | FTR Kawasaki | 22 | +1:29.444 | 21 | |
| 17 | 70 | Michael Laverty | Paul Bird Motorsport | PBM | 22 | +1:34.341 | 24 | |
| 18 | 52 |  Lukáš Pešek | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda-Suter | 22 | +1:34.683 | 15 | |
| Ret | 5 | Colin Edwards | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | FTR Kawasaki | 15 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda-Suter | 12 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 6 |  Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 8 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 38 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 4 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 67 |  Bryan Staring | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | FTR Honda | 1 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 17 | Karel Abraham | Cardion AB Motoracing | ART | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
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| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 40 | Pol Espargaró | Kalex | 20 | 40:31.782 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 45 | Scott Redding | Kalex | 20 | +0.844 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 20 | +12.098 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 77 |  Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 20 | +18.910 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 36 |  Mika Kallio | Kalex | 20 | +18.933 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 60 | Julián Simón | Kalex | 20 | +19.018 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | Simone Corsi | Speed Up | 20 | +19.230 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 |  Alex de Angelis | Speed Up | 20 | +19.452 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 80 | Esteve Rabat | Kalex | 20 | +20.219 | 8 | 7 |
| 10 | 19 |  Xavier Siméon | Kalex | 20 | +20.972 | 17 | 6 |
| 11 | 81 | Jordi Torres | Suter | 20 | +21.674 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Suter | 20 | +22.084 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 20 | +22.093 | 9 | 3 |
| 14 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Suter | 20 | +22.496 | 7 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Toni Elías | Kalex | 20 | +36.677 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Motobi | 20 | +36.697 | 10 | |
| 17 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kalex | 20 | +41.857 | 13 | |
| 18 | 52 | Danny Kent | Tech 3 | 20 | +45.295 | 26 | |
| 19 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Suter | 20 | +47.673 | 24 | |
| 20 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Suter | 20 | +54.197 | 32 | |
| 21 | 9 | Kyle Smith | Kalex | 20 | +59.245 | 28 | |
| 22 | 44 |  Steven Odendaal | Speed Up | 20 | +1:02.713 | 29 | |
| 23 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Moriwaki | 20 | +1:04.294 | 23 | |
| 24 | 7 |  Doni Tata Pradita | Suter | 20 | +1:14.017 | 27 | |
| 25 | 17 | Alberto Moncayo | Speed Up | 20 | +1:37.009 | 31 | |
| 26 | 97 | Rafid Topan Sucipto | Speed Up | 19 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| Ret | 14 |  Ratthapark Wilairot | Suter | 15 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 88 | Ricard Cardús | Speed Up | 8 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Speed Up | 8 | Retirement | 25 | |
| DSQ | 95 | Anthony West | Speed Up | 7 | (Retirement) [7] | 15 | |
| Ret | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 3 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 96 | Louis Rossi | Tech 3 | 3 | Accident | 22 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT | |||||||
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded. [8]
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[...] 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.
