2013 United States motorcycle Grand Prix

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Flag of the United States.svg   2013 United States Grand Prix
Race details
Race 9 of 18 races in the
2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Laguna Seca.svg
Date21 July 2013
Official name Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix [1] [2] [3]
Location Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 3.610 km (2.243 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Flag of Germany.svg Stefan Bradl Honda
Time 1:21.176
Fastest lap
Rider Flag of Spain.svg Marc Márquez Honda
Time 1:21.539 on lap 5
Podium
First Flag of Spain.svg Marc Márquez Honda
Second Flag of Germany.svg Stefan Bradl Honda
Third Flag of Italy.svg Valentino Rossi Yamaha

The 2013 United States motorcycle Grand Prix [4] was the ninth round of the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, and the second of three races in the 2013 season to take place in the United States of America. It was held on 21 July at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. Like always, only a MotoGP class race was held at Laguna Seca.

Contents

Stefan Bradl took pole position, recording his first pole position in MotoGP. At the famous corkscrew turn on lap 4 Marc Márquez, having had a faster run out of the previous corner, ran around the outside of Valentino Rossi coming into the corkscrew and was run wide by Rossi mid-corner. Márquez replicated the overtake that Rossi made on Casey Stoner at the same corner in 2008 to pass the Italian and gave chase to Bradl. The gap closed quickly at first but Márquez followed Bradl until lap 19 when he made a pass into the last corner, with the gap gradually extending in Márquez' favour over the next few laps, the Spaniard eventually winning his 3rd GP of the year to extend his championship lead to 16 points over Dani Pedrosa. The win also marked the beating of another of Freddie Spencer's records as Márquez became the youngest rider to win back to back races in the Premier Class of GP racing and the first/only rookie to win at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This was the last MotoGP race to take place at Laguna Seca, which was then replaced by the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in 2014 in Termas de Río Hondo, Argentina. Bradl finished in second place, recorded his first podium in MotoGP and Rossi finished in third place.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.No.RiderTeamManufacturerLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
193 Flag of Spain.svg Marc Márquez Repsol Honda Team Honda 3244:00.695225
26 Flag of Germany.svg Stefan Bradl LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 32+2.298120
346 Flag of Italy.svg Valentino Rossi Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 32+4.498416
419 Flag of Spain.svg Álvaro Bautista Go&Fun Honda Gresini Honda 32+4.557313
526 Flag of Spain.svg Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Team Honda 32+9.257711
699 Flag of Spain.svg Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 32+12.970610
735 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Cal Crutchlow Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 32+15.30459
869 Flag of the United States.svg Nicky Hayden Ducati Team Ducati 32+33.963108
94 Flag of Italy.svg Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Team Ducati 32+34.12987
108 Flag of Spain.svg Héctor Barberá Avintia Blusens FTR 32+1:02.369136
1115 Flag of San Marino.svg Alex de Angelis Ignite Pramac Racing Ducati 32+1:02.604145
125 Flag of the United States.svg Colin Edwards NGM Mobile Forward Racing FTR Kawasaki 32+1:03.593154
139 Flag of Italy.svg Danilo Petrucci Came IodaRacing Project Ioda-Suter 32+1:20.420163
1417 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Karel Abraham Cardion AB Motoracing ART 31+1 lap192
1568 Flag of Colombia.svg Yonny Hernández Paul Bird Motorsport ART 31+1 lap181
167 Flag of Japan.svg Hiroshi Aoyama Avintia Blusens FTR 31+1 lap21
1767 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bryan Staring Go&Fun Honda Gresini FTR Honda 31+1 lap22
1852 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Lukáš Pešek Came IodaRacing Project Ioda-Suter 31+1 lap23
Ret38 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Bradley Smith Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 7Mechanical9
Ret41 Flag of Spain.svg Aleix Espargaró Power Electronics Aspar ART 5Accident11
Ret14 Flag of France.svg Randy de Puniet Power Electronics Aspar ART 4Engine12
Ret71 Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Corti NGM Mobile Forward Racing FTR Kawasaki 3Mechanical17
Ret70 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Michael Laverty Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 1Accident20
WD79 Flag of the United States.svg Blake Young Attack Performance Racing APR Bike damaged
[5] [6] [7]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded. [8]

References

  1. "2013 United States MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. June 13, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2013 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Laguna Seca Raceway - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  4. "New deal keeps MotoGP at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca until at least 2014". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. June 25, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
  5. "2013 United States MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. June 13, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  6. "RED BULL U.S. GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2013". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  7. "2013 United States MotoGp : Race classification" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  8. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
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