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| Race 15 of 18 races in the 2016 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 16 October 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Motul Grand Prix of Japan [1] [2] [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Twin Ring Motegi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2016 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 16 October 2016.
In the MotoGP class, both factory Yamaha riders crashed out of the race, thus marking their first double retirement since the 2011 British Grand Prix.
With Andrea Iannone still recovering from the injuries sustained at Misano, he was replaced in the factory Ducati team by Héctor Barberá. Australian Superbike rider Mike Jones made his MotoGP debut filling in for Barbera at Avintia Racing. [4]
Dani Pedrosa suffered a broken collarbone in a crash during Friday practice and was replaced by Honda test rider Hiroshi Aoyama for the rest of the weekend. [5]
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 93 |  Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | 42:34.610 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 04 |  Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +2.992 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +4.104 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +4.726 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 35 |  Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda | Honda | 24 | +15.049 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +19.654 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 24 | +23.032 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Octo Pramac Yakhnich | Ducati | 24 | +28.555 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 45 | Scott Redding | Octo Pramac Yakhnich | Ducati | 24 | +28.802 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 6 |  Stefan Bradl | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 24 | +32.330 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 |  Katsuyuki Nakasuga | Yamalube Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 24 | +42.845 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 68 |  Yonny Hernández | Pull & Bear Aspar Team | Ducati | 24 | +52.219 | 17 | 4 |
| 13 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +53.783 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 24 | +54.760 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 73 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | +1:00.155 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 76 |  Loris Baz | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 24 | +1:04.440 | 20 | |
| 17 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +1:42.966 | 8 | |
| 18 | 7 |  Mike Jones | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 23 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 19 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 6 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 43 | Jack Miller | Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 6 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 50 |  Eugene Laverty | Pull & Bear Aspar Team | Ducati | 2 | Accident | 19 | |
| WD | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | Withdrew | |||
| Sources: [6] [7] [8] | ||||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 12 |  Thomas Lüthi | Kalex | 23 | 42:45.854 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Kalex | 23 | +0.386 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Kalex | 23 | +5.863 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 23 | +6.090 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kalex | 23 | +16.246 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Speed Up | 23 | +20.404 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 23 | +20.683 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 60 | Julián Simón | Speed Up | 23 | +20.760 | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 23 | +24.394 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 19 |  Xavier Siméon | Speed Up | 23 | +27.113 | 17 | 6 |
| 11 | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Tech 3 | 23 | +30.158 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 23 | +32.283 | 26 | 4 |
| 13 | 55 |  Hafizh Syahrin | Kalex | 23 | +32.391 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 23 | +35.348 | 24 | 2 |
| 15 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Tech 3 | 23 | +35.486 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 57 | Edgar Pons | Kalex | 23 | +39.558 | 21 | |
| 17 | 2 | Jesko Raffin | Kalex | 23 | +39.690 | 19 | |
| 18 | 14 |  Ratthapark Wilairot | Kalex | 23 | +45.258 | 25 | |
| 19 | 87 | Remy Gardner | Kalex | 23 | +47.910 | 23 | |
| 20 | 40 | Álex Rins | Kalex | 23 | +1:04.723 | 22 | |
| 21 | 63 | Naomichi Uramoto | Kalex | 23 | +1:05.916 | 29 | |
| 22 | 84 | Taro Sekiguchi | TSR | 23 | +1:26.636 | 30 | |
| Ret | 27 | Iker Lecuona | Kalex | 14 | Accident Damage | 28 | |
| Ret | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 13 | Accident Damage | 6 | |
| Ret | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 10 | Accident Damage | 14 | |
| Ret | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 7 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 52 | Danny Kent | Kalex | 7 | Gear Shifter | 15 | |
| Ret | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex | 4 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 22 | Sam Lowes | Kalex | 1 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 70 | Robin Mulhauser | Kalex | 1 | Accident | 27 | |
| DNS | 44 |  Miguel Oliveira | Kalex | Did not start | |||
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT | |||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 20 | 39:24.273 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 41 |  Brad Binder | KTM | 20 | +0.017 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 8 | Nicolò Bulega | KTM | 20 | +4.002 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 20 | +5.119 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 20 | +6.288 | 18 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | Francesco Bagnaia | Mahindra | 20 | +7.739 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 11 | Livio Loi | Honda | 20 | +7.749 | 15 | 9 |
| 8 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | KTM | 20 | +8.344 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 36 | Joan Mir | KTM | 20 | +8.880 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 20 | +9.037 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | KTM | 20 | +12.332 | 6 | 5 |
| 12 | 7 | Adam Norrodin | Honda | 20 | +13.525 | 9 | 4 |
| 13 | 84 |  Jakub Kornfeil | Honda | 20 | +18.818 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Albert Arenas | Peugeot | 20 | +21.263 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Mahindra | 20 | +21.291 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 95 | Jules Danilo | Honda | 20 | +21.727 | 24 | |
| 17 | 42 | Marcos Ramírez | Mahindra | 20 | +34.475 | 26 | |
| 18 | 64 |  Bo Bendsneyder | KTM | 20 | +39.950 | 27 | |
| 19 | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi | Honda | 20 | +40.177 | 22 | |
| 20 | 3 | Fabio Spiranelli | Mahindra | 20 | +46.804 | 32 | |
| 21 | 77 | Lorenzo Petrarca | Mahindra | 20 | +49.085 | 31 | |
| 22 | 40 | Darryn Binder | Mahindra | 20 | +52.570 | 28 | |
| 23 | 6 | María Herrera | KTM | 20 | +52.682 | 30 | |
| 24 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 20 | +1:16.774 | 1 | |
| 25 | 58 | Juan Francisco Guevara | KTM | 20 | +1:22.102 | 20 | |
| 26 | 13 | Shizuka Okazaki | Honda | 20 | +1:51.623 | 34 | |
| DSQ | 76 | Hiroki Ono | Honda | 20 | (+2.654) [N 2] | 4 | |
| Ret | 88 | Jorge Martín | Mahindra | 10 | Rider In Pain | 23 | |
| Ret | 44 | Arón Canet | Honda | 9 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 55 | Andrea Locatelli | KTM | 4 | Accident | 29 | |
| Ret | 43 | Stefano Valtulini | Mahindra | 3 | Accident | 33 | |
| Ret | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Honda | 0 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 17 | John McPhee | Peugeot | 0 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 19 |  Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 0 | Accident | 19 | |
| DNS | 15 | Rei Sato | Honda | Did not start | |||
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT | |||||||
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded. [9]
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