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Race 16 of 18 races in the 2017 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 22 October 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Michelin Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix [1] [2] [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2017 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2017 MotoGP season. It was held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Phillip Island on 22 October 2017.
Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | 40:49.772 | 1 | 25 |
2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 27 | +1.799 | 7 | 20 |
3 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 27 | +1.826 | 2 | 16 |
4 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +1.842 | 3 | 13 |
5 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda | Honda | 27 | +3.845 | 10 | 11 |
6 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 27 | +3.871 | 4 | 10 |
7 | 43 | Jack Miller | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 27 | +5.619 | 5 | 9 |
8 | 42 | Álex Rins | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 27 | +12.208 | 13 | 8 |
9 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 27 | +16.251 | 6 | 7 |
10 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 27 | +16.262 | 9 | 6 |
11 | 45 | Scott Redding | Octo Pramac Racing | Ducati | 27 | +21.652 | 20 | 5 |
12 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +21.668 | 12 | 4 |
13 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 27 | +21.692 | 11 | 3 |
14 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Pull&Bear Aspar Team | Ducati | 27 | +26.110 | 15 | 2 |
15 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati Team | Ducati | 27 | +26.168 | 16 | 1 |
16 | 53 | Tito Rabat | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 27 | +26.252 | 14 | |
17 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Pull&Bear Aspar Team | Ducati | 27 | +36.377 | 22 | |
18 | 76 | Loris Baz | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 27 | +39.654 | 17 | |
19 | 22 | Sam Lowes | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 27 | +40.400 | 23 | |
20 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 27 | +45.901 | 19 | |
21 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Octo Pramac Racing | Ducati | 27 | +48.768 | 18 | |
22 | 23 | Broc Parkes | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +57.711 | 21 | |
Ret | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 8 | |
Sources: [4] [5] [6] |
Miguel Oliveira took his first victory in the Moto2 class and became the first Portuguese rider to win in the intermediate class. KTM took their first victory in Moto2, the first in the intermediate class since the 250cc 2008 British Grand Prix; this ended Kalex winning streak, which had started at the 2015 Argentine Grand Prix.
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM | 25 | 39:25.920 | 3 | 25 |
2 | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 25 | +2.974 | 4 | 20 |
3 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Kalex | 25 | +3.846 | 5 | 16 |
4 | 2 | Jesko Raffin | Kalex | 25 | +7.348 | 9 | 13 |
5 | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Tech 3 | 25 | +7.403 | 12 | 11 |
6 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 25 | +12.125 | 6 | 10 |
7 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Speed Up | 25 | +12.217 | 15 | 9 |
8 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 25 | +12.244 | 8 | 8 |
9 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Suter | 25 | +12.475 | 13 | 7 |
10 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Kalex | 25 | +12.605 | 10 | 6 |
11 | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 25 | +12.971 | 14 | 5 |
12 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 25 | +20.887 | 17 | 4 |
13 | 62 | Stefano Manzi | Kalex | 25 | +28.821 | 21 | 3 |
14 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 25 | +31.214 | 19 | 2 |
15 | 87 | Remy Gardner | Tech 3 | 25 | +34.678 | 16 | 1 |
16 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Kalex | 25 | +34.911 | 23 | |
17 | 37 | Augusto Fernández | Speed Up | 25 | +35.694 | 24 | |
18 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 25 | +56.487 | 27 | |
19 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Kalex | 25 | +56.528 | 25 | |
20 | 27 | Iker Lecuona | Kalex | 25 | +56.550 | 26 | |
21 | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi | Kalex | 25 | +57.548 | 28 | |
22 | 6 | Tarran Mackenzie | Suter | 25 | +1:01.191 | 29 | |
23 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 25 | +1:39.824 | 30 | |
Ret | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 23 | Accident | 7 | |
Ret | 57 | Edgar Pons | Kalex | 23 | Retired | 22 | |
Ret | 40 | Fabio Quartararo | Kalex | 5 | Accident | 20 | |
Ret | 5 | Andrea Locatelli | Kalex | 2 | Accident | 11 | |
Ret | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Kalex | 2 | Accident | 18 | |
Ret | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Suter | 1 | Accident | 2 | |
Ret | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 1 | Collision | 1 | |
DNS | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Kalex | Did not start | |||
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT |
The race, scheduled to be run for 23 laps, was red-flagged on lap 16 due to a rain shower that fell on certain parts of the track. As the race already went through two-thirds of race distance, the race was stopped and the final results were taken at the end of the 15th lap and full points were awarded.
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded. [7]
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Pos. | Rider | Points |
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1 | Franco Morbidelli | 272 |
2 | Thomas Lüthi | 243 |
3 | Miguel Oliveira | 191 |
4 | Álex Márquez | 190 |
5 | Francesco Bagnaia | 150 |
6 | Mattia Pasini | 135 |
7 | Takaaki Nakagami | 128 |
8 | Simone Corsi | 105 |
9 | Xavi Vierge | 90 |
10 | Brad Binder | 89 |
Pos. | Rider | Points |
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1 | Joan Mir | 296 |
2 | Romano Fenati | 226 |
3 | Arón Canet | 184 |
4 | Jorge Martín | 151 |
5 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | 146 |
6 | Enea Bastianini | 114 |
7 | John McPhee | 112 |
8 | Andrea Migno | 108 |
9 | Marcos Ramírez | 107 |
10 | Philipp Öttl | 104 |
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