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| Race 1 of 19 races in the 2018 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 18 March 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Grand Prix of Qatar [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Losail International Circuit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2018 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Losail International Circuit in Doha on 18 March 2018.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 4 |  Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 22 | 42:34.654 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | 93 |  Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +0.027 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 22 | +0.797 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 35 |  Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda Castrol | Honda | 22 | +2.881 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 22 | +3.821 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 22 | +3.888 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +4.621 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 5 |  Johann Zarco | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 22 | +7.112 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 22 | +12.957 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 43 |  Jack Miller | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 22 | +14.594 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 22 | +15.181 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 22 | +16.274 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 22 | +19.788 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 55 |  Hafizh Syahrin | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 22 | +20.299 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 17 |  Karel Abraham | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 22 | +23.287 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 12 |  Thomas Lüthi | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 22 | +24.189 | 18 | |
| 17 | 30 |  Takaaki Nakagami | LCR Honda Idemitsu | Honda | 22 | +24.554 | 23 | |
| 18 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 22 | +31.704 | 20 | |
| 19 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 22 | +34.712 | 13 | |
| 20 | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 22 | +37.641 | 17 | |
| 21 | 10 |  Xavier Siméon | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 22 | +46.706 | 24 | |
| Ret | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 15 | Electronics | 22 | |
| Ret | 42 | Álex Rins | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 12 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati Team | Ducati | 12 | Accident | 9 | |
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| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 20 | 40:19.802 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 20 | +0.112 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 20 | +5.625 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 20 | +6.657 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 44 |  Miguel Oliveira | KTM | 20 | +10.296 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 41 |  Brad Binder | KTM | 20 | +10.344 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 23 |  Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 20 | +11.419 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Kalex | 20 | +11.516 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 20 | +20.690 | 17 | 7 |
| 10 | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Kalex | 20 | +20.961 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | 36 | Joan Mir | Kalex | 20 | +23.025 | 24 | 5 |
| 12 | 87 | Remy Gardner | Tech 3 | 20 | +30.292 | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 40 | Héctor Barberá | Kalex | 20 | +30.299 | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Kalex | 20 | +30.732 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | KTM | 20 | +30.870 | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Kalex | 20 | +31.052 | 18 | |
| 17 | 52 | Danny Kent | Speed Up | 20 | +31.958 | 6 | |
| 18 | 64 |  Bo Bendsneyder | Tech 3 | 20 | +32.382 | 20 | |
| 19 | 5 | Andrea Locatelli | Kalex | 20 | +35.228 | 23 | |
| 20 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | Speed Up | 20 | +35.357 | 16 | |
| 21 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 20 | +35.969 | 26 | |
| 22 | 4 | Steven Odendaal | NTS | 20 | +42.545 | 22 | |
| 23 | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi | Kalex | 20 | +42.776 | 25 | |
| 24 | 13 | Romano Fenati | Kalex | 20 | +44.562 | 5 | |
| 25 | 16 |  Joe Roberts | NTS | 20 | +56.077 | 27 | |
| 26 | 62 | Stefano Manzi | Suter | 20 | +1:01.581 | 28 | |
| 27 | 95 | Jules Danilo | Kalex | 20 | +1:01.853 | 29 | |
| 28 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | Kalex | 20 | +1:11.618 | 32 | |
| 29 | 21 | Federico Fuligni | Kalex | 20 | +1:20.148 | 31 | |
| 30 | 51 |  Eric Granado | Suter | 20 | +1:26.192 | 30 | |
| Ret | 22 | Sam Lowes | KTM | 10 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 27 | Iker Lecuona | KTM | 7 | Engine | 15 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT | |||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 88 | Jorge Martín | Honda | 18 | 38:18.207 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 44 | Arón Canet | Honda | 18 | +0.023 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Honda | 18 | +6.746 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 18 | +6.791 | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | 19 |  Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 18 | +6.850 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 18 | +6.916 | 16 | 10 |
| 7 | 27 | Kaito Toba | Honda | 18 | +6.946 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 71 | Ayumu Sasaki | Honda | 18 | +6.998 | 4 | 8 |
| 9 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | KTM | 18 | +7.156 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 18 | +7.699 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 7 | Adam Norrodin | Honda | 18 | +7.753 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Jaume Masiá | KTM | 18 | +8.026 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 22 | Kazuki Masaki | KTM | 18 | +8.829 | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Marco Bezzecchi | KTM | 18 | +21.838 | 6 | 2 |
| 15 | 42 | Marcos Ramírez | KTM | 18 | +26.912 | 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 10 | Dennis Foggia | KTM | 18 | +26.981 | 24 | |
| 17 | 14 | Tony Arbolino | Honda | 18 | +33.401 | 25 | |
| 18 | 41 |  Nakarin Atiratphuvapat | Honda | 18 | +33.446 | 26 | |
| 19 | 76 |  Makar Yurchenko | KTM | 18 | +33.622 | 23 | |
| Ret | 17 | John McPhee | KTM | 17 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 72 | Alonso López | Honda | 11 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 11 | Livio Loi | KTM | 11 | Gear Shifter | 18 | |
| Ret | 8 | Nicolò Bulega | KTM | 10 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 5 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 3 | Collision | 8 | |
| Ret | 40 | Darryn Binder | KTM | 3 | Collision | 20 | |
| DNS | 75 | Albert Arenas | KTM | Did not start | |||
| DNS | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Honda | Did not start | |||
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT | |||||||
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