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| Race 16 of 19 races in the 2019 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 20 October 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Motul Grand Prix of Japan [1] [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2019 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2019 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 20 October 2019.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 93 |  Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | 42:41.492 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 20 |  Fabio Quartararo | Petronas Yamaha SRT | Yamaha | 24 | +0.870 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 4 |  Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +1.325 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 12 | Maverick Viñales | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 24 | +2.608 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 35 |  Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda Castrol | Honda | 24 | +9.140 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Petronas Yamaha SRT | Yamaha | 24 | +9.187 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | 42 | Álex Rins | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +9.306 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 36 | Joan Mir | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +10.695 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +14.216 | 8 | 7 |
| 10 | 43 |  Jack Miller | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +18.909 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 24 | +25.554 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 88 |  Miguel Oliveira | Red Bull KTM Tech3 | KTM | 24 | +27.870 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 63 | Francesco Bagnaia | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +29.983 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 82 |  Mika Kallio | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 24 | +31.232 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 24 | +32.546 | 9 | 1 |
| 16 | 30 |  Takaaki Nakagami | LCR Honda Idemitsu | Honda | 24 | +37.482 | 13 | |
| 17 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | +40.410 | 19 | |
| 18 | 17 |  Karel Abraham | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 24 | +43.458 | 18 | |
| 19 | 55 |  Hafizh Syahrin | Red Bull KTM Tech3 | KTM | 24 | +46.206 | 20 | |
| 20 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +50.235 | 21 | |
| Ret | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 20 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 22 | |
| DNS | 53 | Tito Rabat | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | Did not start | |||
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| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 22 | 40:57.279 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 12 |  Thomas Lüthi | Kalex | 22 | +0.560 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 88 | Jorge Martín | KTM | 22 | +3.593 | 14 | 16 |
| 4 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 22 | +3.999 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Speed Up | 22 | +5.236 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 22 | +7.345 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Kalex | 22 | +8.115 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 40 | Augusto Fernández | Kalex | 22 | +10.460 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | 23 |  Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 22 | +10.711 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 62 | Stefano Manzi | MV Agusta | 22 | +12.445 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Speed Up | 22 | +12.572 | 21 | 5 |
| 12 | 41 |  Brad Binder | KTM | 22 | +14.864 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 35 |  Somkiat Chantra | Kalex | 22 | +15.008 | 6 | 3 |
| 14 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | MV Agusta | 22 | +15.778 | 28 | 2 |
| 15 | 5 | Andrea Locatelli | Kalex | 22 | +23.595 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 64 |  Bo Bendsneyder | NTS | 22 | +27.307 | 27 | |
| 17 | 96 | Jake Dixon | KTM | 22 | +30.304 | 32 | |
| 18 | 16 |  Joe Roberts | KTM | 22 | +33.806 | 24 | |
| 19 | 2 | Jesko Raffin | NTS | 22 | +36.962 | 22 | |
| 20 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 22 | +43.682 | 29 | |
| 21 | 20 |  Dimas Ekky Pratama | Kalex | 22 | +45.143 | 25 | |
| 22 | 47 | Adam Norrodin | Kalex | 22 | +59.459 | 31 | |
| 23 | 18 |  Xavi Cardelús | KTM | 22 | +1:14.661 | 30 | |
| Ret | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 17 | Accident Damage | 23 | |
| Ret | 72 | Marco Bezzecchi | KTM | 12 | Illness | 8 | |
| Ret | 87 | Remy Gardner | Kalex | 8 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 27 | Iker Lecuona | KTM | 4 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Kalex | 4 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 22 | Sam Lowes | Kalex | 2 | Broken Handlebar | 15 | |
| Ret | 11 | Nicolò Bulega | Kalex | 1 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 3 | Lukas Tulovic | KTM | 1 | Accident Damage | 26 | |
| Ret | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 0 | Accident | 16 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT | |||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Honda | 20 | 39:34.866 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 75 | Albert Arenas | KTM | 20 | +0.094 | 13 | 20 |
| 3 | 13 | Celestino Vietti | KTM | 20 | +0.198 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Honda | 20 | +0.289 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Sergio García | Honda | 20 | +0.437 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 17 | John McPhee | Honda | 20 | +3.648 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 | Jaume Masiá | KTM | 20 | +7.225 | 18 | 9 |
| 8 | 42 | Marcos Ramírez | Honda | 20 | +7.382 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 | Alonso López | Honda | 20 | +8.172 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 20 | +12.054 | 21 [N 1] | 6 |
| 11 | 76 |  Makar Yurchenko | KTM | 20 | +12.296 | 4 | 5 |
| 12 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 20 | +13.295 | 1 | 4 |
| 13 | 71 | Ayumu Sasaki | Honda | 20 | +13.308 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 79 | Ai Ogura | Honda | 20 | +13.333 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 6 | Ryusei Yamanaka | Honda | 20 | +13.362 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 82 | Stefano Nepa | KTM | 20 | +13.380 | 20 | |
| 17 | 27 | Kaito Toba | Honda | 20 | +13.487 | 15 | |
| 18 | 61 |  Can Öncü | KTM | 20 | +13.940 | 23 | |
| 19 | 25 | Raúl Fernández | KTM | 20 | +14.648 | 26 | |
| 20 | 22 | Kazuki Masaki | KTM | 20 | +22.886 | 24 | |
| 21 | 54 | Riccardo Rossi | Honda | 20 | +22.907 | 25 | |
| 22 | 12 | Filip Salač | KTM | 20 | +23.416 | 30 [N 2] | |
| 23 | 7 | Dennis Foggia | KTM | 20 | +32.728 | 29 | |
| 24 | 69 | Tom Booth-Amos | KTM | 16 | +4 laps | 28 | |
| Ret | 55 | Romano Fenati | Honda | 15 | Mechanical | 22 | |
| Ret | 44 | Arón Canet | KTM | 14 | Accident Damage | 8 | |
| Ret | 14 | Tony Arbolino | Honda | 9 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 40 | Darryn Binder | KTM | 7 | Accident Damage | 14 | |
| Ret | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | KTM | 0 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 19 |  Gabriel Rodrigo | Honda | 0 | Accident | 10 | |
| DNQ | 36 | Sho Hasegawa | Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT | |||||||
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