Motogp Round 13

GP Aperol di San Marino e Riviera di Rimini

                

GP Aperol di San Marino e Riviera di Rimini

GP Aperol di San Marino e Riviera di Rimini

Circuit info                                                                           

Length: 4.226 m / 2.626 miles

Width: 14m

Left corners: 6

Right corners: 10

Longest straight: 565 m / 0.351 miles

Constructed: 1969

Modified: 2008

Race Length:  MotoGP  Moto2   Moto3
Laps         2/3 of laps Total Distance
28            -               118.3 km - 73.5 miles

Introduction:

Close to the city of Rimini, the Misano Adriático circuit was constructed in 1972 and has since undergone an array of modifications. A regular scene for Italian Grands Prix throughout the 80s and early 90s, Misano returned to the MotoGP calendar in 2007.With updated facilities, track and grandstands, the Misano Adriatico holds a maximum capacity of 60,000 spectators. In accordance with MotoGP safety regulations, the 4,200m track runs clockwise for the World Championship races.

MotoGP Race Classification 2012 

Misano Adriatico, Sunday, September 16, 2012

Pos.	Points	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time/Gap
1	25	99	Jorge LORENZO	SPA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	159.8	42'49.836
2	20	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	159.6	4.398
3	16	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	SPA	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	159.5	6.055
4	13	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	159.5	6.058
5	11	11	Ben SPIES	USA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	159.4	7.543
6	10	6	Stefan BRADL	GER	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	159	13.272
7	9	69	Nicky HAYDEN	USA	Ducati Team	Ducati	157.3	40.907
8	8	56	Jonathan REA	GBR	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	157.2	43.162
9	7	14	Randy DE PUNIET	FRA	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	155.6	+1'09.627
10	6	51	Michele PIRRO	ITA	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	155.4	+1'13.605
11	5	5	Colin EDWARDS	USA	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	155.2	+1'16.695
12	4	68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	COL	Avintia Blusens	BQR	155.1	+1'19.073
13	3	77	James ELLISON	GBR	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	155.1	+1'19.408
14	2	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	ITA	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	152	1 Lap
15	1	44	David SALOM	SPA	Avintia Blusens	BQR	150.7	1 Lap

MotoGP Qualifying

Misano Adriatico,
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Pos.	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time	Gap 1st/Prev.
1	93	Marc MARQUEZ	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	285.9	1'32.915
2	99	Jorge LORENZO	SPA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	284.3	1'33.428	0.513 / 0.513
3	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	282.1	1'33.573	0.658 / 0.145
4	26	Dani PEDROSA	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	289.5	1'33.726	0.811 / 0.153
5	35	Cal CRUTCHLOW	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	280.1	1'34.014	1.099 / 0.288
6	41	Aleix ESPARGARO	SPA	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	274.1	1'34.028	1.113 / 0.014
7	6	Stefan BRADL	GER	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	286.9	1'34.098	1.183 / 0.070
8	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	SPA	GO&FUN Honda Gresini	Honda	286.7	1'34.230	1.315 / 0.132
9	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	279.8	1'34.338	1.423 / 0.108
10	69	Nicky HAYDEN	USA	Ducati Team	Ducati	281.6	1'34.362	1.447 / 0.024
11	51	Michele PIRRO	ITA	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	280.3	1'34.467	1.552 / 0.105
12	29	Andrea IANNONE	ITA	Energy T.I. Pramac Racing	Ducati	282.5	1'34.519	1.604 / 0.052

Motogp News

Record-breaking Marquez storms to Misano pole

Marc Marquez has impressively collected his sixth pole position of the 2013 MotoGP™ season, beating Casey Stoner’s Misano lap record in the process. The championship leader will start alongside Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi, with teammate Dani Pedrosa coming from fourth place on the grid.

As qualifying drew to a close at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, it looked as though Marquez had beaten Lorenzo by just 24 thousandths of a second. The Repsol Honda Team man (despite having suffered an accident during the preceding fourth practice session) then delivered a crushing blow in the form of 1’32.915, establishing the new qualifying record and sealing his second consecutive pole by over half a second. Lorenzo was comfortably second ahead of Yamaha Factory Racing partner Rossi, both now running with seamless shifter gearboxes for the first time. In fourth spot, Honda’s Pedrosa - on pole last year - was clearly frustrated for the duration of the day and was eight tenths of a second off the pole position time.

Cal Crutchlow delivered an inspiring lap for fifth place, having been outside of the combined top ten in practice which meant he passed through Q1 for the first time. The Englishman will fill the middle of Row 2 ahead of Aleix Espargaro, again very much punching above his weight to qualify his CRT-specification Power Electronics Aspar ART machine in sixth position. Stefan Bradl starts seventh for LCR Honda MotoGP, ahead of GO&FUN Honda Gresini’s Alvaro Bautista (who finished on the podium here last year) and Ducati Team duo Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden.

A total of six Italians will start this weekend’s race, two being on Row 4 as Pramac Racing teammates Michele Pirro and Andrea Iannone have qualified 11th and 12th. Bradley Smith struggled to 13th spot after at Turn 14 crash at the end of Q1, while Hector Barbera managed 17th place as the only Avintia Blusens rider to be running with a new pneumatic valve engine. The 24-rider grid will be completed by Came IodaRacing Project’s Lukas Pesek, with six races remaining in the 2013 season.

As he also did at Indianapolis in mid-August, Marc Marquez has topped every season in which he has taken part so far this weekend. Sunday’s GP Aperol di San Marino e Riviera di Rimini, Round 13 of the season, begins at 2pm local time (GMT +2).

Lorenzo hails ‘amazing’ Marquez lap

Jorge Lorenzo expected more from qualifying at Misano on Saturday. Although he managed second place, the current title holder trailed pole-sitter and championship leader Marc Marquez by no less than half a second.

Lorenzo has won the GP Aperol di San Marino e Riviera di Rimini for the past two years, but on Saturday was aiming for his first Misano pole since 2008.

“I expected to struggle less this weekend and go faster than last year, but I couldn’t be faster and I couldn't improve the bike so much,” admitted the Yamaha Factory Racing rider. “We improved a little, but not enough to be closer to Marc. He made an amazing lap. We are struggling to stop the bike in braking and we have more spinning than normal in acceleration - that is why the lap time is not great.

“I will try to make a good start tomorrow and maybe the best strategy is to follow Marc and see how our performance is during the race.”

Lorenzo’s teammate Valentino Rossi will start third, as both the Spaniard and Italian race with seamless shifter gearboxes for the very first time.

“We are satisfied with yesterday and today because we worked very well during the practice, I was always strong and we improved the setting step-by-step,” explains nine-time World Champion Rossi. “This afternoon my bike was fantastic; it had a great setting with a lot of grip. With the second tyre, I was alone with no traffic; I pushed very much from the first corner, with a great feeling with the bike, and I improved my lap time a lot.

“I’m happy because it's very important to start on the front row tomorrow, as Marc and Dani (Pedrosa) are very fast and also Lorenzo is very strong and very fast. Tomorrow I want to be on the podium, so starting with them from the beginning is important to fight for it. I want a great race and I want to be on the podium!”

With six races remaining in 2013 including that of Misano this weekend, Lorenzo and Rossi sit third and fourth in the Riders’ Championship, respectively 39 and 77 points in arrears of Marquez who has led since the German Grand Prix in mid-July.

Espargaro delighted with sixth on grid

After out-qualifying several prototype-equipped riders on Saturday at Misano Aleix Espargaro was very pleased with his Q2 result.

The Power Electronics Aspar rider put in a 1’34.028 best lap on his ART machine, a brilliant effort which gave him sixth place on the grid and saw him miss the front row by just 0.455s.

The performance saw him qualify ahead of the likes of Stefan Bradl, Alvaro Bautista, Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden, and reflecting on qualifying Espargaro told motogp.com:

“I’m happy because it was a really good afternoon. On the first set of new tyres I made a big mistake and my lap time was not bad but I knew we could go much faster. Then with the second set of tyres I did two really fast laps and I’m on the second row.”

He continued, “I’m proud about it because although we were on the second row in Germany that was without Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo on the track. In the race I will try to make a good start and then try to be in the top six again.”

Asked about racing at Misano, Espargaro replied, “I like this track and ever since racing in 250cc every time we come here I enjoy it. For our bike it’s really good too, really tight and small, the power doesn’t matter so much. So we need to try and use this to our advantage.”

Lorenzo, Marquez, Rossi, Yamaha Factory Racing, Repsol Honda Team, Misano

Valentino Rossi, Yamaha Factory Racing, Misano

Nicky Hayden, Ducato Team, Misano

Race day

MotoGP Misano RAC

MotoGP Misano RAC

Valentino Rossi, Yamaha Factory Racing, Misano RAC

Jorge Lorenzo, Yamaha Factory Racing, Misano RAC

Andrea Dovizioso, Nicky Hayden, Ducati Team, Misano RAC

Alvaro Bautista, GO&FUN Honda Gresini, Misano RAC

Stefan Bradl, LCR Honda MotoGP, Misano RAC

Dani Pedrosa, Repsol Honda Team, Misano RAC

Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team, Misano RAC

Jorge Lorenzo, Yamaha Factory Racing, Misano RAC

 

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MotoGP Race Classification 2013 

Misano Adriatico, Sunday, September 15, 2013

Pos.	Points	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time/Gap
1	25	99	Jorge LORENZO	SPA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	161	44'05.522
2	20	93	Marc MARQUEZ	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	160.8	3.379
3	16	26	Dani PEDROSA	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	160.5	7.368
4	13	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	160.1	15.062
5	11	6	Stefan BRADL	GER	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	159.6	22.355
6	10	35	Cal CRUTCHLOW	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	159.6	22.599
7	9	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	SPA	GO&FUN Honda Gresini	Honda	159.1	31.059
8	8	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	158.4	42.702
9	7	69	Nicky HAYDEN	USA	Ducati Team	Ducati	158.3	44.858
10	6	51	Michele PIRRO	ITA	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	158.1	47.818
11	5	38	Bradley SMITH	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	158.1	48.011
12	4	5	Colin EDWARDS	USA	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	157.2	+1'03.154
13	3	41	Aleix ESPARGARO	SPA	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	157	+1'07.600
14	2	7	Hiroshi AOYAMA	JPN	Avintia Blusens	FTR	156.5	+1'15.528
15	1	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	ITA	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	156.4	+1'17.907
16		71	Claudio CORTI	ITA	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	155.7	+1'29.655
17		14	Randy DE PUNIET	FRA	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	155.4	+1'33.990
18		70	Michael LAVERTY	GBR	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	155.3	+1'36.860

MotoGP World Standing 2013

Pos.	Rider	Bike	Nation	Points
1	Marc MARQUEZ	Honda	SPA	253
2	Jorge LORENZO	Yamaha	SPA	219
3	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	SPA	219
4	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	ITA	169
5	Cal CRUTCHLOW	Yamaha	GBR	146
6	Stefan BRADL	Honda	GER	124
7	Alvaro BAUTISTA	Honda	SPA	112
8	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	Ducati	ITA	104
9	Nicky HAYDEN	Ducati	USA	95
10	Bradley SMITH	Yamaha	GBR	71
11	Aleix ESPARGARO	ART	SPA	71
12	Michele PIRRO	Ducati	ITA	50
13	Andrea IANNONE	Ducati	ITA	41
14	Colin EDWARDS	FTR Kawasaki	USA	31
15	Hector BARBERA	FTR	SPA	27
16	Danilo PETRUCCI	Ioda-Suter	ITA	23
17	Randy DE PUNIET	ART	FRA	20
18	Ben SPIES	Ducati	USA	9
19	Claudio CORTI	FTR Kawasaki	ITA	7
20	Yonny HERNANDEZ	ART	COL	7
21	Hiroshi AOYAMA	FTR	JPN	6
22	Alex DE ANGELIS	Ducati	RSM	5
23	Karel ABRAHAM	ART	CZE	5
24	Michael LAVERTY	PBM	GBR	3
25	Bryan STARING	FTR Honda	AUS	2
26	Javier DEL AMOR	FTR	SPA	1

Moto2 Race Classification

Pos.	Points	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time/Gap
1	25	40	Pol ESPARGARO	SPA	Tuenti HP 40	Kalex	154	42'47.098
2	20	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	JPN	Italtrans Racing Team	Kalex	154	0.621
3	16	80	Esteve RABAT	SPA	Tuenti HP 40	Kalex	153.9	1.815
4	13	12	Thomas LUTHI	SWI	Interwetten Paddock Moto2 Racing	Suter	153.3	12.919
5	11	77	Dominique AEGERTER	SWI	Technomag carXpert	Suter	153.1	14.925
6	10	45	Scott REDDING	GBR	Marc VDS Racing Team	Kalex	153.1	15.123
7	9	5	Johann ZARCO	FRA	Came Iodaracing Project	Suter	153.1	15.259
8	8	19	Xavier SIMEON	BEL	Maptaq SAG Zelos Team	Kalex	152.8	20.369
9	7	36	Mika KALLIO	FIN	Marc VDS Racing Team	Kalex	152.8	20.615
10	6	18	Nicolas TEROL	SPA	Aspar Team Moto2	Suter	152.6	24.635

Moto3 Race Classification

Pos.	Points	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time/Gap
1	25	42	Alex RINS	SPA	Estrella Galicia 0,0	KTM	146.3	39'50.516
2	20	25	Maverick VIÑALES	SPA	Team Calvo	KTM	146.3	0.05
3	16	12	Alex MARQUEZ	SPA	Estrella Galicia 0,0	KTM	145.9	6.434
4	13	39	Luis SALOM	SPA	Red Bull KTM Ajo	KTM	145.3	17.297
5	11	8	Jack MILLER	AUS	Caretta Technology - RTG	FTR Honda	145.2	18.011
6	10	63	Zulfahmi KHAIRUDDIN	MAL	Red Bull KTM Ajo	KTM	145.2	18.133
7	9	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	POR	Mahindra Racing	Mahindra	145.2	18.456
8	8	23	Niccolò ANTONELLI	ITA	GO&FUN Gresini Moto3	FTR Honda	145.2	18.604
9	7	65	Philipp OETTL	GER	Tec Interwetten Moto3 Racing	Kalex KTM	144.8	24.892
10	6	5	Romano FENATI	ITA	San Carlo Team Italia	FTR Honda	144.8	25.113