2011 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix

  2011 Qatar Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 18 races in the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 March 2011
Official name	Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar
Location	Losail Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.380 km (3.343 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Casey Stoner	Honda
Time	1:54.137
Fastest lap
Rider	Casey Stoner	Honda
Time	1:55.366
Podium
First	Casey Stoner	Honda
Second	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Third	Dani Pedrosa	Honda
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Stefan Bradl	Kalex
Time	2:00.168
Fastest lap
Rider	Alex de Angelis	Motobi
Time	2:01.003
Podium
First	Stefan Bradl	Kalex
Second	Andrea Iannone	Suter
Third	Thomas Lüthi	Suter
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia
Time	2:06.605
Fastest lap
Rider	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia
Time	2:06.463
Podium
First	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia
Second	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia
Third	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia

The 2011 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the opening round of the 2011 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 17–20 March 2011 at the Losail International Circuit located in Doha, Qatar. In the MotoGP race Casey Stoner won finishing 3.44 seconds ahead of 2010 world champion Jorge Lorenzo with Dani Pedrosa in third place.^[1]

MotoGP classification

Pos	No	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Honda	22	42:38.569	1	25
2	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	22	+3.440	3	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	22	+5.051	2	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	22	+5.942	7	13
5	58	Marco Simoncelli	Honda	22	+7.358	4	11
6	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha	22	+10.468	5	10
7	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati	22	+16.431	9	9
8	5	Colin Edwards	Yamaha	22	+26.293	10	8
9	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	22	+27.416	13	7
10	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	22	+28.920	12	6
11	35	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	22	+34.539	8	5
12	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	22	+34.829	6	4
13	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	22	+37.957	15	3
Ret	24	Toni Elías	Honda	18	Accident	16
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati	1	Retirement	14
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Ducati	0	Accident	11
DNS	19	Álvaro Bautista	Suzuki		Injured

Moto2 classification

Pos	No	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	65	Stefan Bradl	Kalex	20	40:38.549	1	25
2	29	Andrea Iannone	Suter	20	+4.330	16	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	20	+5.137	3	16
4	15	Alex de Angelis	MotoBi	20	+5.925	8	13
5	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	20	+6.621	4	11
6	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	20	+14.217	11	10
7	16	Jules Cluzel	Suter	20	+14.257	5	9
8	51	Michele Pirro	Moriwaki	20	+14.501	9	8
9	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	20	+18.910	7	7
10	60	Julián Simón	Suter	20	+19.174	6	6
11	40	Aleix Espargaró	Pons Kalex	20	+19.442	14	5
12	68	Yonny Hernández	FTR	20	+20.830	20	4
13	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	20	+20.837	15	3
14	34	Esteve Rabat	FTR	20	+20.855	17	2
15	76	Max Neukirchner	MZ-RE Honda	20	+26.803	12	1
16	80	Axel Pons	Pons Kalex	20	+27.295	23
17	88	Ricard Cardús	Moriwaki	20	+28.080	22
18	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Suter	20	+28.212	28
19	63	Mike Di Meglio	Tech 3	20	+34.939	19
20	36	Mika Kallio	Suter	20	+34.962	25
21	71	Claudio Corti	Suter	20	+37.982	18
22	44	Pol Espargaró	FTR	20	+43.491	24
23	53	Valentin Debise	FTR	20	+43.659	26
24	9	Kenny Noyes	FTR	20	+47.476	34
25	19	Xavier Simeon	Tech 3	20	+47.755	35
26	21	Javier Forés	Suter	20	+50.355	21
27	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	20	+50.544	29
28	25	Alex Baldolini	Suter	20	+1:04.879	31
29	39	Robertino Pietri	Suter	20	+1:09.672	30
30	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Moriwaki	20	+1:09.781	36
31	45	Scott Redding	Suter	20	+1:23.743	10
32	96	Nasser Al Malki	Moriwaki	20	+1:39.105	39
Ret	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	FTR	10	Accident	27
Ret	49	Kev Coghlan	FTR	6	Accident	33
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	4	Accident	2
Ret	64	Santiago Hernández	FTR	4	Accident	32
Ret	13	Anthony West	MZ-RE Honda	4	Accident	37
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	FTR	3	Accident	13
Ret	95	Mashel Al Naimi	Moriwaki	0	Accident	38

125 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	18	38:28.687	1	25
2	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	18	+7.710	2	20
3	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	18	+9.147	4	16
4	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	18	+9.514	3	13
5	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	18	+9.698	6	11
6	5	Johann Zarco	Derbi	18	+15.260	7	10
7	23	Alberto Moncayo	Aprilia	18	+15.352	8	9
8	39	Luis Salom	Aprilia	18	+15.696	10	8
9	25	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	18	+15.910	9	7
10	44	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	18	+27.396	12	6
11	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	18	+42.563	5	5
12	53	Jasper Iwema	Aprilia	18	+43.772	21	4
13	52	Danny Kent	Aprilia	18	+44.001	13	3
14	15	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	18	+44.272	14	2
15	96	Louis Rossi	Aprilia	18	+50.030	11	1
16	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	18	+50.424	23
17	31	Niklas Ajo	Aprilia	18	+1:01.545	16
18	17	Taylor Mackenzie	Aprilia	18	+1:02.931	20
19	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Derbi	18	+1:05.192	17
20	3	Luigi Morciano	Aprilia	18	+1:05.273	19
21	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	18	+1:05.396	22
22	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Aprilia	18	+1:12.458	24
23	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Aprilia	18	+1:30.629	26
24	12	Daniel Kartheininger	KTM	18	+1:30.792	29
25	21	Harry Stafford	Aprilia	18	+1:30.798	28
26	30	Giulian Pedone	Aprilia	18	+1:54.387	27
27	43	Francesco Mauriello	Aprilia	18	+1:54.548	30
28	26	Adrián Martín	Aprilia	14	+4 Laps	15
Ret	36	Joan Perelló	Aprilia	9	Retirement	25
Ret	76	Hiroki Ono	KTM	7	Retirement	18
DNQ	69	Sarath Kumar	Aprilia		Did not qualify

References

1. "Casey Stoner wins opening MotoGP of the season in Qatar". BBC Sport. 2011-03-20. Archived from the original on 1 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-23.

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 2011-03-20.