2012 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix

  2012 Qatar Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 April 2012
Official name	Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar
Location	Losail Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.380 km (3.343 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Time	1:54.634
Fastest lap
Rider	Casey Stoner	Honda
Time	1:55.541
Podium
First	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Second	Dani Pedrosa	Honda
Third	Casey Stoner	Honda
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Thomas Lüthi	Suter
Time	2:00.187
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez	Suter
Time	2:00.645
Podium
First	Marc Márquez	Suter
Second	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up
Third	Pol Espargaró	Kalex
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Sandro Cortese	KTM
Time	2:08.188
Fastest lap
Rider	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda
Time	2:07.276
Podium
First	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda
Second	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda
Third	Sandro Cortese	KTM

The 2012 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2012 MotoGP season. It was held at the Losail International Circuit near Doha in Qatar on 8 April 2012.^[1] Contested over twenty-two laps, the race was the first appearance of the 1000cc MotoGP-class motorcycles introduced for 2012,^[2] and the debut of the 125cc replacement class, Moto3.^[3]

Classification

MotoGP

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	22	42:44.214	1	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	22	+0.852	7	20
3	1	Casey Stoner	Honda	22	+2.908	2	16
4	35	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	22	+17.114	3	13
5	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Yamaha	22	+17.420	6	11
6	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	22	+28.413	5	10
7	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	22	+28.446	11	9
8	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	22	+29.464	9	8
9	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	22	+31.384	8	7
10	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati	22	+33.665	12	6
11	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha	22	+56.907	4	5
12	5	Colin Edwards	Suter	22	+58.088	13	4
13	14	Randy de Puniet	ART	22	+1:10.650	14	3
14	68	Yonny Hernández	BQR-FTR	22	+1:15.943	16	2
15	41	Aleix Espargaró	ART	22	+1:26.733	15	1
16	22	Iván Silva	BQR-FTR	22	+1:43.327	20
17	54	Mattia Pasini	ART	22	+1:47.419	18
18	77	James Ellison	ART	22	+1:51.882	21
NC	51	Michele Pirro	FTR	15	+7 laps	17
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ioda	15	Retirement	19
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	7	Retirement	10
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	20	40:34.225	2	25
2	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	20	+0.061	3	20
3	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	20	+1.412	4	16
4	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	20	+1.639	7	13
5	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	20	+3.981	1	11
6	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	20	+6.768	13	10
7	63	Mike Di Meglio	Speed Up	20	+6.794	5	9
8	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	20	+6.986	10	8
9	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	20	+10.828	12	7
10	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	20	+11.379	14	6
11	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	20	+12.750	21	5
12	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	20	+14.121	19	4
13	24	Toni Elías	Suter	20	+17.634	17	3
14	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	20	+17.875	9	2
15	60	Julián Simón	FTR	20	+17.894	11	1
16	71	Claudio Corti	Kalex	20	+19.014	8
17	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	20	+19.114	18
18	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	20	+28.802	16
19	72	Yuki Takahashi	Suter	20	+36.598	25
20	47	Ángel Rodríguez	FTR	20	+36.738	22
21	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Moriwaki	20	+37.147	28
22	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	20	+37.443	24
23	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	20	+39.523	26
24	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	20	+45.260	23
25	95	Anthony West	Moriwaki	20	+53.786	29
26	8	Gino Rea	Moriwaki	20	+54.008	27
27	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	20	+1:19.054	31
28	7	Alexander Lundh	MZ FTR	20	+1:19.071	30
29	82	Elena Rosell	Moriwaki	20	+1:35.150	32
30	76	Max Neukirchner	Kalex	19	+1 lap	6
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Suter	18	Accident	15
Ret	96	Nasser Al Malki	Moriwaki	10	Retirement	33
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	Suter	3	Retirement	20
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	18	38:40.995	2	25
2	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	18	+4.301	6	20
3	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	18	+18.013	1	16
4	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	18	+18.200	4	13
5	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	18	+18.745	8	11
6	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	18	+19.052	7	10
7	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	18	+35.940	9	9
8	52	Danny Kent	KTM	18	+21.098	12	8
9	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	18	+21.153	3	7
10	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	18	+28.733	13	6
11	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	18	+29.775	18	5
12	55	Héctor Faubel	Kalex KTM	18	+29.813	16	4
13	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	18	+35.940	5	3
14	23	Alberto Moncayo	Kalex KTM	18	+35.983	14	2
15	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	18	+38.641	19	1
16	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	18	+40.219	21
17	27	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	18	+50.629	20
18	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	18	+54.751	25
19	21	Iván Moreno	FTR Honda	18	+54.989	22
20	26	Adrián Martín	Honda	18	+54.989	24
21	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	18	+1:21.239	28
22	15	Simone Grotzkyj	Oral	18	+1:35.791	29
23	9	Toni Finsterbusch	MZ-RE Honda	18	+1:41.291	31
24	53	Jasper Iwema	FGR Honda	18	+1:54.293	17
25	8	Jack Miller	Honda	17	+1 lap	26
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Ioda	11	Retirement	32
Ret	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	7	Retirement	30
Ret	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	6	Retirement	15
Ret	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	5	Retirement	23
Ret	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	0	Accident	10
Ret	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	0	Accident	11
Ret	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	0	Retirement	27
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

References

1. "FIM announce changes to 2012 MotoGP calendar". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 14 December 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
2. "MotoGP changes for 2012". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 11 December 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
3. Birt, Matthew (29 June 2010). "Moto3 to replace 125GP class in 2012". Motor Cycle News (Bauer Media Group). Retrieved 7 April 2012.

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 7 April 2012.