2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

  2013 Catalan Grand Prix

Race details
Race 6 of 18 races in the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 June 2013
Official name	Gran Premi Aperol de Catalunya
Location	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.727 km (2.937 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Dani Pedrosa	Honda
Time	1:40.893
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	1:42.552 on lap 3
Podium
First	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Second	Dani Pedrosa	Honda
Third	Marc Márquez	Honda
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Pol Espargaró	Kalex
Time	1:46.410
Fastest lap
Rider	Thomas Lüthi	Suter
Time	1:46.960 on lap 5
Podium
First	Pol Espargaró	Kalex
Second	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Third	Thomas Lüthi	Suter
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Luis Salom	KTM
Time	1:50.782
Fastest lap
Rider	Maverick Viñales	KTM
Time	1:51.475 on lap 20
Podium
First	Luis Salom	KTM
Second	Álex Rins	KTM
Third	Maverick Viñales	KTM

The 2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona on 16 June 2013.

Report

Dani Pedrosa took his second consecutive MotoGP pole position ahead of Cal Crutchlow and Jorge Lorenzo. Pedrosa set a new circuit record for MotoGP with a 1:40.893, which beat his former team mate Casey Stoner's record of 1:41.186 set in 2008. Lorenzo went on to win the race, ahead of pole sitter Pedrosa, and Marc Márquez. Valentino Rossi finished in fourth place, after the collision with Álvaro Bautista in Italy.

Turn 10, a right hander after the back straight, had caught out many riders due to the hot temperatures on race day and caused many retirements during the first few laps of the race.

In Moto2, Pol Espargaró took pole position, and went on to win the race, ahead of Esteve Rabat and Switzerland's Thomas Lüthi, who took his first podium of the season.

In Moto3, Luis Salom took his second successive victory from pole position, ahead of Álex Rins and Maverick Viñales.

Classification

MotoGP

Hiroshi Aoyama was replaced by Javier del Amor after the third practice session.^[1]

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	25	43:06.479	3	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	25	+1.763	1	20
3	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	25	+1.826	6	16
4	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	25	+5.874	7	13
5	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	25	+26.756	10	11
6	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	25	+32.228	11	10
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	25	+32.692	9	9
8	41	Aleix Espargaró	ART	25	+58.615	12	8
9	5	Colin Edwards	FTR Kawasaki	25	+1:03.142	16	7
10	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati	25	+1:09.774	14	6
11	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ioda-Suter	25	+1:24.377	18	5
12	71	Claudio Corti	FTR Kawasaki	25	+1:33.679	19	4
13	68	Yonny Hernández	ART	25	+1:45.355	21	3
14	67	Bryan Staring	FTR Honda	25	+1:50.745	22	2
15	77	Javier del Amor	FTR	24	+1 lap	24	1
16	52	Lukáš Pešek	Ioda-Suter	24	+1 lap	23
Ret	8	Héctor Barberá	FTR	15	Accident	15
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	ART	10	Engine	17
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	5	Accident	2
Ret	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	5	Accident	5
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	4	Accident	8
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	ART	1	Engine	13
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	0	Accident	4
Ret	70	Michael Laverty	PBM	0	Accident	20
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	23	41:17.307	1	25
2	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	23	+0.081	3	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	23	+6.264	10	16
4	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	23	+9.061	2	13
5	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	+10.597	4	11
6	4	Randy Krummenacher	Suter	23	+11.577	8	10
7	5	Johann Zarco	Suter	23	+15.569	6	9
8	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	23	+28.280	14	8
9	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	23	+28.352	12	7
10	3	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	23	+28.461	15	6
11	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Up	23	+28.892	11	5
12	63	Mike Di Meglio	Motobi	23	+31.215	24	4
13	52	Danny Kent	Tech 3	23	+31.318	17	3
14	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	23	+31.757	29	2
15	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	23	+33.190	16	1
16	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	23	+34.092	20
17	9	Kyle Smith	Kalex	23	+44.392	18
18	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	23	+48.517	27
19	27	Dani Rivas	Kalex	23	+48.563	32
20	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	23	+48.719	22
21	17	Alberto Moncayo	Speed Up	23	+53.765	31
22	7	Doni Tata Pradita	Suter	23	+1:13.330	33
23	88	Ricard Cardús	Speed Up	23	+1:21.740	26
Ret	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	22	Accident	28
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	18	(Retirement)[2]	25
Ret	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	17	Accident	7
Ret	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	17	Retirement	13
Ret	97	Rafid Topan Sucipto	Speed Up	9	Accident	34
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	7	Retirement	9
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Speed Up	7	Retirement	5
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	2	Accident	19
Ret	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	1	Retirement	21
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	0	Accident	23
Ret	44	Steven Odendaal	Speed Up	0	Accident	30
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	39	Luis Salom	KTM	22	41:15.331	1	25
2	42	Álex Rins	KTM	22	+0.211	2	20
3	25	Maverick Viñales	KTM	22	+0.634	5	16
4	12	Álex Márquez	KTM	22	+3.993	4	13
5	7	Efrén Vázquez	Mahindra	22	+6.243	6	11
6	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	22	+9.295	3	10
7	8	Jack Miller	FTR Honda	22	+13.164	8	9
8	10	Alexis Masbou	FTR Honda	22	+21.174	10	8
9	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	22	+21.240	16	7
10	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	22	+21.598	11	6
11	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	22	+21.726	7	5
12	41	Brad Binder	Suter Honda	22	+21.756	12	4
13	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	22	+21.828	15	3
14	99	Danny Webb	Suter Honda	22	+21.879	21	2
15	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	22	+22.071	22	1
16	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	22	+22.218	14
17	4	Francesco Bagnaia	FTR Honda	22	+28.119	32
18	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	22	+34.915	27
19	17	John McPhee	FTR Honda	22	+34.948	20
20	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	TSR Honda	22	+35.026	24
21	77	Lorenzo Baldassarri	FTR Honda	22	+35.110	18
22	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	22	+35.352	28
23	29	Hyuga Watanabe	FTR Honda	22	+46.632	29
24	3	Matteo Ferrari	FTR Honda	22	+46.733	30
25	16	Andrea Migno	FTR	22	+46.776	31
26	57	Eric Granado	Kalex KTM	22	+1:12.896	25
27	86	Kevin Hanus	Honda	22	+1:29.331	33
Ret	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Kalex KTM	12	Retirement	17
Ret	11	Livio Loi	Kalex KTM	4	Accident	13
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	3	Accident	9
Ret	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Kalex KTM	0	Accident	19
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	0	Accident	23
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	Kalex KTM	0	Accident	26
DNS	66	Florian Alt	Kalex KTM		Did not start
DNS	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

References

1. "Catalunya MotoGP: Pedrosa takes his turn at the top in FP4". Crash.net (Crash Media Group). 15 June 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
2. "Doping – Decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of rider Anthony West" (PDF). v2-fim-live.com. Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. 28 November 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2015. [...] all the sporting results obtained by Anthony West from 20 May 2012 up to the expiry of the period of ineligibility (i.e. 19 October 2013) will be invalidated.

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 6 June 2013.