2013 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas

  2013 Grand Prix of the Americas

Race details
Race 2 of 18 races in the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	21 April 2013
Official name	Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas
Location	Circuit of the Americas
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.513 km (3.426 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	2:03.021
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	2:04.242 on lap 3
Podium
First	Marc Márquez	Honda
Second	Dani Pedrosa	Honda
Third	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Scott Redding	Kalex
Time	2:10.577
Fastest lap
Rider	Nicolás Terol	Suter
Time	2:11.742 on lap 6
Podium
First	Nicolás Terol	Suter
Second	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Third	Mika Kallio	Kalex
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Álex Rins	KTM
Time	2:16.396
Fastest lap
Rider	Luis Salom	KTM
Time	2:16.345 on lap 7
Podium
First	Álex Rins	KTM
Second	Maverick Viñales	KTM
Third	Luis Salom	KTM

The 2013 Grand Prix of the Americas was the second round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on 21 April 2013. This was the first GP race at the circuit.

Marc Márquez won his first MotoGP race, in which was only his second race in the top level, and became the youngest ever rider to win a MotoGP race.

It was the first GP from 1982 Swedish Grand Prix where in three categories were three new winners: in Anderstorp Iván Palazzese (125 cm³), Roland Freymond (250 cm³) and Takazumi Katayama (500 cm³) won.^[1]

Classification

MotoGP

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	21	43:42.123	1	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	21	+1.534	2	20
3	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	21	+3.381	3	16
4	35	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	21	+6.616	4	13
5	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	21	+12.674	5	11
6	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	21	+16.615	8	10
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	21	+22.374	6	9
8	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	21	+22.854	7	8
9	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	21	+33.773	10	7
10	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	21	+42.112	13	6
11	41	Aleix Espargaró	ART	21	+48.837	9	5
12	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	21	+50.705	11	4
13	11	Ben Spies	Ducati	21	+1:14.132	12	3
14	14	Randy de Puniet	ART	21	+1:15.651	14	2
15	68	Yonny Hernández	ART	21	+1:19.591	16	1
16	70	Michael Laverty	PBM	21	+1:34.391	17
17	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	FTR	21	+1:39.823	21
18	8	Héctor Barberá	FTR	21	+1:39.952	15
19	71	Claudio Corti	FTR Kawasaki	21	+1:46.773	19
20	67	Bryan Staring	FTR Honda	21	+1:48.084	22
21	79	Blake Young	APR	20	+1 lap	24
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ioda-Suter	13	Retirement	20
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Ioda-Suter	13	Accident	23
Ret	5	Colin Edwards	FTR Kawasaki	11	Retirement	18
DNS	17	Karel Abraham	ART	0	Did not start
DNQ	44	Mike Barnes	BCL	0	Did not qualify
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	19	42:02.689	3	25
2	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	19	+3.125	4	20
3	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	19	+3.175	9	16
4	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	19	+4.873	5	13
5	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	19	+5.597	1	11
6	5	Johann Zarco	Suter	19	+9.295	17	10
7	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Up	19	+14.472	24	9
8	15	Alex de Angelis	Speed Up	19	+16.051	25	8
9	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	19	+19.696	16	7
10	63	Mike Di Meglio	Motobi	19	+20.107	18	6
11	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	19	+23.287	14	5
12	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	19	+23.547	8	4
13	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	19	+23.815	12	3
14	88	Ricard Cardús	Speed Up	19	+33.488	22	2
15	3	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	19	+35.424	6	1
16	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	19	+35.532	21
17	52	Danny Kent	Tech 3	19	+42.451	13
18	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	19	+44.314	26
19	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	19	+44.688	10
20	9	Kyle Smith	Kalex	19	+58.964	19
21	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	19	+59.940	23
22	44	Steven Odendaal	Speed Up	19	+1:00.107	30
23	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	19	+1:00.702	27
24	7	Doni Tata Pradita	Suter	19	+1:08.996	29
25	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	19	+1:24.281	20
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	19	(+9.440)[2]	11
Ret	4	Randy Krummenacher	Suter	9	Accident	15
Ret	97	Rafid Topan Sucipto	Speed Up	7	Retirement	31
Ret	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	6	Retirement	2
Ret	17	Alberto Moncayo	Speed Up	6	Retirement	28
Ret	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	3	Accident	7
DNS	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	0	Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	42	Álex Rins	KTM	5	11:26.535	1	25
2	25	Maverick Viñales	KTM	5	+0.244	3	20
3	39	Luis Salom	KTM	5	+0.547	2	16
4	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	5	+1.230	5	13
5	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	5	+8.276	18	11
6	8	Jack Miller	FTR Honda	5	+8.603	4	10
7	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	5	+10.147	12	9
8	10	Alexis Masbou	FTR Honda	5	+12.037	9	8
9	41	Brad Binder	Suter Honda	5	+12.263	14	7
10	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Kalex KTM	5	+12.737	13	6
11	99	Danny Webb	Suter Honda	5	+13.221	8	5
12	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	5	+14.030	10	4
13	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	5	+15.822	11	3
14	7	Efrén Vázquez	Mahindra	5	+16.593	15	2
15	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	5	+21.094	7	1
16	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	TSR Honda	5	+21.205	27
17	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	5	+21.351	25
18	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Honda	5	+21.599	16
19	3	Matteo Ferrari	FTR Honda	5	+21.772	30
20	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	5	+22.003	26
21	17	John McPhee	FTR Honda	5	+23.267	28
22	4	Francesco Bagnaia	FTR Honda	5	+30.965	31
23	57	Eric Granado	Kalex KTM	5	+31.591	20
Ret	77	Lorenzo Baldassarri	FTR Honda	2	Accident	29
Ret	12	Álex Márquez	KTM	2	Retirement	6
Ret	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Kalex KTM	0	Accident	22
Ret	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	0	Did not restart	17
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	Kalex KTM	Retired during the initial part of the race.^1		19
Ret	66	Florian Alt	Kalex KTM			21
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda			23
Ret	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda			24
DNS	29	Hyuga Watanabe	Honda	0	Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Notes:

• ^1 — The Moto3 race was stopped after ten laps and restarted over a distance of five laps.

Championship standings after the race

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Márquez 41 2 Jorge Lorenzo 41 3 Dani Pedrosa 33 4 Valentino Rossi 30 5 Cal Crutchlow 24

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 41 2 Yamaha 41 3 Ducati 18 4 ART 10 5 FTR 3

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

1. "Spanyol Nagydíj: Programfüzet". SilverMike (in Hungarian) (motorsportal.hu). 2 May 2013. Retrieved 5 May 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 22 April 2013.