2014 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

  2014 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 18 of 18 races in the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	9 November 2014
Official name	Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha
Time	1:30.843
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	1:31.515 on lap 8
Podium
First	Marc Márquez	Honda
Second	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha
Third	Dani Pedrosa	Honda
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Time	1:35.199
Fastest lap
Rider	Thomas Lüthi	Suter
Time	1:35.312 on lap 18
Podium
First	Thomas Lüthi	Suter
Second	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Third	Johann Zarco	Caterham Suter
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM
Time	1:39.183
Fastest lap
Rider	Efrén Vázquez	Honda
Time	1:39.400 on lap 7
Podium
First	Jack Miller	KTM
Second	Isaac Viñales	KTM
Third	Álex Márquez	Honda

The 2014 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and last round of the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 9 November 2014.

In the MotoGP class, Valentino Rossi took his first pole position since the 2010 French Grand Prix. However, it was Marc Márquez who won the race, taking his thirteenth victory of the season,^[1] surpassing the previous premier class record of twelve wins set by Mick Doohan in 1997. Rossi crossed the line in second place to take the runner-up spot in the championship, while the podium was completed by Dani Pedrosa.^[2] Further down the order, Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Iannone took the decision to swap bikes – on lap 20 – as light rain fell. Both riders struggled to get the bike stopped in the uncertain conditions and dropped down the order; Iannone finished 22nd, while Lorenzo retired from the race. The Suzuki MotoGP team returned to the series in a wildcard appearance, ahead of a full-season entry in 2015. Utilising the new Suzuki GSX-RR, Randy de Puniet retired from the race before the halfway mark. Drive M7 Aspar rider, Hiroshi Aoyama, rode an Open-specification Honda RC213V-RS and finished in fifteenth place.

In the Moto2 race, Thomas Lüthi took his second victory of the season,^[3] after capitalising on a mistake by the world champion, Esteve Rabat, on the final lap to take the spoils. Rabat had been leading the race before missing a gear coming out of the final corner, and Lüthi was able to prevail by 0.133 seconds at the line. Rabat's second place did however, seal a record number of points scored for an intermediate class season.^[4] Johann Zarco completed the podium in third place,^[3] his fourth podium of the season. Aside from the race honours, the runner-up position in the final championship standings was decided by virtue of a collision between the two competitors battling for the position. Rabat's team-mate Mika Kallio and Maverick Viñales both retired from the race, thus giving Kallio the position by 15 points.

The world title was decided in the final Moto3 race of the season, with a third-place finish for Álex Márquez enough to give him his first world title by two points, despite his title rival Jack Miller winning the race. In the process, he and his brother Marc Márquez became the first brothers to win world motorcycle racing titles.^[5][6] Splitting the title rivals in the finishing order was Isaac Viñales, taking his third podium of the season.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	30	46:39.627	5	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	30	+3.516	1	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	30	+14.040	3	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	30	+16.705	9	13
5	35	Cal Crutchlow	Ducati	30	+16.773	8	11
6	44	Pol Espargaró	Yamaha	30	+37.884	6	10
7	41	Aleix Espargaró	Forward Yamaha	30	+38.168	11	9
8	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	30	+41.803	10	8
9	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati	30	+45.710	12	7
10	45	Scott Redding	Honda	30	+51.191	14	6
11	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	30	+56.512	17	5
12	9	Danilo Petrucci	ART	30	+57.000	21	4
13	69	Nicky Hayden	Honda	30	+57.262	16	3
14	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	30	+57.517	7	2
15	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	30	+58.775	18	1
16	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	30	+58.864	13
17	17	Karel Abraham	Honda	30	+1:02.389	23
18	15	Alex de Angelis	Forward Yamaha	30	+1:15.795	19
19	70	Michael Laverty	PBM	30	+1:26.309	22
20	23	Broc Parkes	PBM	30	+1:37.212	24
21	63	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia	29	+1 lap	25
22	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	29	+1 lap	2
Ret	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	24	Retirement	4
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Suzuki	12	Retirement	20
Ret	68	Yonny Hernández	Ducati	9	Retirement	15
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	27	43:08.366	4	25
2	53	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	27	+0.133	1	20
3	5	Johann Zarco	Caterham Suter	27	+10.728	2	16
4	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	27	+13.014	10	13
5	19	Xavier Siméon	Suter	27	+13.689	5	11
6	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	27	+14.706	11	10
7	22	Sam Lowes	Speed Up	27	+18.825	14	9
8	23	Marcel Schrötter	Tech 3	27	+30.185	6	8
9	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	27	+30.227	23	7
10	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Suter	27	+30.604	17	6
11	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	27	+30.615	25	5
12	88	Ricard Cardús	Tech 3	27	+33.422	20	4
13	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	27	+33.594	7	3
14	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	27	+33.997	22	2
15	96	Louis Rossi	Kalex	27	+34.007	15	1
16	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	27	+35.578	19
17	70	Robin Mulhauser	Suter	27	+35.691	26
18	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	27	+46.996	29
19	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Caterham Suter	27	+50.650	28
20	44	Roberto Rolfo	Suter	27	+51.877	30
21	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	27	+52.808	3
22	4	Randy Krummenacher	Suter	27	+53.428	21
23	20	Florian Marino	Kalex	27	+53.435	27
24	8	Gino Rea	Suter	27	+1:07.704	32
25	97	Román Ramos	Speed Up	27	+1:13.613	33
26	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	NTS	27	+1:14.977	35
27	25	Azlan Shah	Kalex	27	+1:15.138	34
28	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Kalex	25	+2 laps	31
Ret	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	7	Retirement	18
Ret	90	Lucas Mahias	Transfiormers	4	Accident	24
Ret	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	2	Accident	12
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	2	Accident	13
Ret	40	Maverick Viñales	Kalex	2	Retirement	8
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	0	Accident	9
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	0	Accident	16
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	8	Jack Miller	KTM	24	40:10.983	2	25
2	32	Isaac Viñales	KTM	24	+0.155	4	20
3	12	Álex Márquez	Honda	24	+0.955	3	16
4	52	Danny Kent	Husqvarna	24	+1.572	11	13
5	42	Álex Rins	Honda	24	+2.251	5	11
6	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	24	+2.508	9	10
7	23	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM	24	+3.620	1	9
8	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	24	+4.216	17	8
9	41	Brad Binder	Mahindra	24	+4.248	16	7
10	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	24	+4.363	6	6
11	33	Enea Bastianini	KTM	24	+5.462	21	5
12	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	24	+5.780	15	4
13	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	24	+5.959	12	3
14	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	24	+6.209	14	2
15	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	Kalex KTM	24	+6.726	10	1
16	21	Francesco Bagnaia	KTM	24	+11.775	20
17	17	John McPhee	Honda	24	+16.663	8
18	16	Andrea Migno	Mahindra	24	+24.919	13
19	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Honda	24	+28.038	26
20	13	Jasper Iwema	Mahindra	24	+28.404	23
21	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	24	+28.490	19
22	43	Luca Grünwald	Kalex KTM	24	+40.773	28
23	38	Hafiq Azmi	KTM	24	+40.784	24
24	4	Gabriel Ramos	Kalex KTM	24	+49.329	34
25	3	Matteo Ferrari	Mahindra	24	+49.355	27
26	55	Andrea Locatelli	Mahindra	24	+52.862	30
27	6	María Herrera	Honda	24	+52.879	31
28	14	Albert Arenas	KTM	24	+1:29.792	22
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	Husqvarna	20	Accident	7
Ret	99	Jorge Navarro	Kalex KTM	9	Accident	18
Ret	9	Scott Deroue	Kalex KTM	8	Retirement	33
Ret	95	Jules Danilo	Mahindra	7	Accident	29
Ret	91	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	1	Accident	25
Ret	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	1	Accident	32
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

References

1. "Marquez ends season in style with record 13th victory". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
2. "Another double podium marks end of successful season for Repsol Honda". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
3. "Luthi takes the win at final round as Rabat slows on finish straight". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
4. Lewis, Lisa (9 November 2014). "Trouble for Rabat gifts Luthi surprise win". Crash.net (Crash Media Group). Retrieved 28 December 2014.
5. "Alex Marquez – a new World Champion in the family". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
6. "Marquez clinches title in third as Miller wins final race". MotoGP.com (Dorna Sports). 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

External links

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 26 October 2014.