2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

  2015 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 18 of 18 races in the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 November 2015
Official name	Gran Premio Motul 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	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Time	1:30.011
Fastest lap
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Time	1:31.367 on lap 3
Podium
First	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Second	Marc Márquez	Honda
Third	Dani Pedrosa	Honda
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Time	1:35.234
Fastest lap
Rider	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Time	1:35.416 on lap 15
Podium
First	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Second	Álex Rins	Kalex
Third	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	John McPhee	Honda
Time	1:39.364
Fastest lap
Rider	Romano Fenati	KTM
Time	1:39.622 on lap 16
Podium
First	Miguel Oliveira	KTM
Second	Jorge Navarro	Honda
Third	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM

The 2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and final round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 8 November 2015.

Background

This was the last event for Bridgestone as a single tyre supplier in MotoGP, before they are replaced by Michelin for the 2016 season. This was also the last race for Nicky Hayden before joining the Superbike World Championship — the FIM named him a 22nd MotoGP Legend.

After a court trial involving Valentino Rossi's clash with Marc Márquez in the previous race, the FIM staff and CAS rejected Rossi's appeal of suspension of three penalty points given for purposely pushing Márquez wide, and declared that he would start the round from last place.

Race

Championship hopeful Jorge Lorenzo had taken pole position and took the start, and led from start to finish, closely shadowed by Honda duo Márquez and Dani Pedrosa, who were buffers preventing Rossi from reaching the second position he'd needed to become champion. Rossi fought up to fourth, but had no prospect of catching any of the three top riders and so cruised home. Lorenzo was subject to heavy pressure by the Honda riders during the final lap, but held on to claim his third MotoGP and fifth overall title.^[1]

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	30	45:59.364	1	25
2	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	30	+0.263	2	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	30	+0.654	3	16
4	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	30	+19.789	26	13
5	44	Pol Espargaró	Yamaha	30	+26.004	8	11
6	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	30	+28.835	6	10
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	30	+28.886	9	9
8	41	Aleix Espargaró	Suzuki	30	+34.222	4	8
9	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	30	+35.924	5	7
10	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	30	+39.579	10	6
11	25	Maverick Viñales	Suzuki	30	+39.746	11	5
12	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati	30	+47.053	12	4
13	68	Yonny Hernández	Ducati	30	+54.081	17	3
14	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	30	+56.646	18	2
15	45	Scott Redding	Honda	30	+57.278	19	1
16	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	30	+57.363	14
17	69	Nicky Hayden	Honda	30	+58.742	16
18	6	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	30	+59.086	13
19	76	Loris Baz	Yamaha Forward	30	+1:04.339	15
20	24	Toni Elías	Yamaha Forward	30	+1:04.413	24
21	43	Jack Miller	Honda	30	+1:05.212	20
22	13	Anthony West	Honda	30	+1:27.281	22
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Ducati	24	Retirement	21
Ret	50	Eugene Laverty	Honda	23	Retirement	23
Ret	23	Broc Parkes	ART	21	Retirement	25
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	2	Accident	7
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Dominique Aegerter was replaced by Joshua Hook after the second practice session.^[2]

The first attempt to run the race was interrupted following an accident involving multiple riders in the opening lap.^[3] For the restart, the race distance was reduced from 27 to 18 laps.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	18	28:48.831	1	25
2	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	18	+0.309	3	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	18	+3.347	4	16
4	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	18	+3.644	5	13
5	22	Sam Lowes	Speed Up	18	+5.140	10	11
6	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	18	+9.499	12	10
7	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	18	+9.834	2	9
8	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	18	+11.197	7	8
9	3	Simone Corsi	Kalex	18	+11.611	9	7
10	36	Mika Kallio	Speed Up	18	+17.311	15	6
11	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	18	+20.784	8	5
12	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	18	+21.296	14	4
13	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	18	+21.455	13	3
14	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	18	+21.560	18	2
15	23	Marcel Schrötter	Tech 3	18	+24.669	21	1
16	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	18	+28.190	23
17	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	18	+28.537	22
18	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	18	+28.762	6
19	88	Ricard Cardús	Suter	18	+29.017	17
20	66	Florian Alt	Suter	18	+29.297	19
21	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	18	+30.788	20
22	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	18	+32.028	26
23	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Kalex	18	+37.044	28
24	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	18	+37.107	27
25	32	Federico Fuligni	Suter	18	+47.239	29
26	16	Joshua Hook	Kalex	18	+47.901	30
Ret	90	Lucas Mahias	Transfiormers	13	Retirement	16
Ret	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	3	Accident	25
DNS	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	0	Did not restart	11
DNS	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	0	Did not restart	24
DNS	25	Azlan Shah	Kalex		Did not start
DNS	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	24	40:09.792	4	25
2	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	24	+0.198	5	20
3	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	24	+2.090	12	16
4	41	Brad Binder	KTM	24	+2.121	9	13
5	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	24	+2.975	6	11
6	32	Isaac Viñales	KTM	24	+3.343	13	10
7	17	John McPhee	Honda	24	+4.087	1	9
8	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	24	+9.627	10	8
9	52	Danny Kent	Honda	24	+9.914	18	7
10	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	24	+10.580	14	6
11	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	24	+10.661	15	5
12	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	24	+11.642	16	4
13	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	24	+16.741	19	3
14	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	24	+20.196	24	2
15	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	24	+21.531	20	1
16	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	24	+21.552	17
17	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	24	+21.868	21
18	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	24	+25.114	26
19	29	Stefano Manzi	Mahindra	24	+25.301	29
20	11	Livio Loi	Honda	24	+25.331	28
21	6	María Herrera	Husqvarna	24	+25.655	22
22	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Husqvarna	24	+32.973	23
23	4	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	24	+33.019	25
24	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	24	+33.549	31
25	96	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	24	+33.953	27
Ret	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	23	Accident	3
Ret	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	23	Accident	2
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	23	Accident	7
Ret	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	20	Retirement	33
Ret	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	10	Accident	8
Ret	20	Fabio Quartararo	Honda	10	Retirement	11
Ret	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	Mahindra	7	Retirement	30
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	7	Retirement	34
Ret	2	Remy Gardner	Mahindra	5	Retirement	32
DNS	91	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

References

1. "Jorge Lorenzo wins third MotoGP title with victory in Valencia finale". The Guardian. 8 November 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
2. "Hook drafted in for Valencia Moto2 race weekend". cycleonline.com.au. 7 November 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
3. "Moto2 Valencia: Rabat says farewell to Moto2 with home win". Crash.net (Crash Media Group). 8 November 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

External links

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 18 October 2015.