2016 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

  2016 Japanese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 15 of 18 races in the 2016 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 October 2016
Official name	Motul Grand Prix of Japan
Location	Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, Japan
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha
Time	1:43.954
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	1:45.576 on lap 6
Podium
First	Marc Márquez	Honda
Second	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati
Third	Maverick Viñales	Suzuki
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Johann Zarco	Kalex
Time	1:49.961
Fastest lap
Rider	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex
Time	1:50.788 on lap 3
Podium
First	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex
Second	Johann Zarco	Kalex
Third	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Hiroki Ono[N 1]	Honda
Time	1:56.443
Fastest lap
Rider	Nicolò Bulega	KTM
Time	1:57.218 on lap 5
Podium
First	Enea Bastianini	Honda
Second	Brad Binder	KTM
Third	Nicolò Bulega	KTM

The 2016 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 16 October 2016. In the MotoGP class, both factory Yamaha riders crashed out of the race, thus marking their first double retirement since the 2011 British Grand Prix.

Classification

MotoGP

With Andrea Iannone still recovering from the injuries sustained at Misano, he was replaced in the factory Ducati team by Héctor Barberá. Australian Superbike rider Mike Jones made his MotoGP debut filling in for Barbera at Avintia Racing.^[1]

Dani Pedrosa suffered a broken collarbone in a crash during Friday practice and was replaced by Honda test rider Hiroshi Aoyama for the rest of the weekend.^[2]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	24	42:34.610	2	25
2	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	24	+2.992	4	20
3	25	Maverick Viñales	Suzuki	24	+4.104	7	16
4	41	Aleix Espargaró	Suzuki	24	+4.726	6	13
5	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	24	+15.049	5	11
6	44	Pol Espargaró	Yamaha	24	+19.654	9	10
7	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+23.032	12	9
8	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	24	+28.555	10	8
9	45	Scott Redding	Ducati	24	+28.802	11	7
10	6	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	24	+32.330	13	6
11	21	Katsuyuki Nakasuga	Yamaha	24	+42.845	16	5
12	68	Yonny Hernández	Ducati	24	+52.219	17	4
13	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	24	+53.783	15	3
14	53	Esteve Rabat	Honda	24	+54.760	18	2
15	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	24	+1:00.155	22	1
16	76	Loris Baz	Ducati	24	+1:04.440	20
17	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	24	+1:42.966	8
18	7	Mike Jones	Ducati	23	+1 lap	21
Ret	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	19	Accident	3
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	6	Accident	1
Ret	43	Jack Miller	Honda	6	Accident	14
Ret	50	Eugene Laverty	Ducati	2	Accident	19
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	23	42:45.854	2	25
2	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	23	+0.386	1	20
3	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	23	+5.863	3	16
4	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	+6.090	7	13
5	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	23	+16.246	5	11
6	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	23	+20.404	13	10
7	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	23	+20.683	10	9
8	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	23	+20.760	16	8
9	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	23	+24.394	11	7
10	19	Xavier Siméon	Speed Up	23	+27.113	17	6
11	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	23	+30.158	18	5
12	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	23	+32.283	26	4
13	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	23	+32.391	12	3
14	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	23	+35.348	24	2
15	32	Isaac Viñales	Tech 3	23	+35.486	20	1
16	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	23	+39.558	21
17	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	23	+39.690	19
18	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Kalex	23	+45.258	25
19	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	23	+47.910	23
20	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	23	+1:04.723	22
21	63	Naomichi Uramoto	Kalex	23	+1:05.916	29
22	84	Taro Sekiguchi	TSR	23	+1:26.636	30
Ret	27	Iker Lecuona	Kalex	14	Accident Damage	28
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	13	Accident Damage	6
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	10	Accident Damage	14
Ret	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	7	Accident	8
Ret	52	Danny Kent	Kalex	7	Gear Shifter	15
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	4	Accident	9
Ret	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	1	Accident	4
Ret	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	1	Accident	27
DNS	44	Miguel Oliveira	Kalex		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

• Miguel Oliveira withdrew after the first practice session due to effects of the broken collarbone suffered at Aragon GP.

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	20	39:24.273	3	25
2	41	Brad Binder	KTM	20	+0.017	2	20
3	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	20	+4.002	5	16
4	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	20	+5.119	10	13
5	4	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	20	+6.288	18	11
6	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	20	+7.739	12	10
7	11	Livio Loi	Honda	20	+7.749	15	9
8	20	Fabio Quartararo	KTM	20	+8.344	8	8
9	36	Joan Mir	KTM	20	+8.880	14	7
10	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	20	+9.037	7	6
11	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	KTM	20	+12.332	6	5
12	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	20	+13.525	9	4
13	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Honda	20	+18.818	21	3
14	12	Albert Arenas	Peugeot	20	+21.263	13	2
15	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	20	+21.291	25	1
16	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	20	+21.727	24
17	42	Marcos Ramírez	Mahindra	20	+34.475	26
18	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	20	+39.950	27
19	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	20	+40.177	22
20	3	Fabio Spiranelli	Mahindra	20	+46.804	32
21	77	Lorenzo Petrarca	Mahindra	20	+49.085	31
22	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	20	+52.570	28
23	6	María Herrera	KTM	20	+52.682	30
24	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	20	+1:16.774	1
25	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	20	+1:22.102	20
26	13	Shizuka Okazaki	Honda	20	+1:51.623	34
DSQ	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	20	(+2.654)[N 2]	4
Ret	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	10	Rider In Pain	23
Ret	44	Arón Canet	Honda	9	Accident	17
Ret	55	Andrea Locatelli	KTM	4	Accident	29
Ret	43	Stefano Valtulini	Mahindra	3	Accident	33
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	0	Accident	11
Ret	17	John McPhee	Peugeot	0	Accident	16
Ret	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	0	Accident	19
DNS	15	Rei Sato	Honda		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Marquez 273 2 Valentino Rossi 196 3 Jorge Lorenzo 182 4 Maverick Vinales 165 5 Dani Pedrosa 155 6 Andrea Dovizioso 124 7 Cal Crutchlow 116 8 Pol Espargaro 106 9 Andrea Iannone 96 10 Hector Barbera 84 11 Aleix Espargaro 82 12 Eugene Laverty 71 13 Álvaro Bautista 63 14 Scott Redding 62 15 Danilo Petrucci 58 Notes ↑ Hiroki Ono, who set the fastest time in qualifying, received a grid penalty which promoted Andrea Migno to the pole position grid slot. ↑ Disqualified due to a technical infringement. References ↑ "Hector Barbera to replace Andrea Iannone at Motegi, Mike Jones in at Avintia". GrandPrixTimes.com. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.  ↑ "Aoyama replaces injured Pedrosa for Japan GP". uk.reuters.com. Reuters. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.  External links "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 25 September 2016.  Previous race: 2016 Aragon Grand Prix FIM Grand Prix World Championship 2016 season Next race: 2016 Australian Grand Prix Previous race: 2015 Japanese Grand Prix Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix Next race: 2017 Japanese Grand Prix