2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

2009 Italian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 5 of 17 races in the; 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	31 May 2009
Official name	Gran Premio d'Italia Alice
Location	Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.245 km (3.259 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo
Time	1:48.987
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:51.186
Podium
First	Casey Stoner
Second	Jorge Lorenzo
Third	Valentino Rossi
250cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Álvaro Bautista
Time	1:52.804
Fastest lap
Rider	Marco Simoncelli
Time	2:05.830
Podium
First	Mattia Pasini
Second	Marco Simoncelli
Third	Álvaro Bautista
125cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Bradley Smith
Time	1:58.134
Fastest lap
Rider	Julián Simón
Time	1:58.744
Podium
First	Bradley Smith
Second	Nicolás Terol
Third	Julián Simón

The 2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 29–31 May 2009 at the Mugello Circuit. The Moto GP race was won by Casey Stoner with Jorge Lorenzo second and Valentino Rossi in third place.^[4] This broke Rossi's sequence of seven consecutive victories at this event. During the weekend, Dani Pedrosa recorded the fastest speed ever for a motorcycle grand prix bike, with 349.3 km/h (217.0 mph) breaking Makoto Tamada's record of 343.7 km/h (213.6 mph) set in 2006.^[5] Mika Kallio and Rossi also recorded speeds above the previous benchmark.

Date31 May 2009

Official nameGran Premio d'Italia Alice^[1]^[2]^[3]

LocationAutodromo Internazionale del Mugello

Course

Permanent racing facility
5.245 km (3.259 mi)

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Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	23	45:41.894	2	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+1.001	1	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	23	+2.076	4	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+2.129	7	13
5	65	Loris Capirossi	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	23	+3.274	3	11
6	5	Colin Edwards	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	+24.451	6	10
7	52	James Toseland	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	+25.621	14	9
8	14	Randy de Puniet	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	23	+26.046	5	8
9	88	Niccolò Canepa	Pramac Racing	Ducati	23	+31.815	13	7
10	7	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	23	+34.814	11	6
11	33	Marco Melandri	Hayate Racing Team	Kawasaki	23	+35.090	15	5
12	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	23	+39.122	16	4
13	36	Mika Kallio	Pramac Racing	Ducati	23	+52.462	17	3
14	24	Toni Elías	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	23	+52.478	9	2
15	15	Alex de Angelis	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+1 lap	12	1
Ret	3	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	12	Accident	8
Ret	72	Yuki Takahashi	Scot Racing Team MotoGP	Honda	10	Accident	10
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Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	21	45:38.391	8	25
2	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	21	+0.117	2	20
3	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	21	+1.293	1	16
4	12	Thomas Lüthi	Aprilia	21	+24.557	6	13
5	40	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	21	+27.014	3	11
6	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	21	+30.037	4	10
7	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	21	+31.325	5	9
8	55	Héctor Faubel	Honda	21	+35.178	13	8
9	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Honda	21	+44.856	9	7
10	15	Roberto Locatelli	Gilera	21	+46.483	10	6
11	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	21	+49.521	17	5
12	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	21	+1:00.539	14	4
13	17	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	21	+1:23.730	11	3
14	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Honda	21	+1:25.519	7	2
15	10	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	21	+1:30.397	18	1
16	11	Balázs Németh	Aprilia	20	+1 lap	22
17	7	Axel Pons	Aprilia	20	+1 lap	18
18	8	Bastien Chesaux	Honda	20	+1 lap	24
19	53	Valentin Debise	Honda	20	+1 lap	20
20	37	Daniel Arcas	Aprilia	18	+3 laps	23
Ret	48	Shoya Tomizawa	Honda	6	Accident	16
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Aprilia	5	Accident	15
Ret	56	Vladimir Leonov	Aprilia	4	Retirement	21
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	0	Accident	12
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	20	40:09.523	1	25
2	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	20	+0.216	12	20
3	60	Julián Simón	Aprilia	20	+7.114	3	16
4	44	Pol Espargaró	Derbi	20	+11.829	8	13
5	93	Marc Márquez	KTM	20	+12.315	5	11
6	14	Johann Zarco	Aprilia	20	+14.605	7	10
7	45	Scott Redding	Aprilia	20	+15.305	2	9
8	17	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	20	+22.255	19	8
9	32	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	20	+22.392	20	7
10	11	Sandro Cortese	Derbi	20	+29.239	9	6
11	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	20	+36.359	4	5
12	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	20	+36.444	16	4
13	35	Randy Krummenacher	Aprilia	20	+36.507	13	3
14	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	20	+36.581	23	2
15	73	Takaaki Nakagami	Aprilia	20	+36.636	22	1
16	12	Esteve Rabat	Aprilia	20	+36.834	14
17	61	Luigi Morciano	Aprilia	20	+49.870	24
18	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	20	+50.419	11
19	77	Dominique Aegerter	Derbi	20	+1:05.900	18
20	51	Riccardo Moretti	Aprilia	20	+1:06.019	21
21	64	Davide Stirpe	Honda	20	+1:20.225	26
22	69	Lukáš Šembera	Aprilia	20	+1:21.946	25
23	53	Jasper Iwema	Honda	20	+1:43.074	30
24	63	Gennaro Sabatino	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	29
25	10	Luca Vitali	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	33
26	62	Alessandro Tonucci	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	27
Ret	87	Luca Marconi	Aprilia	12	Retirement	32
Ret	99	Danny Webb	Aprilia	8	Accident	10
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	5	Retirement	6
Ret	6	Joan Olivé	Derbi	5	Accident	17
Ret	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	5	Accident	15
Ret	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Loncin	2	Retirement	28
Ret	5	Alexis Masbou	Loncin	1	Retirement	31
DNQ	5	Cameron Beaubier	KTM		Did not qualify
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

MotoGP classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

References

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