2012 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix

2012 Indianapolis Grand Prix
Race details
Race 11 of 18 races in the; 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	August 19, 2012
Official name	Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix
Location	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.216 km (2.620 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:38.813
Fastest lap
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:39.088
Podium
First	Dani Pedrosa
Second	Jorge Lorenzo
Third	Andrea Dovizioso
Moto2
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Pol Espargaró
Time	1:42.602
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez
Time	1:43.304
Podium
First	Marc Márquez
Second	Pol Espargaró
Third	Julián Simón
Moto3
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Sandro Cortese
Time	1:48.545
Fastest lap
Rider	Romano Fenati
Time	1:48.648
Podium
First	Luis Salom
Second	Sandro Cortese
Third	Jonas Folger

DateAugust 19, 2012

Official nameRed Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix^[1]^[2]^[3]

Course

The 2012 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix (formally the 2012 Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix)^[4] was the eleventh round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held on August 19, 2012, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana.

After being absent from the United States Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, the Moto2 and Moto3 classes returned to competition at Indianapolis.^[5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	46:39.631	1	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	28	+10.823	2	20
3	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+17.310	3	16
4	1	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+19.803	6	13
5	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	28	+22.556	8	11
6	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+30.072	5	10
7	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+57.614	10	9
8	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	28	+1:08.442	13	8
9	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	28	+1:11.106	12	7
10	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	28	+1:14.079	11	6
11	24	Toni Elías	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	28	+1:26.305	16	5
12	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	28	+1:40.274	20	4
13	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	27	+1 lap	19	3
14	15	Steve Rapp	Attack Performance	APR	27	+1 lap	21	2
15	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	27	+1 lap^[6]	17	1
16	20	Aaron Yates	GPTech	BCL	27	+1 lap	22
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	9	Accident	7
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	8	Retirement	9
Ret	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	6	Retirement	4
Ret	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	1	Retirement	15
Ret	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Master	ART	0	Accident	14
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda	0	Retirement	18
DNS	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati		Injury
WD	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati		Injury
Sources:^[7]^[8]^[9]

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	26	45:13.763	2	25
2	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	26	+5.855	1	20
3	60	Julián Simón	Suter	26	+9.394	4	16
4	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	26	+15.549	8	13
5	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	26	+16.138	9	11
6	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	26	+16.805	6	10
7	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	26	+21.359	5	9
8	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	26	+21.368	12	8
9	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	26	+25.873	3	7
10	71	Claudio Corti	Kalex	26	+26.471	7	6
11	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	26	+26.916	15	5
12	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	26	+27.274	13	4
13	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	26	+31.122	10	3
14	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	26	+35.928	17	2
15	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	26	+39.240	14	1
16	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	26	+42.507	11
17	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	26	+45.629	26
18	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	26	+45.753	23
19	8	Gino Rea	Suter	26	+51.567	19
20	76	Max Neukirchner	Kalex	26	+52.106	28
21	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	26	+56.150	27
22	23	Marcel Schrötter	Bimota	26	+1:11.069	29
23	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	26	+1:11.765	25
24	63	Mike Di Meglio	MZ-RE Honda	26	+1:20.042	20
25	57	Eric Granado	Motobi	26	+1:42.924	31
26	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	26	+1:43.184	32
27	72	Yuki Takahashi	FTR	23	+3 laps	21
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	26	(+35.701)^[10]	24
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	Suter	20	Retirement	22
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	17	Accident	18
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	FTR	17	Accident	16
Ret	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	10	Accident	30
Ret	82	Elena Rosell	Moriwaki	7	Accident	33
Source:^[11]

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	23	42:14.300	4	25
2	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	23	+0.056	1	20
3	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	23	+2.940	15	16
4	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	23	+3.067	11	13
5	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	23	+3.664	8	11
6	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	23	+7.663	5	10
7	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	23	+7.697	6	9
8	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	23	+11.203	10	8
9	23	Alberto Moncayo	FTR Honda	23	+11.242	9	7
10	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	23	+13.163	12	6
11	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	23	+23.362	22	5
12	52	Danny Kent	KTM	23	+24.364	2	4
13	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	23	+25.001	14	3
14	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	23	+31.211	16	2
15	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	23	+34.179	13	1
16	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	23	+1:12.945	27
17	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	23	+1:14.428	26
18	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	23	+1:14.709	29
19	80	Armando Pontone	Ioda	23	+1:15.326	28
20	20	Riccardo Moretti	Mahindra	22	+1 lap	30
Ret	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	22	Accident	3
Ret	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	15	Accident	18
Ret	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	11	Accident	7
Ret	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	10	Retirement	25
Ret	12	Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	6	Accident	19
Ret	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	3	Accident	17
Ret	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	0	Accident	20
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	FGR Honda	0	Accident	21
Ret	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	0	Accident	24
DSQ	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	4	Disqualified	23
DNS	8	Jack Miller	Honda		Injury
DNS	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra		Injury
DNS	55	Héctor Faubel	Kalex KTM		Injury
Source:^[12]

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