2012 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

2012 Japanese Grand Prix
Race details
Race 15 of 18 races in the; 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	14 October 2012
Official name	AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.801 km (2.983 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo
Time	1:44.969
Fastest lap
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:45.589
Podium
First	Dani Pedrosa
Second	Jorge Lorenzo
Third	Álvaro Bautista
Moto2
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Pol Espargaró
Time	1:50.886
Fastest lap
Rider	Pol Espargaró
Time	1:51.100
Podium
First	Marc Márquez
Second	Pol Espargaró
Third	Esteve Rabat
Moto3
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Danny Kent
Time	1:58.371
Fastest lap
Rider	Alessandro Tonucci
Time	1:59.111
Podium
First	Danny Kent
Second	Maverick Viñales
Third	Alessandro Tonucci

Date14 October 2012

Official nameAirAsia Grand Prix of Japan^[1]^[2]^[3]

Course

The 2012 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 12–14 October 2012 at the Twin Ring Motegi, located in Motegi, Japan.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	42:31.569	2	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	24	+4.275	1	20
3	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	24	+6.752	5	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+16.397	6	13
5	1	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+20.566	7	11
6	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	24	+24.567	8	10
7	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	+26.072	9	9
8	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	+36.724	10	8
9	21	Katsuyuki Nakasuga	Yamaha YSP Racing Team	Yamaha	24	+36.794	11	7
10	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	24	+1:10.729	12	6
11	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	24	+1:15.658	15	5
12	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	24	+1:22.769	13	4
13	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	24	+1:24.968	16	3
14	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	24	+1:29.388	20	2
15	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	24	+1:34.612	18	1
16	84	Roberto Rolfo	Speed Master	ART	24	+1:50.853	21
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	Out of fuel	3
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	23	Retirement	19
Ret	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	14	Retirement	22
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	14	Retirement	14
Ret	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	1	Accident	4
Ret	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	1	Accident	17
Sources: ^[4]^[5]^[6]

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	23	42:56.171	2	25
2	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	23	+0.415	1	20
3	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	23	+9.584	3	16
4	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	23	+11.069	4	13
5	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	23	+11.595	5	11
6	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	23	+18.383	12	10
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	+18.672	11	9
8	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	23	+28.226	6	8
9	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	23	+28.451	13	7
10	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	23	+28.599	19	6
11	60	Julián Simón	Suter	23	+28.971	8	5
12	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	23	+29.815	16	4
13	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	23	+39.783	22	3
14	63	Mike Di Meglio	Kalex	23	+39.868	23	2
15	72	Yuki Takahashi	FTR	23	+39.970	14	1
16	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	23	+40.763	15
17	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	23	+40.900	18
18	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	23	+44.379	9
19	15	Alex de Angelis	FTR	23	+46.507	17
20	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	23	+55.561	25
21	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	23	+55.815	21
22	75	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Suter	23	+56.051	27
23	23	Marcel Schrötter	Bimota	23	+56.492	24
24	8	Gino Rea	Suter	23	+58.417	28
25	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	23	+1:12.398	26
26	82	Elena Rosell	Speed Up	23	+1:39.841	31
27	57	Eric Granado	Motobi	23	+1:40.787	32
28	20	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	22	+1 lap	30
Ret	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	19	Accident	10
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	3	Retirement	7
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	23	(+29.609)^[7]	20
DSQ	31	Kohta Nozane	FTR	6	Black flag	29
Source:^[8]

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	52	Danny Kent	KTM	20	40:02.775	1	25
2	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	20	+0.260	2	20
3	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	20	+2.352	5	16
4	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	20	+3.404	13	13
5	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	20	+3.645	4	11
6	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	20	+13.394	3	10
7	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	20	+15.523	11	9
8	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	20	+15.739	8	8
9	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	20	+15.946	9	7
10	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	20	+16.129	10	6
11	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	20	+16.223	14	5
12	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	20	+16.371	12	4
13	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	20	+28.368	23	3
14	12	Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	20	+28.375	17	2
15	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	20	+28.509	19	1
16	81	Hyuga Watanabe	Honda	20	+31.071	21
17	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	20	+40.292	16
18	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	20	+42.822	29
19	8	Jack Miller	Honda	20	+42.896	22
20	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	20	+47.451	20
21	17	John McPhee	KRP Honda	20	+48.245	26
22	29	Luca Amato	Kalex KTM	20	+48.359	31
23	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	20	+48.439	25
24	28	Josep Rodríguez	FGR Honda	20	+1:03.762	30
25	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	20	+1:10.290	28
26	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	20	+1:10.484	32
27	82	Yudai Kamei	Honda	19	+1 lap	27
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	19	Accident	7
Ret	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	19	Accident	6
Ret	23	Alberto Moncayo	FTR Honda	19	Retirement	15
Ret	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	14	Retirement	18
Ret	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	4	Retirement	24
DNS	80	Armando Pontone	Ioda		Did not start	33
DNS	20	Riccardo Moretti	Mahindra		Did not start	34
Source:^[9]

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