2012 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

2012 Portuguese Grand Prix
Race details
Race 3 of 18 races in the; 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	6 May 2012
Official name	Grande Prémio de Portugal Circuito Estoril
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.182 km (2.599 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Casey Stoner
Time	1:37.188
Fastest lap
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo
Time	1:36.909
Podium
First	Casey Stoner
Second	Jorge Lorenzo
Third	Dani Pedrosa
Moto2
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Marc Márquez
Time	1:40.934
Fastest lap
Rider	Pol Espargaró
Time	1:40.921
Podium
First	Marc Márquez
Second	Pol Espargaró
Third	Thomas Lüthi
Moto3
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Sandro Cortese
Time	1:47.145
Fastest lap
Rider	Sandro Cortese
Time	1:47.354
Podium
First	Sandro Cortese
Second	Maverick Viñales
Third	Luis Salom

Date6 May 2012

Official nameGrande Prémio de Portugal Circuito Estoril^[1]^[2]^[3]

Course

The 2012 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 4–6 May 2012 at the Autódromo do Estoril located in Estoril, Portugal.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	45:37.513	1	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	28	+1.421	4	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+3.621	2	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+13.846	7	13
5	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+16.690	3	11
6	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	28	+21.884	6	10
7	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+26.797	9	9
8	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	28	+33.262	5	8
9	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+35.867	11	7
10	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	28	+53.363	8	6
11	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+1:02.630	10	5
12	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	28	+1:20.736	12	4
13	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	28	+1:23.483	14	3
14	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	28	+1:37.905	16	2
15	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda	27	+1 lap	19	1
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	23	Retirement	13
Ret	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	18	Retirement	18
Ret	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	16	Retirement	15
Ret	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Master	ART	11	Retirement	17
Ret	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	11	Retirement	20
DNS	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter		Did not start
Sources: ^[4]^[5]^[6]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	26	44:04.086	1	25
2	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	26	+1.987	5	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	26	+2.071	2	16
4	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	26	+9.227	4	13
5	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	26	+10.481	6	11
6	15	Alex de Angelis	Suter	26	+21.180	9	10
7	24	Toni Elías	Suter	26	+21.394	8	9
8	60	Julián Simón	Suter	26	+21.504	7	8
9	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	26	+21.581	17	7
10	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	26	+24.100	13	6
11	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	26	+27.248	3	5
12	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	26	+30.087	10	4
13	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	26	+30.132	22	3
14	71	Claudio Corti	Kalex	26	+30.257	21	2
15	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	26	+30.879	12	1
16	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	26	+31.097	15
17	95	Anthony West	Moriwaki	26	+43.099	26
18	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	26	+47.282	11
19	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	26	+47.399	19
20	76	Max Neukirchner	Kalex	26	+48.143	27
21	44	Roberto Rolfo	Suter	26	+53.563	24
22	47	Ángel Rodríguez	FTR	26	+54.530	30
23	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Moriwaki	26	+55.666	28
24	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	26	+1:24.889	16
25	7	Alexander Lundh	MZ-RE Honda	26	+1:32.467	29
26	82	Elena Rosell	Moriwaki	26	+1:40.748	31
27	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	25	+1 lap	32
28	8	Gino Rea	Moriwaki	25	+1 lap	25
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Speed Up	20	Accident	14
Ret	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	19	Accident	18
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	11	Accident	23
Ret	72	Yuki Takahashi	Suter	5	Accident	20
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	23	41:34.536	1	25
2	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	23	+0.055	2	20
3	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	23	+11.038	7	16
4	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	23	+12.195	5	13
5	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	23	+20.934	8	11
6	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	23	+20.976	12	10
7	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	23	+21.792	22	9
8	52	Danny Kent	KTM	23	+21.888	4	8
9	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	23	+23.046	10	7
10	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	23	+23.310	11	6
11	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	23	+23.379	14	5
12	55	Héctor Faubel	Kalex KTM	23	+23.763	9	4
13	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	23	+24.308	16	3
14	23	Alberto Moncayo	Kalex KTM	23	+25.015	17	2
15	12	Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	23	+26.450	19	1
16	6	Joan Olivé	KTM	23	+32.641	24
17	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	23	+32.743	20
18	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	23	+36.511	21
19	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	23	+53.527	23
20	21	Iván Moreno	FTR Honda	23	+1:04.014	26
21	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	23	+1:04.064	30
22	73	Manuel Tatasciore	Honda	23	+1:04.071	25
23	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	23	+1:30.900	33
24	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	22	+1 lap	32
25	86	Kevin Hanus	Honda	22	+1 lap	31
NC	80	Armando Pontone	Ioda	23	+2:32.229	34
NC	30	Giulian Pedone	Oral	23	+2:35.705	29
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	FGR Honda	15	Accident	28
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	14	Accident	15
Ret	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	14	Accident	6
Ret	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	13	Retirement	27
Ret	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	8	Retirement	18
Ret	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	6	Retirement	13
Ret	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	3	Retirement	3
DNQ	15	Simone Grotzkyj	Oral		Food poisoning
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

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