2018 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas
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The 2018 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas was the third round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin on April 22, 2018.
DateApril 22, 2018
LocationCircuit of the Americas, Austin, United States
Course
- Permanent racing facility
- 5.513 km (3.426 mi)
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| Race 3 of 19 races in the 2018 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | April 22, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Circuit of the Americas, Austin, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification
MotoGP
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 93 |  Marc Márquez |
Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 20 | 41:52.002 | 4[N 2] | 25 |
| 2 | 25 | Maverick Viñales |
Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 20 | +3.560 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 29 |  Andrea Iannone |
Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 20 | +6.704 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 46 | Valentino Rossi |
Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 20 | +9.587 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso |
Ducati Team | Ducati | 20 | +13.570 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 |  Johann Zarco |
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 20 | +14.231 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa |
Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 20 | +18.201 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 53 | Tito Rabat |
Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 20 | +28.537 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 43 |  Jack Miller |
Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 20 | +28.671 | 18 | 7 |
| 10 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró |
Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 20 | +28.875 | 19 | 6 |
| 11 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo |
Ducati Team | Ducati | 20 | +31.355 | 6 | 5 |
| 12 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci |
Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 20 | +34.993 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 44 | Pol Espargaró |
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 20 | +37.264 | 15[N 2] | 3 |
| 14 | 30 |  Takaaki Nakagami |
LCR Honda Idemitsu | Honda | 20 | +39.335 | 12 | 2 |
| 15 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista |
Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 20 | +40.887 | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 38 |  Bradley Smith |
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 20 | +48.475 | 14 | |
| 17 | 45 | Scott Redding |
Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 20 | +49.995 | 22 | |
| 18 | 12 |  Thomas Lüthi |
EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 20 | +51.115 | 20 | |
| 19 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow |
LCR Honda Castrol | Honda | 20 | +59.055[N 3] | 7 | |
| 20 | 10 |  Xavier Siméon |
Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 20 | +59.747 | 24 | |
| 21 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli |
EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 20 | +1:00.513 | 17 | |
| Ret | 42 | Álex Rins |
Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 10 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 55 |  Hafizh Syahrin |
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 8 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 17 |  Karel Abraham |
Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 8 | Rider In Pain | 23 | |
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Moto2
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia |
Kalex | 18 | 39:30.016 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 73 | Álex Márquez |
Kalex | 18 | +2.464 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 |  Miguel Oliveira |
KTM | 18 | +3.704 | 12 | 16 |
| 4 | 36 | Joan Mir |
Kalex | 18 | +5.376 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 27 | Iker Lecuona |
KTM | 18 | +6.867 | 13 | 11 |
| 6 | 41 |  Brad Binder |
KTM | 18 | +6.876 | 16 | 10 |
| 7 | 54 | Mattia Pasini |
Kalex | 18 | +9.308 | 3 | 9 |
| 8 | 9 | Jorge Navarro |
Kalex | 18 | +10.510 | 19 | 8 |
| 9 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter |
KTM | 18 | +10.595 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri |
Kalex | 18 | +11.497 | 17 | 6 |
| 11 | 32 | Isaac Viñales |
Kalex | 18 | +12.339 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 24 | Simone Corsi |
Kalex | 18 | +13.458 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | Luca Marini |
Kalex | 18 | +14.282 | 6 | 3 |
| 14 | 5 | Andrea Locatelli |
Kalex | 18 | +14.548 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo |
Speed Up | 18 | +17.169 | 9 | 1 |
| 16 | 13 | Romano Fenati |
Kalex | 18 | +20.609 | 15 | |
| 17 | 87 | Remy Gardner |
Tech 3 | 18 | +20.821 | 18 | |
| 18 | 40 | Héctor Barberá |
Kalex | 18 | +27.068 | 20 | |
| 19 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima |
Kalex | 18 | +27.245 | 26 | |
| 20 | 64 |  Bo Bendsneyder |
Tech 3 | 18 | +32.144 | 23 | |
| 21 | 4 | Steven Odendaal |
NTS | 18 | +38.350 | 29 | |
| 22 | 51 |  Eric Granado |
Suter | 18 | +38.579 | 24 | |
| 23 | 16 |  Joe Roberts |
NTS | 18 | +44.257 | 27 | |
| 24 | 22 | Sam Lowes |
KTM | 18 | +45.289 | 2 | |
| 25 | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi |
Kalex | 18 | +46.966 | 25 | |
| 26 | 95 | Jules Danilo |
Kalex | 18 | +1:10.364 | 30 | |
| 27 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin |
Kalex | 18 | +1:27.099 | 31 | |
| 28 | 21 | Federico Fuligni |
Kalex | 18 | +1:27.257 | 32 | |
| Ret | 97 | Xavi Vierge |
Kalex | 13 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 62 | Stefano Manzi |
Suter | 11 | Accident Damage | 28 | |
| Ret | 23 |  Marcel Schrötter |
Kalex | 6 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 52 | Danny Kent |
Speed Up | 3 | Accident | 22 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT | |||||||
Moto3
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 88 | Jorge Martín |
Honda | 17 | 39:12.869 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 33 | Enea Bastianini |
Honda | 17 | +1.451 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 12 | Marco Bezzecchi |
KTM | 17 | +4.112 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 16 | Andrea Migno |
KTM | 17 | +4.172 | 16 | 13 |
| 5 | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio |
Honda | 17 | +4.186 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 65 | Philipp Öttl |
KTM | 17 | +4.374 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil |
KTM | 17 | +5.452 | 21 | 9 |
| 8 | 44 | Arón Canet |
Honda | 17 | +7.971 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki |
Honda | 17 | +8.287 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 11 | Livio Loi |
KTM | 17 | +8.711 | 26 | 6 |
| 11 | 71 | Ayumu Sasaki |
Honda | 17 | +10.909 | 8 | 5 |
| 12 | 19 |  Gabriel Rodrigo |
KTM | 17 | +13.745 | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 40 | Darryn Binder |
KTM | 17 | +14.532 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 17 | John McPhee |
KTM | 17 | +16.071 | 3 | 2 |
| 15 | 75 | Albert Arenas |
KTM | 17 | +16.181 | 24 | 1 |
| 16 | 10 | Dennis Foggia |
KTM | 17 | +19.895 | 7 | |
| 17 | 72 | Alonso López |
Honda | 17 | +23.516 | 22 | |
| 18 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta |
Honda | 17 | +23.757 | 17 | |
| 19 | 76 |  Makar Yurchenko |
KTM | 17 | +25.424 | 18 | |
| 20 | 14 | Tony Arbolino |
Honda | 17 | +25.439 | 20 | |
| 21 | 5 | Jaume Masiá |
KTM | 17 | +33.897 | 10 | |
| 22 | 22 | Kazuki Masaki |
KTM | 17 | +38.352 | 27 | |
| 23 | 41 |  Nakarin Atiratphuvapat |
Honda | 17 | +38.362 | 13 | |
| 24 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli |
Honda | 17 | +59.078 | 19 | |
| Ret | 42 | Marcos Ramírez |
KTM | 12 | Handling | 14 | |
| Ret | 8 | Nicolò Bulega |
KTM | 5 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 7 | Adam Norrodin |
Honda | 2 | Accident Damage | 25 | |
| Ret | 27 | Kaito Toba |
Honda | 1 | Accident Damage | 28 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT | |||||||
Championship standings after the race
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Notes
- Marc Márquez, who set the fastest time in qualifying, received a grid penalty which promoted Maverick Viñales to the pole position grid slot.
- 3-place grid penalty.
- 2.7-second penalty.