2011 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2011 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 October 2011 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

  2011 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 18 races in the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 October 2011
Official name	Iveco Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix^[1]^[2]^[3]
Location	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.764 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Casey Stoner Time 1:29.975 Fastest lap Rider Casey Stoner Time 1:30.629 Podium First Casey Stoner Second Marco Simoncelli Third Andrea Dovizioso
Moto2
Pole position Rider Alex de Angelis Time 1:34.574 Fastest lap Rider Alex de Angelis Time 1:34.549 Podium First Alex de Angelis Second Stefan Bradl Third Marc Márquez
125 cc
Pole position Rider Johann Zarco Time 1:39.207 Fastest lap Rider Sandro Cortese Time 1:40.276 Podium First Sandro Cortese Second Luis Salom Third Johann Zarco

Australian rider Casey Stoner clinched the 2011 MotoGP World Championship with his fifth consecutive victory at his home Grand Prix on his 26th birthday. Italian rider Marco Simoncelli recorded his final podium finish at this event before being fatally injured at the following race in Malaysia.

Race winner Casey Stoner, toasting the champagne with third place Andrea Dovizioso on the podium at the MotoGP race.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	42:02.425	1	25
2	58	Marco Simoncelli	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	27	+2.210	2	20
3	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	+2.454	4	16
4	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	+13.160	6	13
5	5	Colin Edwards	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+30.886	7	11
6	14	Randy de Puniet	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	27	+48.800	9	10
7	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	27	+1:16.314	5	9
8	24	Toni Elías	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	26	+1 lap	14	8
9	65	Loris Capirossi	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	26	+1 lap	8	7
10	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	25	+2 laps	13	6
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	23	Accident	3
Ret	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	23	Accident	10
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	Accident	12
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	13	Accident	11
DNS	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha		Injury
DNS	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha		Injury
DNS	6	Damian Cudlin	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati		Injury
Sources:^[4]^[5]^[6]

Moto2 classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Alex de Angelis	Motobi	25	39:44.774	1	25
2	65	Stefan Bradl	Kalex	25	+1.358	8	20
3	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	25	+6.362	38^[N 1]	16
4	71	Claudio Corti	Suter	25	+6.475	20	13
5	44	Pol Espargaró	FTR	25	+14.815	6	11
6	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Suter	25	+15.155	5	10
7	45	Scott Redding	Suter	25	+15.261	4	9
8	29	Andrea Iannone	Suter	25	+16.047	16	8
9	63	Mike Di Meglio	Tech 3	25	+16.331	2	7
10	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	25	+20.337	3	6
11	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	25	+22.081	9	5
12	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	25	+26.248	13	4
13	40	Aleix Espargaró	Pons Kalex	25	+29.295	24	3
14	51	Michele Pirro	Moriwaki	25	+30.203	12	2
15	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	25	+30.745	22	1
16	36	Mika Kallio	Suter	25	+30.776	15
17	88	Ricard Cardús	Moriwaki	25	+30.784	27
18	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	25	+43.520	7
19	80	Axel Pons	Pons Kalex	25	+47.064	25
20	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Suter	25	+50.357	19
21	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	25	+50.364	33
22	9	Kenny Noyes	FTR	25	+1:04.747	26
23	6	Joan Olivé	FTR	25	+1:04.907	30
24	68	Yonny Hernández	FTR	25	+1:19.734	29
25	20	Iván Moreno	Suter	24	+1 lap	31
26	64	Santiago Hernández	FTR	24	+1 lap	34
27	56	Blake Leigh-Smith	FTR	24	+1 lap	35
28	95	Mashel Al Naimi	Moriwaki	24	+1 lap	37
Ret	39	Robertino Pietri	Suter	20	Retirement	36
Ret	53	Valentin Debise	FTR	19	Retirement	28
Ret	43	Kris McLaren	Suter	14	Accident	32
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	12	Accident	23
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Suter	12	Retirement	21
Ret	76	Max Neukirchner	MZ-RE Honda	1	Accident	11
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	FTR	0	Accident	10
Ret	18	Jordi Torres	Suter	0	Accident	14
Ret	34	Esteve Rabat	FTR	0	Accident	17
Ret	13	Anthony West	MZ-RE Honda	0	Accident	18
DNS	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	FTR		Injury
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

125 cc classification

The race was stopped after 20 laps due to an accident involving Niklas Ajo.^[8]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	20	34:49.670	2	25
2	39	Luis Salom	Aprilia	20	+13.572	10	20
3	5	Johann Zarco	Derbi	20	+14.311	1	16
4	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	20	+14.926	6	13
5	23	Alberto Moncayo	Aprilia	20	+22.328	8	11
6	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	20	+26.689	4	10
7	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	20	+28.887	5	9
8	25	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	20	+35.635	9	8
9	96	Louis Rossi	Aprilia	20	+36.553	12	7
10	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	20	+36.686	18	6
11	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	20	+38.608	19	5
12	3	Luigi Morciano	Aprilia	20	+41.697	11	4
13	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Aprilia	20	+43.349	13	3
14	10	Alexis Masbou	KTM	20	+47.896	15	2
15	50	Sturla Fagerhaug	Aprilia	20	+55.159	22	1
16	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Aprilia	20	+56.909	16
17	28	Josep Rodríguez	Aprilia	20	+1:10.093	20
18	17	Taylor Mackenzie	Aprilia	20	+1:10.237	27
19	60	Manuel Tatasciore	Aprilia	20	+1:10.802	21
20	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Derbi	20	+1:10.844	26
21	14	Brad Binder	Aprilia	20	+1:27.965	24
22	52	Danny Kent	Aprilia	20	+1:37.676	7
23	8	Jack Miller	KTM	20	+1:40.315	28
24	40	Marco Colandrea	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	30
25	30	Giulian Pedone	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	23
26	46	Joshua Hook	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	32
27	26	Adrián Martín	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	14
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	Aprilia	19	Accident	17
Ret	36	Joan Perelló	Aprilia	12	Retirement	29
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	Aprilia	9	Retirement	25
Ret	47	Nicky Diles	Aprilia	6	Retirement	31
DNS	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	0	Engine	3
DNS	21	Harry Stafford	Aprilia		Injury
DNQ	48	Alexander Phillis	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	45	Tom Hatton	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	49	Avalon Biddle	Honda		Did not qualify
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

Notes

1. Márquez had one minute added onto his qualifying time for crashing into the back of Wilairot at the end of the Friday morning practice session.^[7]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.^[9]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1   Casey Stoner 325 2   Jorge Lorenzo 260 3   Andrea Dovizioso 212 4   Dani Pedrosa 208 5   Ben Spies 156

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1   Honda 380 2   Yamaha 305 3   Ducati 172 4   Suzuki 73

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

1. "2011 Australian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2011 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Phillip Island Circuit – The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
4. "2011 Australian MotoGP – Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
5. "motogp.com · IVECO AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2011". www.motogp.com.
6. "Classification" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2011.
7. "Márquez handed qualification penalty at Phillip Island". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 14 October 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
8. "Cortese takes a red flagged Australian GP". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 16 October 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
9. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2019.

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