2012 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2012 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 September 2012 at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli.

  2012 San Marino Grand Prix

Race details
Race 13 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 September 2012
Official name	Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini^[1]
Location	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.226 km (2.626 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:33.857 Fastest lap Rider Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Time 1:34.398 Podium First Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Second Valentino Rossi Ducati Third Álvaro Bautista Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Suter Time 1:38.242 Fastest lap Rider Marc Márquez Suter Time 1:38.453 Podium First Marc Márquez Suter Second Pol Espargaró Kalex Third Andrea Iannone Speed Up
Moto3
Pole position Rider Sandro Cortese KTM Time 1:44.201 Fastest lap Rider Álex Rins Suter Honda Time 1:44.043 Podium First Sandro Cortese KTM Second Luis Salom Kalex KTM Third Romano Fenati FTR Honda

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	27	42:49.836	2	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	27	+4.398	6	20
3	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	27	+6.055	5	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+6.058	7	13
5	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	27	+7.543	8	11
6	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	27	+13.272	4	10
7	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	27	+40.907	10	9
8	56	Jonathan Rea	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	+43.162	9	8
9	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	27	+1:09.627	12	7
10	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	27	+1:13.605	15	6
11	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	27	+1:16.695	20	5
12	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	27	+1:19.073	18	4
13	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	27	+1:19.408	16	3
14	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	26	+1 lap	19	2
15	44	David Salom	Avintia Blusens	BQR	26	+1 lap	21	1
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	23	Retirement	14
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	4	Accident	3
Ret	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Master	ART	1	Accident	17
Ret	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	0	Collision	1
Ret	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	0	Collision	13
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	0	Accident	11
Sources:^[2]^[3]^[4]

Moto2

The Moto2 race was stopped after 3 laps due to an oil spill from Gino Rea's bike. It was restarted and reduced to 14 laps, with the starting grid determined by the running order in the first part.^[5] The final result was determined by the second part.

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	14	23:11.278	1	25
2	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	14	+0.359	2	20
3	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	14	+1.634	5	16
4	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	14	+5.078	9	13
5	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	14	+5.246	7	11
6	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	14	+5.570	17	10
7	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	14	+6.364	3	9
8	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	14	+6.853	10	8
9	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	14	+7.480	6	7
10	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	14	+7.989	15	6
11	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	14	+8.560	4	5
12	60	Julián Simón	Suter	14	+11.509	12	4
13	15	Alex de Angelis	FTR	14	+18.329	20	3
14	71	Claudio Corti	Kalex	14	+18.342	16	2
15	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	14	+18.568	23	1
16	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	14	+18.687	18
17	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	14	+18.862	21
18	63	Mike Di Meglio	Kalex	14	+25.645	19
19	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	14	+30.003	8
20	75	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Suter	14	+33.121	25
21	23	Marcel Schrötter	Bimota	14	+33.258	28
22	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	14	+33.532	26
23	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	14	+47.303	29
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	14	(+32.439)^[6]	24
Ret	72	Yuki Takahashi	FTR	8	Collision	11
Ret	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	8	Collision	13
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	6	Accident	14
Ret	82	Elena Rosell	Speed Up	1	Accident	30
Ret	8	Gino Rea	Suter	0	Retirement in 1st part	22
Ret	84	Steven Odendaal	AJR	0	Accident in 1st part	27
DNS	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex		Injury
Source:^[7]

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	23	40:22.100	1	25
2	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	23	+0.467	5	20
3	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	23	+0.937	2	16
4	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	23	+0.974	17	13
5	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	23	+1.145	11	11
6	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	23	+1.180	6	10
7	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	23	+1.315	15	9
8	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	23	+3.983	3	8
9	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	23	+4.376	9	7
10	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	23	+10.872	10	6
11	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	23	+14.499	8	5
12	52	Danny Kent	KTM	23	+14.604	4	4
13	55	Héctor Faubel	Kalex KTM	23	+14.880	13	3
14	23	Alberto Moncayo	FTR Honda	23	+21.011	16	2
15	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	23	+21.062	18	1
16	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	23	+21.777	14
17	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	23	+24.493	7
18	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	23	+59.383	32
19	95	Miroslav Popov	Mahindra	23	+59.685	33
20	71	Michael Ruben Rinaldi	Honda	23	+59.841	31
21	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	23	+1:19.973	27
22	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	23	+1:22.961	34
23	28	Josep Rodríguez	FTR Honda	23	+1:23.080	28
24	33	Stefano Valtulini	Honda	21	+2 laps	29
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	21	Retirement	24
Ret	12	Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	4	Accident	25
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	3	Retirement	12
Ret	80	Armando Pontone	Ioda	3	Accident	30
Ret	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	3	Collision	26
Ret	8	Jack Miller	Honda	2	Accident	21
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	FGR Honda	1	Accident	22
Ret	74	Kevin Calia	Honda	0	Collision	19
Ret	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	0	Collision	20
Ret	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	0	Collision	26
DNS	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda		Injury
Source:^[8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1   Jorge Lorenzo 270 2   Dani Pedrosa 232 3   Casey Stoner 186 4   Andrea Dovizioso 163 5   Cal Crutchlow 122

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1   Honda 287 2   Yamaha 286 3   Ducati 144 4   ART 69 5   BQR 28

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

References

1. "2012 San Marino MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
2. "2012 San Marino MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
3. . Archived from the original on 2012-10-28. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
4. "GP Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini – MotoGP – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 August 2012.
5. "Moto2: Marquez wins close Misano race". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 16 September 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
6. (PDF). v2-fim-live.com. Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. 28 November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 24 March 2015. [...] all the sporting results obtained by Anthony West from 20 May 2012 up to the expiry of the period of ineligibility (i.e. 19 October 2013) will be invalidated.
7. "GP Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini – Moto2 – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 August 2012.
8. "GP Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini – Moto3 – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 August 2012.
9. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2012. Retrieved 2019-08-25.

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