2013 United States motorcycle Grand Prix

United States  2013 United States Grand Prix
Race details
Race 9 of 18 races in the
2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date 21 July 2013
Official name Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix
Location Laguna Seca, Monterey, California, United States
Course Permanent racing facility
3.610 km (2.243 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Germany Stefan Bradl Honda
Time 1:21.176
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Marc Márquez Honda
Time 1:21.539 on lap 5
Podium
First Spain Marc Márquez Honda
Second Germany Stefan Bradl Honda
Third Italy Valentino Rossi Yamaha

The 2013 United States motorcycle Grand Prix (formally known as the 2013 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix)[1] was the ninth round of the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, and the second of three races in the 2013 season to take place in the United States of America. It was held on 21 July at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California. Like always, only a MotoGP class race was held at Laguna Seca.

Stefan Bradl took his first pole position, recorded his first pole position in MotoGP. At the famous corkscrew turn on lap 4 Marc Márquez, having had a faster run out of the previous corner, ran around the outside of Valentino Rossi coming into the corkscrew and was run wide by Rossi mid-corner. Márquez replicated the overtake that Rossi made on Casey Stoner at the same corner in 2008 to pass the Italian and give chase to Bradl. The gap closed quickly at first but Márquez followed Bradl until lap 19 when he made a pass into the last corner, the gap gradually extended in Márquez' favour over the next few laps and he won his 3rd GP of the year to extend his championship lead to 16 points over Dani Pedrosa. The win also marked the beating of another of Freddie Spencer's records as Márquez is now the youngest rider to win back to back races in the Premier Class of GP racing and the first/only rookie to win at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This was the last MotoGP race to take place at Laguna Seca, which was then replaced by Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in 2014 season at Termas de Río Hondo, Argentina. Bradl finished in second place, recorded his first podium in MotoGP and Rossi finished in third place.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 93 Spain Marc Márquez Honda 32 44:00.695 2 25
2 6 Germany Stefan Bradl Honda 32 +2.298 1 20
3 46 Italy Valentino Rossi Yamaha 32 +4.498 4 16
4 19 Spain Álvaro Bautista Honda 32 +4.557 3 13
5 26 Spain Dani Pedrosa Honda 32 +9.257 7 11
6 99 Spain Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha 32 +12.970 6 10
7 35 United Kingdom Cal Crutchlow Yamaha 32 +15.304 5 9
8 69 United States Nicky Hayden Ducati 32 +33.963 10 8
9 4 Italy Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 32 +34.129 8 7
10 8 Spain Héctor Barberá FTR 32 +1:02.369 13 6
11 15 San Marino Alex de Angelis Ducati 32 +1:02.604 14 5
12 5 United States Colin Edwards FTR Kawasaki 32 +1:03.593 15 4
13 9 Italy Danilo Petrucci Ioda-Suter 32 +1:20.420 16 3
14 17 Czech Republic Karel Abraham ART 31 +1 lap 19 2
15 68 Colombia Yonny Hernández ART 31 +1 lap 18 1
16 7 Japan Hiroshi Aoyama FTR 31 +1 lap 21
17 67 Australia Bryan Staring FTR Honda 31 +1 lap 22
18 52 Czech Republic Lukáš Pešek Ioda-Suter 31 +1 lap 23
Ret 38 United Kingdom Bradley Smith Yamaha 7 Mechanical 9
Ret 41 Spain Aleix Espargaró ART 5 Accident 11
Ret 14 France Randy de Puniet ART 4 Engine 12
Ret 71 Italy Claudio Corti FTR Kawasaki 3 Mechanical 17
Ret 70 United Kingdom Michael Laverty PBM 1 Accident 20
WD 79 United States Blake Young APR Bike damaged
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References

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