2007 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2007 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2007 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 2–4 November 2007 at the Circuit de Valencia in Valencia, Spain. In the MotoGP class Dani Pedrosa took 2nd in the championship by a single point from Valentino Rossi, while John Hopkins overhauled Marco Melandri to take 4th. In the 125cc class Gábor Talmácsi finished second behind teammate Héctor Faubel, which meant the Hungarian became the world champion of 2007.

  2007 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 18 of 18 races in the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	4 November 2007
Official name	Gran Premio bwin.com de la Comunitat Valenciana[1]
Location	Circuit de Valencia
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Time 1:31.517 Fastest lap Rider Dani Pedrosa Time 1:32.748 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Second Casey Stoner Third John Hopkins
250 cc
Pole position Rider Mika Kallio Time 1:35.166 Fastest lap Rider Mika Kallio Time 1:35:659 Podium First Mika Kallio Second Alex de Angelis Third Alex Debón
125 cc
Pole position Rider Gábor Talmácsi Time 1:39.029 Fastest lap Rider Héctor Faubel Time 1:39:380 Podium First Héctor Faubel Second Gábor Talmácsi Third Sergio Gadea

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	46:43.533	1	25
2	27	Casey Stoner	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+5.447	2	20
3	21	John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	30	+20.404	7	16
4	33	Marco Melandri	Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+24.827	10	13
5	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+25.804	8	11
6	71	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	30	+25.862	11	10
7	4	Alex Barros	Pramac d'Antin	Ducati	30	+29.470	12	9
8	1	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+30.333	3	8
9	14	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+30.895	4	7
10	24	Toni Elías	Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+31.030	14	6
11	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+38.763	5	5
12	7	Carlos Checa	Honda LCR	Honda	30	+42.506	9	4
13	5	Colin Edwards	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+46.572	15	3
14	56	Shinya Nakano	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	30	+50.220	13	2
15	6	Makoto Tamada	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+56.879	6	1
16	13	Anthony West	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+1:15.369	16
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	19	Retirement	17
Ret	80	Kurtis Roberts	Team Roberts	KR212V	10	Retirement	18
DNS	57	Chaz Davies	Pramac d'Antin	Ducati		Did not start
Sources: [2][3][4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	27	43:28.349	1	25
2	3	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	27	+0.371	9	20
3	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	27	+6.797	8	16
4	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	27	+6.880	10	13
5	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	27	+12.767	5	11
6	60	Julián Simón	Honda	27	+13.030	7	10
7	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	27	+14.751	2	9
8	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	27	+16.437	3	8
9	12	Thomas Lüthi	Aprilia	27	+16.551	14	7
10	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	27	+20.223	11	6
11	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	27	+23.626	4	5
12	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	27	+31.805	12	4
13	15	Roberto Locatelli	Gilera	27	+34.310	13	3
14	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	27	+58.825	20	2
15	8	Ratthapark Wilairot	Honda	27	+58.845	19	1
16	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	27	+59.688	18
17	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	27	+1:01.510	15
18	7	Efrén Vázquez	Aprilia	27	+1:19.620	23
19	11	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	27	+1:20.598	27
20	21	Federico Sandi	Aprilia	27	+1:24.412	24
21	50	Eugene Laverty	Honda	27	+1:27.529	25
22	31	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	22
23	10	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	26
24	53	Santiago Barragán	Honda	26	+1 lap	28
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	20	Accident	6
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	20	Accident	21
Ret	18	Joshua Sommer	Honda	19	Retirement	29
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	15	Accident	17
Ret	32	Fabrizio Lai	Aprilia	0	Accident	16
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	24	40:14.228	2	25
2	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	24	+0.185	1	20
3	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+0.286	3	16
4	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	24	+0.826	8	13
5	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	24	+0.878	4	11
6	12	Esteve Rabat	Honda	24	+5.850	11	10
7	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+9.038	5	9
8	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	24	+13.034	12	8
9	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	KTM	24	+20.734	15	7
10	44	Pol Espargaró	Aprilia	24	+21.002	9	6
11	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	24	+21.346	7	5
12	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	24	+32.078	6	4
13	60	Michael Ranseder	Derbi	24	+39.542	16	3
14	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	24	+39.548	18	2
15	34	Randy Krummenacher	KTM	24	+39.706	17	1
16	51	Stevie Bonsey	KTM	24	+39.880	27
17	27	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	24	+40.877	19
18	77	Dominique Aegerter	Aprilia	24	+40.998	23
19	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	24	+44.169	26
20	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	24	+44.173	25
21	99	Danny Webb	Honda	24	+54.912	28
22	95	Robert Mureșan	Derbi	24	+1:09.235	29
23	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	24	+1:12.208	21
24	37	Joey Litjens	Honda	24	+1:12.315	32
25	13	Dino Lombardi	Honda	24	+1:12.770	34
26	78	Daniel Sáez	Aprilia	24	+1:12.786	31
27	30	Pere Tutusaus	Aprilia	24	+1:12.868	33
28	79	Ferruccio Lamborghini	Aprilia	24	+1:16.195	36
29	40	Alen Győrfi	Aprilia	24	+1:38.850	37
30	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	23	+1 lap	13
Ret	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	11	Accident	24
Ret	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	11	Retirement	35
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	9	Accident	10
Ret	98	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	9	Accident	20
Ret	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	7	Accident	22
Ret	17	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	1	Accident	14
Ret	76	Iván Maestro	Aprilia	0	Retirement	30
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eighteen has concluded.[5]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Casey Stoner 367 2 Dani Pedrosa 242 3 Valentino Rossi 241 4 John Hopkins 189 5 Marco Melandri 187

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Ducati 394 2 Honda 313 3 Yamaha 283 4 Suzuki 241 5 Kawasaki 144

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

References

1. "2007 Valencia MotoGP". Motorpsortmagazine.com. 15 January 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
2. "2007 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 15 January 2018.
3. "OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT" (PDF).
4. "motogp.com · G.P. bwin.com DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · MotoGP Race Classification 2007". www.motogp.com.
5. "motogp.com · MotoGP World Standing 2007". www.motogp.com.

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