2012 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2012 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 October 2012 at the Sepang International Circuit. Sandro Cortese became the first Moto3 world champion.[4]

Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner, celebrating on the podium after finishing second, first and third at the MotoGP race.

  2012 Malaysian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	21 October 2012
Official name	Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix[1][2][3]
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.548 km (3.447 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Time 2:00.334 Fastest lap Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 2:14.670 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Honda Second Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Third Casey Stoner Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Pol Espargaró Kalex Time 2:06.962 Fastest lap Rider Hafizh Syahrin FTR Time 2:23.707 Podium First Alex de Angelis FTR Second Gino Rea Suter Third Hafizh Syahrin FTR
Moto3
Pole position Rider Zulfahmi Khairuddin KTM Time 2:13.885 Fastest lap Rider Zulfahmi Khairuddin KTM Time 2:15.142 Podium First Sandro Cortese KTM Second Zulfahmi Khairuddin KTM Third Jonas Folger Kalex KTM

Classification

MotoGP

The race was red-flagged due to the worsening weather conditions. The final results were taken at the end of the 13th lap and full points were awarded.[5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	13	29:29.049	2	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	13	+3.774	1	20
3	1	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	13	+7.144	4	16
4	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	13	+10.518	9	13
5	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	13	+16.759	11	11
6	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	13	+17.276	10	10
7	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	13	+50.282	7	9
8	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	13	+51.585	12	8
9	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	13	+56.676	16	7
10	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	13	+57.622	14	6
11	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	13	+1:02.805	17	5
12	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	13	+1:02.891	15	4
13	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	13	+1:28.989	3	3
DSQ	84	Roberto Rolfo	Speed Master	ART	13	(+1:23.890)[6]	19
Ret	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	11	Accident	8
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	10	Accident	5
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	10	Accident	13
Ret	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	10	Accident	20
Ret	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	10	Retirement	18
Ret	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	8	Accident	6
DNS	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR		Injury
Source: [7][8][5]

Moto2

The race was stopped with the red flag due to weather conditions. The final results were taken at the end of the 15th lap.[9]

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	15	Alex de Angelis	FTR	15	36:57.793	9	25
2	8	Gino Rea	Suter	15	+1.363	22	20
3	86	Hafizh Syahrin	FTR	15	+2.941	27	16
4	60	Julián Simón	Suter	15	+7.583	13	13
5	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	15	+10.062	11	11
6	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	15	+23.078	15	10
7	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	15	+26.957	6	9
8	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	15	+30.063	10	8
9	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	15	+31.514	7	7
10	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	15	+31.746	1	6
11	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	15	+37.108	2	5
12	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	15	+38.627	28	4
13	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	15	+39.095	17	3
14	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	15	+40.686	26	2
15	72	Yuki Takahashi	FTR	15	+40.757	23	1
16	75	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Suter	15	+41.859	21
17	23	Marcel Schrötter	Bimota	15	+46.760	25
18	20	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	15	+1:10.712	30
19	82	Elena Rosell	Speed Up	15	+1:17.807	31
20	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	15	+1:19.320	32
21	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	15	+1:27.281	16
22	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	15	+1:41.865	12
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	15	(+0.710)[10]	19
DSQ	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	15	(+1:28.788)[6]	29
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	14	Accident	8
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Kalex	14	Retirement	14
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	12	Accident	3
Ret	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	12	Accident	20
Ret	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	12	Accident	18
Ret	57	Eric Granado	Motobi	6	Retirement	33
Ret	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	2	Accident	4
Ret	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	0	Accident	5
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	0	Accident	24
Source:[11]

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	18	40:54.123	3	25
2	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	18	+0.028	1	20
3	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	18	+0.247	2	16
4	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	18	+8.503	10[12]	13
5	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	18	+8.674	5	11
6	52	Danny Kent	KTM	18	+9.335	11	10
7	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	18	+18.973	8	9
8	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	18	+25.419	6	8
9	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	18	+30.714	16	7
10	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	18	+30.763	9	6
11	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	18	+30.886	21	5
12	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	18	+31.019	7	4
13	8	Jack Miller	Honda	18	+31.225	19	3
14	12	Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	18	+31.313	24	2
15	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	18	+31.649	12	1
16	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	18	+31.715	14
17	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	18	+31.790	13
18	23	Alberto Moncayo	FTR Honda	18	+32.147	15
19	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	18	+39.364	18
20	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	18	+45.824	17
21	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	18	+46.622	20
22	17	John McPhee	KRP Honda	18	+46.672	26
23	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	18	+46.790	22
24	29	Luca Amato	Kalex KTM	18	+1:09.086	30
25	28	Josep Rodríguez	FGR Honda	18	+1:15.734	23
26	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	18	+1:33.717	27
27	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	18	+1:33.811	28
28	80	Armando Pontone	Ioda	18	+1:54.114	29
Ret	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	8	Retirement	25
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	5	Accident	4
Ret	20	Riccardo Moretti	Mahindra	1	Retirement	31
WD	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda		Withdrew
Source:[13]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.[14]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Jorge Lorenzo 330 2 Dani Pedrosa 307 3 Casey Stoner 213 4 Andrea Dovizioso 195 5 Álvaro Bautista 154

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 362 2 Yamaha 346 3 Ducati 174 4 ART 87 5 BQR 31

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

References

1. "2012 Malaysian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2012 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Sepang International Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
4. "Moto3: Cortese champion at Sepang, Khairuddin podium". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 21 October 2012.
5. "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2012.
6. Rider not classified due to not entering the pitlane within five minutes after the red flag.
7. "2012 Malaysian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
8. "MALAYSIAN MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2012". Motogp.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
9. "Sepang, Malaysia Moto2 - Race Results". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 21 October 2012.
10. "Doping – Decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of rider Anthony West" (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.
11. "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – Moto2 – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2012.
12. Luis Salom received a five grid position penalty for causing a collision with Jonas Folger in the previous race. "Folger and Salom react to Motegi last lap drama". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 15 October 2012.
13. "Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix – Moto3 – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 21 October 2012.
14. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2012. Retrieved 2019-08-25.

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