2013 French motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2013 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 17–19 May 2013 at the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans, France.

Cal Crutchlow, Dani Pedrosa and Marc Márquez, celebrating on the podium after finishing second, first and third in the MotoGP race.

  2013 French Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 18 races in the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	19 May 2013
Official name	Monster Energy Grand Prix de France[1]
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.185 km (2.600 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:33.187 Fastest lap Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:43.597 on lap 15 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Honda Second Cal Crutchlow Yamaha Third Marc Márquez Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Takaaki Nakagami Kalex Time 1:38.508 Fastest lap Rider Scott Redding Kalex Time 1:39.117 on lap 19 Podium First Scott Redding Kalex Second Mika Kallio Kalex Third Xavier Siméon Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Maverick Viñales KTM Time 1:43.696 Fastest lap Rider Maverick Viñales KTM Time 1:43.916 on lap 24 Podium First Maverick Viñales KTM Second Álex Rins KTM Third Luis Salom KTM

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	49:17.707	6	25
2	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+4.863	4	20
3	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+6.949	1	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+10.087	3	13
5	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+18.471	10	11
6	19	Álvaro Bautista	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	Honda	28	+23.561	7	10
7	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	28	+27.961	2	9
8	51	Michele Pirro	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	28	+40.775	14	8
9	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+41.407	9	7
10	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+1:00.995	5	6
11	29	Andrea Iannone	Energy TI Pramac Racing	Ducati	28	+1:05.110	13	5
12	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	28	+1:16.368	8	4
13	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	27	+1:24.200	11	3
14	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	28	+1:25.726	16	2
15	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	ART	28	+1:32.111	18	1
16	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	28	+1:40.602	17
17	70	Michael Laverty	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	27	+1 lap	20
18	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Blusens	FTR	27	+1 lap	15
19	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Avintia Blusens	FTR	27	+1 lap	24
Ret	68	Yonny Hernández	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	20	Retirement	23
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	15	Accident	12
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	15	Retirement	22
Ret	71	Claudio Corti	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	7	Retirement	19
Ret	67	Bryan Staring	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	FTR Honda	1	Accident	21
[2][3][4]

Moto2

The race was red-flagged on lap 24 of 26 due to rain; the final results were taken from the end of lap 22.[5]

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	22	36:43.583	2	25
2	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	22	+1.090	10	20
3	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	22	+1.234	5	16
4	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	22	+1.701	13	13
5	5	Johann Zarco	Suter	22	+1.859	3	11
6	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Up	22	+12.272	9	10
7	63	Mike Di Meglio	Motobi	22	+12.378	12	9
8	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	22	+29.712	18	8
9	15	Alex de Angelis	Speed Up	22	+31.235	19	7
10	4	Randy Krummenacher	Suter	22	+31.535	32	6
11	3	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	22	+31.675	30	5
12	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	22	+31.917	17	4
13	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	22	+35.778	16	3
14	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	22	+45.045	21	2
15	52	Danny Kent	Tech 3	22	+45.151	26	1
16	17	Alberto Moncayo	Speed Up	22	+55.456	29
17	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	22	+59.886	23
18	7	Doni Tata Pradita	Suter	22	+1:02.095	33
19	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	22	+1:06.414	7
20	44	Steven Odendaal	Speed Up	22	+1:48.007	27
21	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	21	+1 lap	25
22	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	20	+2 laps	4
23	97	Rafid Topan Sucipto	Speed Up	19	+3 laps	34
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	22	(+30.479)[6]	11
NC	88	Ricard Cardús	Speed Up	22	+1:29.658	20
NC	8	Gino Rea	FTR	12	+10 laps	31
Ret	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	19	Retirement	14
Ret	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	17	Accident	6
Ret	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	6	Accident	1
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	4	Retirement	8
Ret	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	2	Accident	15
Ret	9	Kyle Smith	Kalex	0	Accident	22
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	0	Accident	24
Ret	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	0	Accident	28
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	25	Maverick Viñales	KTM	24	42:05.448	1	25
2	42	Álex Rins	KTM	24	+1.264	4	20
3	39	Luis Salom	KTM	24	+1.387	5	16
4	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	24	+14.593	3	13
5	12	Álex Márquez	KTM	24	+37.949	7	11
6	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Kalex KTM	24	+40.295	14	10
7	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	24	+43.325	11	9
8	41	Brad Binder	Suter Honda	24	+43.537	12	8
9	10	Alexis Masbou	FTR Honda	24	+45.511	10	7
10	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	24	+45.674	8	6
11	17	John McPhee	FTR Honda	24	+51.452	18	5
12	8	Jack Miller	FTR Honda	24	+51.592	6	4
13	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	24	+58.713	19	3
14	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	24	+58.970	16	2
15	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	24	+1:18.027	28	1
16	11	Livio Loi	Kalex KTM	24	+1:18.384	20
17	3	Matteo Ferrari	FTR Honda	24	+1:23.388	30
18	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Kalex KTM	24	+1:27.726	22
19	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	24	+1:27.754	23
20	4	Francesco Bagnaia	FTR Honda	24	+1:27.860	27
21	53	Jasper Iwema	Kalex KTM	24	+1:28.165	29
22	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	TSR Honda	24	+1:30.631	24
23	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	24	+1:30.841	21
24	57	Eric Granado	Kalex KTM	23	+1 lap	26
25	29	Hyuga Watanabe	FTR Honda	23	+1 lap	32
26	18	Christophe Arciero	Suter	23	+1 lap	33
Ret	77	Lorenzo Baldassarri	FTR Honda	20	Accident	13
Ret	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	19	Accident	15
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	19	Accident	9
Ret	95	Jules Danilo	Kalex KTM	13	Accident	25
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	12	Accident	17
Ret	66	Florian Alt	Kalex KTM	6	Retirement	31
Ret	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	4	Accident	2
DNS	99	Danny Webb	Suter Honda		Did not start
DNS	7	Efrén Vázquez	Mahindra		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round four has concluded.[7]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Dani Pedrosa 83 2 Marc Márquez 77 3 Jorge Lorenzo 66 4 Cal Crutchlow 55 5 Valentino Rossi 47

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 91 2 Yamaha 77 3 Ducati 40 4 ART 20 5 FTR 7

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

References

1. "2013 French MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
2. "2013 French MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
3. "MONSTER ENERGY GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE · MotoGP Race Classification 2013". Motogp.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
4. "2013 FRENCH MOTOGP : Race classification" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
5. "Le Mans Moto2: Scott Redding claims French GP victory!". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 19 May 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
6. "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.
7. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2013. Retrieved 2019-08-25.

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