2014 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

Valencian Community  2014 Valencian Community Grand Prix
Race details
Race 18 of 18 races in the
2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date 9 November 2014
Official name Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Course Permanent racing facility
4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Italy Valentino Rossi Yamaha
Time 1:30.843
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Marc Márquez Honda
Time 1:31.515 on lap 8
Podium
First Spain Marc Márquez Honda
Second Italy Valentino Rossi Yamaha
Third Spain Dani Pedrosa Honda
Moto2
Pole position
Rider Spain Esteve Rabat Kalex
Time 1:35.199
Fastest lap
Rider Switzerland Thomas Lüthi Suter
Time 1:35.312 on lap 18
Podium
First Switzerland Thomas Lüthi Suter
Second Spain Esteve Rabat Kalex
Third France Johann Zarco Caterham Suter
Moto3
Pole position
Rider Italy Niccolò Antonelli KTM
Time 1:39.183
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Efrén Vázquez Honda
Time 1:39.400 on lap 7
Podium
First Australia Jack Miller KTM
Second Spain Isaac Viñales KTM
Third Spain Álex Márquez Honda

The 2014 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and last round of the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 9 November 2014.

In the MotoGP class, Valentino Rossi took his first pole position since the 2010 French Grand Prix. However, it was Marc Márquez who won the race, taking his thirteenth victory of the season,[1] surpassing the previous premier class record of twelve wins set by Mick Doohan in 1997. Rossi crossed the line in second place to take the runner-up spot in the championship, while the podium was completed by Dani Pedrosa.[2] Further down the order, Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Iannone took the decision to swap bikes – on lap 20 – as light rain fell. Both riders struggled to get the bike stopped in the uncertain conditions and dropped down the order; Iannone finished 22nd, while Lorenzo retired from the race. The Suzuki MotoGP team returned to the series in a wildcard appearance, ahead of a full-season entry in 2015. Utilising the new Suzuki GSX-RR, Randy de Puniet retired from the race before the halfway mark. Drive M7 Aspar rider, Hiroshi Aoyama, rode an Open-specification Honda RC213V-RS and finished in fifteenth place.

In the Moto2 race, Thomas Lüthi took his second victory of the season,[3] after capitalising on a mistake by the world champion, Esteve Rabat, on the final lap to take the spoils. Rabat had been leading the race before missing a gear coming out of the final corner, and Lüthi was able to prevail by 0.133 seconds at the line. Rabat's second place did however, seal a record number of points scored for an intermediate class season.[4] Johann Zarco completed the podium in third place,[3] his fourth podium of the season. Aside from the race honours, the runner-up position in the final championship standings was decided by virtue of a collision between the two competitors battling for the position. Rabat's team-mate Mika Kallio and Maverick Viñales both retired from the race, thus giving Kallio the position by 15 points.

The world title was decided in the final Moto3 race of the season, with a third-place finish for Álex Márquez enough to give him his first world title by two points, despite his title rival Jack Miller winning the race. In the process, he and his brother Marc Márquez became the first brothers to win world motorcycle racing titles.[5][6] Splitting the title rivals in the finishing order was Isaac Viñales, taking his third podium of the season.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos No Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 93 Spain Marc Márquez Honda 30 46:39.627 5 25
2 46 Italy Valentino Rossi Yamaha 30 +3.516 1 20
3 26 Spain Dani Pedrosa Honda 30 +14.040 3 16
4 4 Italy Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 30 +16.705 9 13
5 35 United Kingdom Cal Crutchlow Ducati 30 +16.773 8 11
6 44 Spain Pol Espargaró Yamaha 30 +37.884 6 10
7 41 Spain Aleix Espargaró Forward Yamaha 30 +38.168 11 9
8 6 Germany Stefan Bradl Honda 30 +41.803 10 8
9 51 Italy Michele Pirro Ducati 30 +45.710 12 7
10 45 United Kingdom Scott Redding Honda 30 +51.191 14 6
11 8 Spain Héctor Barberá Ducati 30 +56.512 17 5
12 9 Italy Danilo Petrucci ART 30 +57.000 21 4
13 69 United States Nicky Hayden Honda 30 +57.262 16 3
14 38 United Kingdom Bradley Smith Yamaha 30 +57.517 7 2
15 7 Japan Hiroshi Aoyama Honda 30 +58.775 18 1
16 19 Spain Álvaro Bautista Honda 30 +58.864 13
17 17 Czech Republic Karel Abraham Honda 30 +1:02.389 23
18 15 San Marino Alex de Angelis Forward Yamaha 30 +1:15.795 19
19 70 United Kingdom Michael Laverty PBM 30 +1:26.309 22
20 23 Australia Broc Parkes PBM 30 +1:37.212 24
21 63 France Mike Di Meglio Avintia 29 +1 lap 25
22 29 Italy Andrea Iannone Ducati 29 +1 lap 2
Ret 99 Spain Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha 24 Retirement 4
Ret 14 France Randy de Puniet Suzuki 12 Retirement 20
Ret 68 Colombia Yonny Hernández Ducati 9 Retirement 15
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos No Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 12 Switzerland Thomas Lüthi Suter 27 43:08.366 4 25
2 53 Spain Esteve Rabat Kalex 27 +0.133 1 20
3 5 France Johann Zarco Caterham Suter 27 +10.728 2 16
4 39 Spain Luis Salom Kalex 27 +13.014 10 13
5 19 Belgium Xavier Siméon Suter 27 +13.689 5 11
6 77 Switzerland Dominique Aegerter Suter 27 +14.706 11 10
7 22 United Kingdom Sam Lowes Speed Up 27 +18.825 14 9
8 23 Germany Marcel Schrötter Tech 3 27 +30.185 6 8
9 95 Australia Anthony West Speed Up 27 +30.227 23 7
10 7 Italy Lorenzo Baldassarri Suter 27 +30.604 17 6
11 81 Spain Jordi Torres Suter 27 +30.615 25 5
12 88 Spain Ricard Cardús Tech 3 27 +33.422 20 4
13 94 Germany Jonas Folger Kalex 27 +33.594 7 3
14 30 Japan Takaaki Nakagami Kalex 27 +33.997 22 2
15 96 France Louis Rossi Kalex 27 +34.007 15 1
16 55 Malaysia Hafizh Syahrin Kalex 27 +35.578 19
17 70 Switzerland Robin Mulhauser Suter 27 +35.691 26
18 18 Spain Nicolás Terol Suter 27 +46.996 29
19 14 Thailand Ratthapark Wilairot Caterham Suter 27 +50.650 28
20 44 Italy Roberto Rolfo Suter 27 +51.877 30
21 21 Italy Franco Morbidelli Kalex 27 +52.808 3
22 4 Switzerland Randy Krummenacher Suter 27 +53.428 21
23 20 France Florian Marino Kalex 27 +53.435 27
24 8 United Kingdom Gino Rea Suter 27 +1:07.704 32
25 97 Spain Román Ramos Speed Up 27 +1:13.613 33
26 45 Japan Tetsuta Nagashima NTS 27 +1:14.977 35
27 25 Malaysia Azlan Shah Kalex 27 +1:15.138 34
28 10 Thailand Thitipong Warokorn Kalex 25 +2 laps 31
Ret 54 Italy Mattia Pasini Kalex 7 Retirement 18
Ret 90 France Lucas Mahias Transfiormers 4 Accident 24
Ret 60 Spain Julián Simón Kalex 2 Accident 12
Ret 49 Spain Axel Pons Kalex 2 Accident 13
Ret 40 Spain Maverick Viñales Kalex 2 Retirement 8
Ret 36 Finland Mika Kallio Kalex 0 Accident 9
Ret 11 Germany Sandro Cortese Kalex 0 Accident 16
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos No Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 8 Australia Jack Miller KTM 24 40:10.983 2 25
2 32 Spain Isaac Viñales KTM 24 +0.155 4 20
3 12 Spain Álex Márquez Honda 24 +0.955 3 16
4 52 United Kingdom Danny Kent Husqvarna 24 +1.572 11 13
5 42 Spain Álex Rins Honda 24 +2.251 5 11
6 7 Spain Efrén Vázquez Honda 24 +2.508 9 10
7 23 Italy Niccolò Antonelli KTM 24 +3.620 1 9
8 44 Portugal Miguel Oliveira Mahindra 24 +4.216 17 8
9 41 South Africa Brad Binder Mahindra 24 +4.248 16 7
10 98 Czech Republic Karel Hanika KTM 24 +4.363 6 6
11 33 Italy Enea Bastianini KTM 24 +5.462 21 5
12 10 France Alexis Masbou Honda 24 +5.780 15 4
13 84 Czech Republic Jakub Kornfeil KTM 24 +5.959 12 3
14 5 Italy Romano Fenati KTM 24 +6.209 14 2
15 58 Spain Juan Francisco Guevara Kalex KTM 24 +6.726 10 1
16 21 Italy Francesco Bagnaia KTM 24 +11.775 20
17 17 United Kingdom John McPhee Honda 24 +16.663 8
18 16 Italy Andrea Migno Mahindra 24 +24.919 13
19 63 Malaysia Zulfahmi Khairuddin Honda 24 +28.038 26
20 13 Netherlands Jasper Iwema Mahindra 24 +28.404 23
21 19 Italy Alessandro Tonucci Mahindra 24 +28.490 19
22 43 Germany Luca Grünwald Kalex KTM 24 +40.773 28
23 38 Malaysia Hafiq Azmi KTM 24 +40.784 24
24 4 Venezuela Gabriel Ramos Kalex KTM 24 +49.329 34
25 3 Italy Matteo Ferrari Mahindra 24 +49.355 27
26 55 Italy Andrea Locatelli Mahindra 24 +52.862 30
27 6 Spain María Herrera Honda 24 +52.879 31
28 14 Spain Albert Arenas KTM 24 +1:29.792 22
Ret 31 Finland Niklas Ajo Husqvarna 20 Accident 7
Ret 99 Spain Jorge Navarro Kalex KTM 9 Accident 18
Ret 9 Netherlands Scott Deroue Kalex KTM 8 Retirement 33
Ret 95 France Jules Danilo Mahindra 7 Accident 29
Ret 91 Argentina Gabriel Rodrigo KTM 1 Accident 25
Ret 65 Germany Philipp Öttl Kalex KTM 1 Accident 32
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

References

  1. "Marquez ends season in style with record 13th victory". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  2. "Another double podium marks end of successful season for Repsol Honda". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Luthi takes the win at final round as Rabat slows on finish straight". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  4. Lewis, Lisa (9 November 2014). "Trouble for Rabat gifts Luthi surprise win". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  5. "Alex Marquez – a new World Champion in the family". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  6. "Marquez clinches title in third as Miller wins final race". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

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