2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

2018 Valencian Community Grand Prix
Race details
Race 19 of 19 races in the; 2018 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	18 November 2018
Official name	Gran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.005 km (2.489 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Maverick Viñales
Time	1:31.312
Fastest lap
Rider	Andrea Dovizioso
Time	1:41.863 on lap 6
Podium
First	Andrea Dovizioso
Second	Álex Rins
Third	Pol Espargaró
Moto2
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Luca Marini
Time	1:35.777
Fastest lap
Rider	Álex Márquez
Time	1:47.089 on lap 13
Podium
First	Miguel Oliveira
Second	Iker Lecuona
Third	Álex Márquez
Moto3
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Tony Arbolino
Time	1:46.773
Fastest lap
Rider	Tony Arbolino
Time	1:51.172 on lap 8
Podium
First	Can Öncü
Second	Jorge Martín
Third	John McPhee

The 2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the nineteenth and final round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 18 November 2018.

In the Moto3 race, Red Bull KTM Ajo wildcard Can Öncü made history by winning on his debut, becoming the youngest ever Grand Prix winner at the age of 15 years, 115 days.^[4]

In the MotoGP class, no Yamaha or Honda rider finished on the podium for the first time since the 2007 San Marino Grand Prix.

In the Moto2 class, this was the final race for the Honda CBR600RR inline-4 engine package and also the final race for the Tech 3 Mistral 610 and Suter MMX2 chassis packages that débuted at the 2010 Qatar Grand Prix, since a new 765cc (46.7 cu in) inline-3 engine supplied by Triumph Motorcycles was introduced and Tech 3 and Forward Racing switched manufacturers to KTM and MV Agusta respectively in 2019.

Classification

MotoGP

The race, scheduled to be run for 27 laps, was red-flagged after 13 full laps, as heavy rain had caused multiple riders to crash and racing conditions were deemed too dangerous. For the restart, the race distance was 14 laps.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	14	24:03.408	3	25
2	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	14	+2.750	2	20
3	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	14	+7.406	6	16
4	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati Team	Ducati	14	+8.647	12	13
5	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	14	+13.351	9	11
6	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	14	+32.288	14	10
7	5	Johann Zarco	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	14	+32.806	11	9
8	38	Bradley Smith	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	14	+33.111	22	8
9	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	14	+36.376	20	7
10	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	14	+37.198	21	6
11	45	Scott Redding	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	14	+44.326	24	5
12	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati Team	Ducati	14	+46.146	13	4
13	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	14	+52.809	16	3
14	17	Karel Abraham	Ángel Nieto Team	Ducati	14	+1:10.628	18	2
15	81	Jordi Torres	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	14	+1:16.739	23	1
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Ángel Nieto Team	Ducati	7	Accident	19
Ret	25	Maverick Viñales	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha		Did not restart	1
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Alma Pramac Racing	Ducati		Did not restart	4
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda		Did not restart	5
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki		Did not restart	7
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia		Did not restart	8
Ret	43	Jack Miller	Alma Pramac Racing	Ducati		Did not restart	10
Ret	21	Franco Morbidelli	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda		Did not restart	15
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda		Did not restart	17
DNS	10	Xavier Siméon	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati		Did not start
Sources: ^[1]^[5]^[6]

Xavier Siméon was declared unfit to start the race following two crashes in practice.

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	25	45:07.639	10	25
2	27	Iker Lecuona	KTM	25	+13.201	21	20
3	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	25	+22.175	16	16
4	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	25	+28.892	14	13
5	87	Remy Gardner	Tech 3	25	+30.106	17	11
6	20	Fabio Quartararo	Speed Up	25	+32.126	9	10
7	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	25	+33.086	3	9
8	40	Augusto Fernández	Kalex	25	+33.950	8	8
9	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	25	+35.707	18	7
10	24	Simone Corsi	Kalex	25	+37.019	13	6
11	77	Dominique Aegerter	KTM	25	+43.844	24	5
12	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	25	+45.871	20	4
13	4	Steven Odendaal	NTS	25	+49.113	22	3
14	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	25	+53.288	4	2
15	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	25	+1:08.712	12	1
16	32	Isaac Viñales	Suter	25	+1:25.666	28
17	18	Xavi Cardelús	Kalex	25	+1:32.166	29
18	95	Jules Danilo	Kalex	25	+1:47.502	30
19	21	Federico Fuligni	Kalex	24	+1 lap	27
20	3	Lukas Tulovic	Suter	24	+1 lap	31
Ret	66	Niki Tuuli	Kalex	19	Accident Damage	25
Ret	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	13	Accident Damage	2
Ret	16	Joe Roberts	NTS	8	Accident	19
Ret	70	Tommaso Marcon	Speed Up	7	Accident	26
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	5	Accident	23
Ret	41	Brad Binder	KTM	3	Accident	11
Ret	22	Sam Lowes	KTM	3	Accident	6
Ret	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	2	Accident	15
Ret	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	0	Accident	1
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	0	Accident	5
Ret	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	0	Accident	7
DNS	14	Héctor Garzó	Tech 3		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	61	Can Öncü	KTM	23	43:06.370	4	25
2	88	Jorge Martín	Honda	23	+4.071	13	20
3	17	John McPhee	KTM	23	+6.130	3	16
4	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	23	+12.897	15	13
5	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	23	+14.735	14	11
6	5	Jaume Masiá	KTM	23	+21.984	16	10
7	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	23	+26.641	25	9
8	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	23	+30.758	2	8
9	42	Marcos Ramírez	KTM	23	+33.411	7	7
10	31	Celestino Vietti	KTM	23	+39.008	23	6
11	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	23	+42.332	24	5
12	81	Stefano Nepa	KTM	23	+48.931	28	4
13	25	Raúl Fernández	KTM	23	+54.434	10	3
14	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	23	+54.585	27	2
15	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	23	+56.424	8	1
16	22	Kazuki Masaki	KTM	23	+57.222	22
17	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	23	+1:00.541	29^{[N 1]}
18	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Honda	23	+1:35.093	20
19	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	22	+1 lap	19
20	12	Marco Bezzecchi	KTM	22	+1 lap	6
Ret	77	Vicente Pérez	KTM	21	Accident	12
Ret	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	15	Handling	26
Ret	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	11	Accident	1
Ret	26	Izam Ikmal	Honda	7	Accident	30
Ret	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	6	Accident	9
Ret	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	4	Accident	21
Ret	10	Dennis Foggia	KTM	1	Accident	17
Ret	44	Arón Canet	Honda	0	Accident	5
Ret	72	Alonso López	Honda	0	Accident	11
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	0	Accident	18
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race

Bold text indicates the World Champions.

MotoGP

	Pos.	Rider	Points
	1	Marc Márquez	321
	2	Andrea Dovizioso	245
	3	Valentino Rossi	198
	4	Maverick Viñales	193
	5	Álex Rins	169
	6	Johann Zarco	158
	7	Cal Crutchlow	148
	8	Danilo Petrucci	144
1	9	Jorge Lorenzo	134
1	10	Andrea Iannone	133

Moto2

	Pos.	Rider	Points
	1	Francesco Bagnaia	306
	2	Miguel Oliveira	297
	3	Brad Binder	201
1	4	Álex Márquez	173
1	5	Lorenzo Baldassarri	162
	6	Joan Mir	155
	7	Luca Marini	147
	8	Marcel Schrötter	147
2	9	Mattia Pasini	141
	10	Fabio Quartararo	138

Moto3

	Pos.	Rider	Points
	1	Jorge Martín	260
1	2	Fabio Di Giannantonio	218
1	3	Marco Bezzecchi	214
	4	Enea Bastianini	177
	5	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	151
	6	Arón Canet	128
	7	Gabriel Rodrigo	116
	8	Jakub Kornfeil	116
	9	Albert Arenas	107
	10	Marcos Ramírez	102

Notes

^ 6-place grid penalty.

References

^ ^a ^b "2018 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
^ "2018 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
^ "Valencia Ricardo Tormo | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
^ Sports, Dorna. "Can Oncu stuns the field to create Grand Prix history". Motogp.com. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
^ "GRAN PREMIO MOTUL DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · MotoGP Race Classification 2018". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
^ "GRAN PREMIO MOTUL DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · MotoGP Race Classification 2018" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 20 November 2018.

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[7] 6-place grid penalty.

[motorsportmagazine.com-1] "2018 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.

[2] "2018 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.

[3] "Valencia Ricardo Tormo | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.

[4] Sports, Dorna. "Can Oncu stuns the field to create Grand Prix history". Motogp.com. Retrieved 2018-11-18.

[5] "GRAN PREMIO MOTUL DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · MotoGP Race Classification 2018". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2018.

[6] "GRAN PREMIO MOTUL DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · MotoGP Race Classification 2018" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 20 November 2018.

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