2012 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2012 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and final round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 9–11 November 2012 at the Circuito Ricardo Tormo.

  2012 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 18 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	11 November 2012
Official name	Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:30.844 Fastest lap Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:33.119 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Honda Second Katsuyuki Nakasuga Yamaha Third Casey Stoner Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Pol Espargaró Kalex Time 1:35.191 Fastest lap Rider Marc Márquez Suter Time 1:46.440 Podium First Marc Márquez Suter Second Julián Simón Suter Third Nicolás Terol Suter
Moto3
Pole position Rider Jonas Folger Kalex-KTM Time 1:41.263 Fastest lap Rider Zulfahmi Khairuddin KTM Time 1:49.622 Podium First Danny Kent KTM Second Sandro Cortese KTM Third Zulfahmi Khairuddin KTM

The race was Casey Stoner's last before his retirement from the sport, and he finished it on the podium in third position. Dani Pedrosa won the race for Honda and ensure the season ended with 18 points between himself and new champion Jorge Lorenzo, who retired from the race, at the top of the riders' standings. The result meant that Pedrosa had won 6 of the last 8 races, and that Lorenzo maintained his record of finishing first or second in every race he finished in 2012. Katsuyuki Nakasuga made just his second appearance in 2012 in place of the injured Ben Spies at Yamaha, and took advantage of the wet conditions to finish in second place (the only podium for a Japanese rider in any class in 2012).

Marc Márquez won the Moto2 race, despite starting from 33rd on the grid, although he had moved up to 13th within the first three corners. It was Márquez's last Moto2 race, as he would replace Stoner at the Honda team for the 2013 season. Polesitter Pol Espargaró secured second in the championship behind Márquez by finishing in eighth. Julián Simón and Nicolás Terol (who took his first Moto2 podium) completed an all Spanish podium. Danny Kent took his second victory of the Moto3 season in front of champion Sandro Cortese and Zulfahmi Khairuddin to complete an all KTM podium.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	48:23.819	1	25
2	21	Katsuyuki Nakasuga	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	30	+37.661	16	20
3	1	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+1:00.633	3	16
4	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+1:02.811	8	13
5	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	30	+1:26.608	15	11
6	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+1:30.423	6	10
7	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	30	+1:31.789	13	9
8	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	-Ioda-Suter	29	+1 lap	17	8
9	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	29	+1 lap	20	7
10	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	29	+1 lap	11	6
11	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	29	+1 lap	10	5
12	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	28	+2 laps	12	4
13	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Avintia Blusens	BQR	28	+2 laps	21	3
14	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	27	+3 laps	14	2
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	Accident	4
Ret	71	Claudio Corti	Avintia Blusens	Inmotec	17	Accident	22
Ret	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	16	Accident	9
Ret	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	13	Accident	2
Ret	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	9	Accident	5
Ret	84	Roberto Rolfo	Speed Master	ART	6	Accident	19
Ret	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	2	Accident	18
Ret	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	2	Accident	7
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Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	27	48:50.706	33	25
2	60	Julián Simón	Suter	27	+1.256	11	20
3	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	27	+11.372	4	16
4	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	27	+13.006	2	13
5	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	27	+13.825	6	11
6	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	27	+27.911	5	10
7	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	27	+36.338	15	9
8	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	27	+38.335	1	8
9	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	27	+39.419	14	7
10	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	27	+39.476	13	6
11	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	27	+40.207	9	5
12	8	Gino Rea	Suter	27	+41.197	19	4
13	17	Dani Rivas	Kalex	27	+41.768	26	3
14	72	Yuki Takahashi	FTR	27	+41.943	17	2
15	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	27	+42.303	28	1
16	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	27	+43.064	21
17	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	27	+49.970	8
18	75	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Suter	27	+51.639	27
19	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	27	+53.198	18
20	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	27	+54.632	25
21	23	Marcel Schrötter	Bimota	27	+56.401	24
22	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	27	+56.974	7
23	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	27	+59.679	29
24	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	27	+1:16.201	23
25	54	Mattia Pasini	FTR	27	+1:16.352	22
26	28	Román Ramos	FTR	27	+1:18.354	20
27	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	27	+1:26.234	12
28	63	Mike Di Meglio	Kalex	27	+1:29.530	16
29	57	Eric Granado	Motobi	26	+1 lap	31
30	97	Rafid Topan Sucipto	Speed Up	25	+2 laps	30
Ret	82	Elena Rosell	Speed Up	17	Accident	32
Ret	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	14	Retirement	3
Ret	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	10	Accident	10
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Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	52	Danny Kent	KTM	24	45:05.891	7	25
2	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	24	+0.056	4	20
3	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	24	+0.114	17	16
4	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	24	+0.431	15	13
5	55	Héctor Faubel	FTR Honda	24	+4.371	16	11
6	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	24	+7.605	9	10
7	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	24	+14.931	14	9
8	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	24	+18.495	5	8
9	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	24	+23.180	22	7
10	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	24	+23.245	3	6
11	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	24	+27.532	26	5
12	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	FTR Honda	24	+30.331	21	4
13	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	24	+31.255	8	3
14	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	24	+34.660	10	2
15	28	Josep Rodríguez	FGR Honda	24	+50.522	30	1
16	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	24	+50.554	18
17	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	24	+51.725	28
18	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	24	+51.826	11
19	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	24	+52.970	19
20	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	24	+57.930	23
21	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	24	+1:00.758	24
22	29	Luca Amato	Kalex KTM	24	+1:47.794	20
23	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	24	+1:47.977	33
24	80	Armando Pontone	Ioda	23	+1 lap	31
Ret	8	Jack Miller	Honda	19	Accident	25
Ret	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	19	Accident	27
Ret	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	18	Retirement	34
Ret	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	15	Accident	2
Ret	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	15	Accident	6
Ret	95	Miroslav Popov	Mahindra	9	Retirement	35
Ret	17	John McPhee	KRP Honda	9	Retirement	29
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	7	Retirement	1
Ret	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	7	Retirement	13
Ret	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	4	Retirement	32
Ret	12	Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	3	Accident	12
Source:

Notes

Marc Márquez's comeback from 33rd to the win was the biggest comeback in all of the history in the Championship.

Dani Pedrosa, who made the pole position in MotoGP, started the race from the pit lane because he entered to the boxes for a bike change because the tarmac was drying, like Alvaro Bautista, Nicky Hayden and Cal Crutchlow. The Spanish rider, despite this, won the race after Jorge Lorenzo crashed heavily when the Yamaha rider tried to lap James Ellison.

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Jorge Lorenzo	350
2	Dani Pedrosa	332
3	Casey Stoner	254
4	Andrea Dovizioso	218
5	Álvaro Bautista	178

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	412
2	Yamaha	386
3	Ducati	192
4	ART	100
5	FTR	43

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