2009 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
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Race 3 of 17 races in the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 3 May 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Gran Premio bwin.com de España[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Circuito de Jerez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2009 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 May 2009 at the Circuito de Jerez located in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
Report
[edit]In the MotoGP race, Valentino Rossi achieved his first win of the season to go top of the world championship standings, the world champion came home ahead of home favourite Dani Pedrosa, with Casey Stoner in third place.[2] In the 250cc race, Hiroshi Aoyama capitalised on a late mistake of another home favourite, Álvaro Bautista, to take his first win since the 2007 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix.[3] In the 125cc race, British rider Bradley Smith dominated the race to achieve his first victory at the 50th attempt, after title rivals Andrea Iannone and Julián Simón both crashed.[4]
MotoGP classification
[edit]Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 27 | 45:18.557 | 4 | 25 |
2 | 3 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +2.700 | 2 | 20 |
3 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 27 | +10.507 | 3 | 16 |
4 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 27 | +31.893 | 5 | 13 |
5 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Hayate Racing Team | Kawasaki | 27 | +33.128 | 11 | 11 |
6 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 27 | +34.128 | 6 | 10 |
7 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +34.421 | 7 | 9 |
8 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +34.625 | 8 | 8 |
9 | 24 | Toni Elías | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 27 | +42.689 | 9 | 7 |
10 | 7 | Chris Vermeulen | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 27 | +45.183 | 10 | 6 |
11 | 59 | Sete Gibernau | Grupo Francisco Hernando | Ducati | 27 | +48.192 | 12 | 5 |
12 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Scot Racing Team MotoGP | Honda | 27 | +51.875 | 13 | 4 |
13 | 52 | James Toseland | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +53.683 | 14 | 3 |
14 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 27 | +53.941 | 15 | 2 |
15 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 27 | +1:01.237 | 16 | 1 |
16 | 88 | Niccolò Canepa | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 27 | +1:10.896 | 18 | |
Ret | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 23 | Retirement | 1 | |
Ret | 36 | Mika Kallio | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 12 | Retirement | 17 | |
Sources: [5][6][7] |
250 cc classification
[edit]Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 26 | 45:08.805 | 6 | 25 |
2 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 26 | +0.132 | 4 | 20 |
3 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 26 | +2.706 | 3 | 16 |
4 | 40 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 26 | +2.769 | 2 | 13 |
5 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Aprilia | 26 | +17.946 | 8 | 11 |
6 | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 26 | +17.950 | 15 | 10 |
7 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Aprilia | 26 | +26.288 | 10 | 9 |
8 | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 26 | +26.472 | 5 | 8 |
9 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Gilera | 26 | +27.646 | 16 | 7 |
10 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Honda | 26 | +32.369 | 12 | 6 |
11 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Aprilia | 26 | +32.617 | 7 | 5 |
12 | 48 | Shoya Tomizawa | Honda | 26 | +34.241 | 17 | 4 |
13 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Aprilia | 26 | +36.889 | 11 | 3 |
14 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Honda | 26 | +37.237 | 9 | 2 |
15 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Honda | 26 | +1:16.786 | 13 | 1 |
16 | 10 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 26 | +1:25.509 | 19 | |
17 | 8 | Bastien Chesaux | Honda | 25 | +1 lap | 22 | |
18 | 77 | Aitor Rodríguez | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 20 | |
19 | 56 | Vladimir Leonov | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 23 | |
20 | 53 | Valentin Debise | Honda | 25 | +1 lap | 24 | |
Ret | 7 | Axel Pons | Aprilia | 22 | Retirement | 21 | |
Ret | 76 | Iván Maestro | Aprilia | 18 | Retirement | 25 | |
Ret | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 18 | |
Ret | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 9 | Accident | 1 | |
Ret | 17 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 14 | |
DNQ | 54 | Toby Markham | Honda | Did not qualify | |||
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT |
125 cc classification
[edit]Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Aprilia | 23 | 41:49.556 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 23 | +13.524 | 5 | 20 |
3 | 93 | Marc Márquez | KTM | 23 | +13.553 | 4 | 16 |
4 | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia | 23 | +14.251 | 7 | 13 |
5 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Derbi | 23 | +14.758 | 15 | 11 |
6 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Derbi | 23 | +15.545 | 9 | 10 |
7 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Derbi | 23 | +15.556 | 10 | 9 |
8 | 99 | Danny Webb | Aprilia | 23 | +17.772 | 8 | 8 |
9 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Derbi | 23 | +18.960 | 6 | 7 |
10 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Aprilia | 23 | +19.053 | 18 | 6 |
11 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Derbi | 23 | +32.480 | 11 | 5 |
12 | 12 | Esteve Rabat | Aprilia | 23 | +32.554 | 16 | 4 |
13 | 14 | Johann Zarco | Aprilia | 23 | +33.378 | 19 | 3 |
14 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 23 | +41.533 | 12 | 2 |
15 | 16 | Cameron Beaubier | KTM | 23 | +44.443 | 17 | 1 |
16 | 73 | Takaaki Nakagami | Aprilia | 23 | +44.738 | 21 | |
17 | 35 | Randy Krummenacher | Aprilia | 23 | +44.934 | 13 | |
18 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 23 | +44.977 | 26 | |
19 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 23 | +55.464 | 3 | |
20 | 69 | Lukáš Šembera | Aprilia | 23 | +1:05.314 | 23 | |
21 | 32 | Lorenzo Savadori | Aprilia | 23 | +1:07.420 | 22 | |
22 | 42 | Alberto Moncayo | Aprilia | 23 | +1:16.825 | 25 | |
23 | 39 | Luis Salom | Honda | 23 | +1:25.188 | 29 | |
24 | 53 | Jasper Iwema | Honda | 23 | +1:28.903 | 24 | |
25 | 87 | Luca Marconi | Aprilia | 23 | +1:29.012 | 28 | |
26 | 41 | Borja Maestro | Aprilia | 22 | +1 lap | 30 | |
27 | 31 | Jordi Dalmau | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 34 | |
28 | 40 | Eduard López | Aprilia | 22 | +1 lap | 33 | |
Ret | 94 | Jonas Folger | Aprilia | 21 | Accident | 35 | |
Ret | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Loncin | 21 | Accident | 20 | |
Ret | 5 | Alexis Masbou | Loncin | 13 | Retirement | 27 | |
Ret | 17 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia | 8 | Retirement | 14 | |
Ret | 60 | Julián Simón | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 1 | |
DNS | 88 | Michael Ranseder | Haojue | 0 | Did not start | 32 | |
DSQ | 10 | Luca Vitali | Aprilia | 10 | Black flag | 31 | |
DNQ | 66 | Matthew Hoyle | Haojue | Did not qualify | |||
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT |
Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
[edit]Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round three has concluded.[8]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
[edit]- ^ "2009 Spanish MotoGP". Motorpsortmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ "Rossi secures Spanish GP triumph". BBC Sport. BBC. 2009-05-03. Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ Beer, Matt (2009-05-03). "Aoyama beats Bautista to 250cc win". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ Beer, Matt (2009-05-03). "Smith claims first 125cc victory". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 6 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ "2009 Spanish MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017.
- ^ "Classification" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. 2009.
- ^ "motogp.com · GRAN PREMIO bwin.com DE ESPAÑA · MotoGP Race Classification 2009". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ^ "World Championship Classification" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 24 August 2019.