2012 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2012 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 17 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	28 October 2012
Official name	AirAsia Australian Grand Prix
Location	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.763 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Casey Stoner	Honda
Time	1:29.623
Fastest lap
Rider	Casey Stoner	Honda
Time	1:30.191
Podium
First	Casey Stoner	Honda
Second	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Third	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Pol Espargaró	Kalex
Time	1:33.705
Fastest lap
Rider	Pol Espargaró	Kalex
Time	1:33.729
Podium
First	Pol Espargaró	Kalex
Second	Marc Márquez	Suter
Third	Scott Redding	Kalex
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Sandro Cortese	KTM
Time	1:38.334
Fastest lap
Rider	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda
Time	1:38.447
Podium
First	Sandro Cortese	KTM
Second	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda
Third	Arthur Sissis	KTM

The 2012 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventeenth and penultimate round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 26–28 October 2012 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. Jorge Lorenzo secured his second MotoGP title in the penultamite round by finishing in second place after Dani Pedrosa's retirement. Casey Stoner took the last win of his career, and his sixth successive win at his home race in the second last race before he retired. Cal Crutchlow took the second podium of his career for Tech 3 Yamaha. Marc Márquez won the Moto2 title by finishing third in his race behind winner and championship rival Pol Espargaró and the second placed Anthony West (who would eventually be removed from the results in November 2013 promoting Marquez to 2nd place^[1]). This meant that all three riders' titles had been decided with winner of the Moto3 race Sandro Cortese having secured his title the previous round in Malaysia.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Casey Stoner	Honda	27	41:01.324	1	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	27	+9.223	2	20
3	35	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	27	+14.570	4	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Yamaha	27	+23.303	6	13
5	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	27	+23.432	7	11
6	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	27	+23.467	5	10
7	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati	27	+37.113	8	9
8	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	27	+38.387	10	8
9	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	27	+52.613	11	7
10	41	Aleix Espargaró	ART	27	+1:00.299	12	6
11	14	Randy De Puniet	ART	27	+1:00.342	9	5
12	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	27	+1:21.951	13	4
13	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ioda-Suter	27	+1:27.857	15	3
14	51	Michele Pirro	FTR	26	+1 lap	14	2
15	22	Iván Silva	BQR	26	+1 lap	19	1
Ret	84	Roberto Rolfo	ART	18	Retirement	18
Ret	5	Colin Edwards	Suter	6	Retirement	16
Ret	77	James Ellison	ART	5	Accident	17
Ret	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	1	Retirement	3
DNQ	43	Kris McLaren	BQR		Did not qualify
Source:[2]

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	25	39:26.486	1	25
2	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	25	+16.837	3	20
3	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	25	+16.957	2	16
4	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	25	+26.018	12	13
5	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	25	+26.028	7	11
6	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	25	+26.091	11	10
7	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	25	+26.372	10	9
8	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	25	+26.474	6	8
9	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	25	+26.580	5	7
10	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	25	+36.520	20	6
11	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	25	+36.565	15	5
12	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	25	+36.870	18	4
13	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	25	+38.220	16	3
14	63	Mike Di Meglio	Kalex	25	+44.350	19	2
15	72	Yuki Takahashi	FTR	25	+48.586	27	1
16	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	25	+48.763	21
17	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	25	+48.768	25
18	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	25	+52.487	22
19	23	Marcel Schrötter	Bimota	25	+52.569	24
20	8	Gino Rea	Suter	25	+52.707	23
21	75	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Suter	25	+1:12.087	28
22	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	25	+1:21.455	26
23	82	Elena Rosell	Speed Up	24	+1 lap	29
24	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	24	+1 lap	30
25	57	Eric Granado	Motobi	23	+2 laps	31
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	25	(+16.811)[1]	9
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	23	Accident	14
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	23	Accident	13
Ret	60	Julián Simón	Suter	23	Retirement	17
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	17	Retirement	4
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	4	Retirement	8
DNS	15	Alex De Angelis	FTR
Source:[3]

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	23	38:20.014	1	25
2	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	23	+2.108	6	20
3	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	23	+5.031	7	16
4	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	23	+5.084	16	13
5	52	Danny Kent	KTM	23	+5.107	4	11
6	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	23	+5.109	14	10
7	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	23	+5.374	10	9
8	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	23	+5.894	3	8
9	12	Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	23	+30.783	19	7
10	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	23	+30.911	18	6
11	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	23	+32.803	2	5
12	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	23	+33.302	17	4
13	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	23	+33.479	13	3
14	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	23	+34.102	20	2
15	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	23	+43.749	9	1
16	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	23	+43.827	24
17	23	Alberto Moncayo	FTR Honda	23	+49.394	11
18	80	Armando Pontone	Ioda	23	+1:06.551	21
19	17	John McPhee	KRP Honda	23	+1:06.588	22
20	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	23	+1:08.801	12
21	8	Jack Miller	Honda	23	+1:08.908	23
22	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	23	+1:10.030	26
23	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	23	+1:10.411	25
24	75	Lincoln Gilding	Honda	23	+1:33.510	28
25	36	Sam Clarke	Honda	22	+1 lap	31
Ret	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	19	Accident	5
Ret	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	16	Retirement	30
Ret	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	14	Retirement	8
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	11	Accident	15
Ret	29	Luca Amato	Kalex KTM	8	Retirement	27
Ret	20	Riccardo Moretti	Mahindra	1	Retirement	29
DNS	28	Josep Rodríguez	FGR Honda
DNS	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda
DNS	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra
Source:[4]

References

1. 1 2 "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. 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. 
2. ↑ "AirAsia Australian Grand Prix – MotoGP – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 28 October 2012. 
3. ↑ "AirAsia Australian Grand Prix – Moto2 – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 28 October 2012. 
4. ↑ "AirAsia Australian Grand Prix – Moto3 – Race" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 28 October 2012.