2011 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2011 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the opening round of the 2011 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 17–20 March 2011 at the Losail International Circuit located in Doha, Qatar. In the MotoGP race Casey Stoner won finishing 3.44 seconds ahead of 2010 world champion Jorge Lorenzo with Dani Pedrosa in third place.^[2]

  2011 Qatar Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 18 races in the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 March 2011
Official name	Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar[1]
Location	Losail International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.380 km (3.343 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Casey Stoner Honda Time 1:54.137 Fastest lap Rider Casey Stoner Honda Time 1:55.366 Podium First Casey Stoner Honda Second Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Third Dani Pedrosa Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Stefan Bradl Kalex Time 2:00.168 Fastest lap Rider Alex de Angelis Motobi Time 2:01.003 Podium First Stefan Bradl Kalex Second Andrea Iannone Suter Third Thomas Lüthi Suter
125cc
Pole position Rider Nicolás Terol Aprilia Time 2:06.605 Fastest lap Rider Nicolás Terol Aprilia Time 2:06.463 Podium First Nicolás Terol Aprilia Second Sandro Cortese Aprilia Third Sergio Gadea Aprilia

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	42:38.569	1	25
2	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	22	+3.440	3	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	+5.051	2	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	+5.942	7	13
5	58	Marco Simoncelli	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+7.358	4	11
6	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	22	+10.468	5	10
7	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	22	+16.431	9	9
8	5	Colin Edwards	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+26.293	10	8
9	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	22	+27.416	13	7
10	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+28.920	12	6
11	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+34.539	8	5
12	8	Héctor Barberá	Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP	Ducati	22	+34.829	6	4
13	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	22	+37.957	15	3
Ret	24	Toni Elías	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	18	Accident	16
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	1	Retirement	14
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	0	Accident	11
DNS	19	Álvaro Bautista	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki		Injured
Sources: [3][4][5]

Moto2 classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	65	Stefan Bradl	Kalex	20	40:38.549	1	25
2	29	Andrea Iannone	Suter	20	+4.330	16	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	20	+5.137	3	16
4	15	Alex de Angelis	Motobi	20	+5.925	8	13
5	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	20	+6.621	4	11
6	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	20	+14.217	11	10
7	16	Jules Cluzel	Suter	20	+14.257	5	9
8	51	Michele Pirro	Moriwaki	20	+14.501	9	8
9	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	20	+18.910	7	7
10	60	Julián Simón	Suter	20	+19.174	6	6
11	40	Aleix Espargaró	Pons Kalex	20	+19.442	14	5
12	68	Yonny Hernández	FTR	20	+20.830	20	4
13	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	20	+20.837	15	3
14	34	Esteve Rabat	FTR	20	+20.855	17	2
15	76	Max Neukirchner	MZ-RE Honda	20	+26.803	12	1
16	80	Axel Pons	Pons Kalex	20	+27.295	23
17	88	Ricard Cardús	Moriwaki	20	+28.080	22
18	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Suter	20	+28.212	28
19	63	Mike Di Meglio	Tech 3	20	+34.939	19
20	36	Mika Kallio	Suter	20	+34.962	25
21	71	Claudio Corti	Suter	20	+37.982	18
22	44	Pol Espargaró	FTR	20	+43.491	24
23	53	Valentin Debise	FTR	20	+43.659	26
24	9	Kenny Noyes	FTR	20	+47.476	34
25	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	20	+47.755	35
26	21	Javier Forés	Suter	20	+50.355	21
27	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	20	+50.544	29
28	25	Alex Baldolini	Suter	20	+1:04.879	31
29	39	Robertino Pietri	Suter	20	+1:09.672	30
30	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Moriwaki	20	+1:09.781	36
31	45	Scott Redding	Suter	20	+1:23.743	10
32	96	Nasser Al Malki	Moriwaki	20	+1:39.105	39
Ret	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	FTR	10	Accident	27
Ret	49	Kev Coghlan	FTR	6	Accident	33
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	4	Accident	2
Ret	64	Santiago Hernández	FTR	4	Accident	32
Ret	13	Anthony West	MZ-RE Honda	4	Accident	37
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	FTR	3	Accident	13
Ret	95	Mashel Al Naimi	Moriwaki	0	Accident	38
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	18	38:28.687	1	25
2	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	18	+7.710	2	20
3	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	18	+9.147	4	16
4	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	18	+9.514	3	13
5	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	18	+9.698	6	11
6	5	Johann Zarco	Derbi	18	+15.260	7	10
7	23	Alberto Moncayo	Aprilia	18	+15.352	8	9
8	39	Luis Salom	Aprilia	18	+15.696	10	8
9	25	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	18	+15.910	9	7
10	44	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	18	+27.396	12	6
11	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	18	+42.563	5	5
12	53	Jasper Iwema	Aprilia	18	+43.772	21	4
13	52	Danny Kent	Aprilia	18	+44.001	13	3
14	15	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	18	+44.272	14	2
15	96	Louis Rossi	Aprilia	18	+50.030	11	1
16	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	18	+50.424	23
17	31	Niklas Ajo	Aprilia	18	+1:01.545	16
18	17	Taylor Mackenzie	Aprilia	18	+1:02.931	20
19	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Derbi	18	+1:05.192	17
20	3	Luigi Morciano	Aprilia	18	+1:05.273	19
21	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	18	+1:05.396	22
22	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Aprilia	18	+1:12.458	24
23	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Aprilia	18	+1:30.629	26
24	12	Daniel Kartheininger	KTM	18	+1:30.792	29
25	21	Harry Stafford	Aprilia	18	+1:30.798	28
26	30	Giulian Pedone	Aprilia	18	+1:54.387	27
27	43	Francesco Mauriello	Aprilia	18	+1:54.548	30
28	26	Adrián Martín	Aprilia	14	+4 laps	15
Ret	36	Joan Perelló	Aprilia	9	Retirement	25
Ret	76	Hiroki Ono	KTM	7	Retirement	18
DNQ	69	Sarath Kumar	Aprilia		Did not qualify
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.^[6]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Casey Stoner 25 2 Jorge Lorenzo 20 3 Dani Pedrosa 16 4 Andrea Dovizioso 13 5 Marco Simoncelli 11

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 25 2 Yamaha 20 3 Ducati 9

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