2012 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2012 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 August 2012 at the Brno Circuit located in Brno.

Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo, battling for the MotoGP race. Dani went on to win the race, with Jorge finishing second.

  2012 Czech Republic Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	26 August 2012
Official name	bwin Grand Prix České republiky[1][2][3]
Location	Brno Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.403 km (3.357 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Time 1:55.799 Fastest lap Rider Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Time 1:56.274 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Honda Second Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Third Cal Crutchlow Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position Rider Pol Espargaró Kalex Time 2:01.953 Fastest lap Rider Pol Espargaró Kalex Time 2:03.061 Podium First Marc Márquez Suter Second Thomas Lüthi Suter Third Pol Espargaró Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Maverick Viñales FTR Honda Time 2:08.075 Fastest lap Rider Luis Salom Kalex KTM Time 2:09.659 Podium First Jonas Folger Kalex KTM Second Luis Salom Kalex KTM Third Sandro Cortese KTM

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	42:51.570	3	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	22	+0.178	1	20
3	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+12.343	2	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	22	+18.591	5	13
5	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	22	+25.582	7	11
6	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+29.451	8	10
7	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	22	+34.514	6	9
8	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	22	+1:04.285	10	8
9	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	22	+1:08.278	9	7
10	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	22	+1:09.972	11	6
11	24	Toni Elías	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	22	+1:10.003	13	5
12	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	22	+1:24.040	12	4
13	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	22	+1:27.898	15	3
14	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	22	+1:36.165	14	2
15	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	22	+1:40.565	17	1
16	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Master	ART	22	+1:41.226	16
17	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda	21	+1 lap	19
Ret	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	9	Retirement	18
Ret	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	8	Accident	4
Sources: [4][5][6]

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	20	41:19.978	4	25
2	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	20	+0.061	2	20
3	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	20	+0.440	1	16
4	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	20	+0.510	6	13
5	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	20	+10.319	5	11
6	15	Alex de Angelis	FTR	20	+10.643	18	10
7	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	20	+10.717	10	9
8	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	20	+10.873	15	8
9	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	20	+11.047	12	7
10	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	20	+11.517	16	6
11	60	Julián Simón	Suter	20	+12.388	17	5
12	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	20	+12.603	8	4
13	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	20	+14.896	13	3
14	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	20	+17.772	9	2
15	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	20	+17.848	11	1
16	63	Mike Di Meglio	MZ-RE Honda	20	+17.906	14
17	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	20	+18.495	7
18	72	Yuki Takahashi	FTR	20	+30.630	22
19	44	Roberto Rolfo	Suter	20	+34.765	27
20	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	20	+34.892	20
21	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	20	+36.981	23
22	23	Marcel Schrötter	Bimota	20	+54.677	24
23	8	Gino Rea	Suter	20	+1:19.583	26
24	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	20	+1:23.216	28
25	57	Eric Granado	Motobi	20	+1:25.144	30
26	82	Elena Rosell	Speed Up	20	+1:32.208	31
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	20	(+34.634)[7]	25
Ret	71	Claudio Corti	Kalex	18	Accident	19
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	11	Accident	21
Ret	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	11	Accident	30
Ret	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	0	Collision	3
DNS	76	Max Neukirchner	Kalex		Injury
DNS	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR		Injury
Source:[8]

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	19	43:03.089	10	25
2	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	19	+5.918	5	20
3	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	19	+5.963	2	16
4	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	19	+6.091	1	13
5	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	19	+6.490	8	11
6	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	19	+6.572	7	10
7	52	Danny Kent	KTM	19	+8.421	9	9
8	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	19	+13.382	13	8
9	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	19	+13.909	21	7
10	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	19	+22.466	12	6
11	55	Héctor Faubel	Kalex KTM	19	+25.974	6	5
12	23	Alberto Moncayo	FTR Honda	19	+26.013	14	4
13	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	19	+26.549	15	3
14	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	19	+26.708	20	2
15	17	John McPhee	KRP Honda	19	+29.753	19	1
16	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	19	+32.949	17
17	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	19	+35.869	16
18	6	Joan Olivé	KTM	19	+40.433	24
19	43	Luca Grünwald	Honda	19	+40.951	26
20	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	19	+41.125	23
21	12	Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	19	+41.271	18
22	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	19	+45.814	32
23	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	19	+55.417	4
24	53	Jasper Iwema	FGR Honda	19	+1:25.801	27
25	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	19	+1:39.559	11
26	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	19	+1:44.620	30
27	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	19	+2:17.928	28
28	80	Armando Pontone	Ioda	18	+1 lap	31
Ret	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	14	Accident	3
Ret	95	Miroslav Popov	Mahindra	14	Accident	29
Ret	71	Michael Ruben Rinaldi	Honda	11	Retirement	25
Ret	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	10	Retirement	22
DNS	20	Riccardo Moretti	Mahindra		Injury
DNS	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda		Injury
DNS	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda		Injury
Source:[9]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.^[10]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Jorge Lorenzo 245 2 Dani Pedrosa 232 3 Casey Stoner 186 4 Andrea Dovizioso 150 5 Cal Crutchlow 122

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 271 2 Yamaha 261 3 Ducati 124 4 ART 62 5 BQR 24

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