2016 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2016 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 16 October 2016.

  2016 Japanese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 15 of 18 races in the 2016 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 October 2016
Official name	Motul Grand Prix of Japan[1][2][3]
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Yamaha Time 1:43.954 Fastest lap Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:45.576 on lap 6 Podium First Marc Márquez Honda Second Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Third Maverick Viñales Suzuki
Moto2
Pole position Rider Johann Zarco Kalex Time 1:49.961 Fastest lap Rider Franco Morbidelli Kalex Time 1:50.788 on lap 3 Podium First Thomas Lüthi Kalex Second Johann Zarco Kalex Third Franco Morbidelli Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Hiroki Ono[N 1] Honda Time 1:56.443 Fastest lap Rider Nicolò Bulega KTM Time 1:57.218 on lap 5 Podium First Enea Bastianini Honda Second Brad Binder KTM Third Nicolò Bulega KTM

MotoGP race report

In the MotoGP class, both factory Yamaha riders crashed out of the race, thus marking their first double retirement since the 2011 British Grand Prix.

Marc Márquez, doing a burnout and celebrating his third MotoGP world championship title after winning the race.

Classification

MotoGP

With Andrea Iannone still recovering from the injuries sustained at Misano, he was replaced in the factory Ducati team by Héctor Barberá. Australian Superbike rider Mike Jones made his MotoGP debut filling in for Barbera at Avintia Racing.^[4]

Dani Pedrosa suffered a broken collarbone in a crash during Friday practice and was replaced by Honda test rider Hiroshi Aoyama for the rest of the weekend.^[5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	42:34.610	2	25
2	04	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	+2.992	4	20
3	25	Maverick Viñales	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	24	+4.104	7	16
4	41	Aleix Espargaró	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	24	+4.726	6	13
5	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	24	+15.049	5	11
6	44	Pol Espargaró	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+19.654	9	10
7	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	24	+23.032	12	9
8	9	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	Ducati	24	+28.555	10	8
9	45	Scott Redding	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	Ducati	24	+28.802	11	7
10	6	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	24	+32.330	13	6
11	21	Katsuyuki Nakasuga	Yamalube Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	24	+42.845	16	5
12	68	Yonny Hernández	Pull & Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	24	+52.219	17	4
13	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+53.783	15	3
14	53	Tito Rabat	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	24	+54.760	18	2
15	73	Hiroshi Aoyama	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+1:00.155	22	1
16	76	Loris Baz	Avintia Racing	Ducati	24	+1:04.440	20
17	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	+1:42.966	8
18	7	Mike Jones	Avintia Racing	Ducati	23	+1 lap	21
Ret	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	19	Accident	3
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	6	Accident	1
Ret	43	Jack Miller	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	6	Accident	14
Ret	50	Eugene Laverty	Pull & Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	2	Accident	19
WD	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda		Withdrew
Sources: [6][7][8]

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	23	42:45.854	2	25
2	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	23	+0.386	1	20
3	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	23	+5.863	3	16
4	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	+6.090	7	13
5	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	23	+16.246	5	11
6	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	23	+20.404	13	10
7	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	23	+20.683	10	9
8	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	23	+20.760	16	8
9	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	23	+24.394	11	7
10	19	Xavier Siméon	Speed Up	23	+27.113	17	6
11	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	23	+30.158	18	5
12	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	23	+32.283	26	4
13	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	23	+32.391	12	3
14	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	23	+35.348	24	2
15	32	Isaac Viñales	Tech 3	23	+35.486	20	1
16	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	23	+39.558	21
17	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	23	+39.690	19
18	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Kalex	23	+45.258	25
19	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	23	+47.910	23
20	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	23	+1:04.723	22
21	63	Naomichi Uramoto	Kalex	23	+1:05.916	29
22	84	Taro Sekiguchi	TSR	23	+1:26.636	30
Ret	27	Iker Lecuona	Kalex	14	Accident Damage	28
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	13	Accident Damage	6
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	10	Accident Damage	14
Ret	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	7	Accident	8
Ret	52	Danny Kent	Kalex	7	Gear Shifter	15
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	4	Accident	9
Ret	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	1	Accident	4
Ret	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	1	Accident	27
DNS	44	Miguel Oliveira	Kalex		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

• Miguel Oliveira withdrew after the first practice session due to effects of the broken collarbone suffered at Aragon GP.

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	20	39:24.273	3	25
2	41	Brad Binder	KTM	20	+0.017	2	20
3	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	20	+4.002	5	16
4	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	20	+5.119	10	13
5	4	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	20	+6.288	18	11
6	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	20	+7.739	12	10
7	11	Livio Loi	Honda	20	+7.749	15	9
8	20	Fabio Quartararo	KTM	20	+8.344	8	8
9	36	Joan Mir	KTM	20	+8.880	14	7
10	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	20	+9.037	7	6
11	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	KTM	20	+12.332	6	5
12	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	20	+13.525	9	4
13	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Honda	20	+18.818	21	3
14	12	Albert Arenas	Peugeot	20	+21.263	13	2
15	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	20	+21.291	25	1
16	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	20	+21.727	24
17	42	Marcos Ramírez	Mahindra	20	+34.475	26
18	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	20	+39.950	27
19	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	20	+40.177	22
20	3	Fabio Spiranelli	Mahindra	20	+46.804	32
21	77	Lorenzo Petrarca	Mahindra	20	+49.085	31
22	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	20	+52.570	28
23	6	María Herrera	KTM	20	+52.682	30
24	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	20	+1:16.774	1
25	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	20	+1:22.102	20
26	13	Shizuka Okazaki	Honda	20	+1:51.623	34
Ret	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	10	Rider In Pain	23
Ret	44	Arón Canet	Honda	9	Accident	17
Ret	55	Andrea Locatelli	KTM	4	Accident	29
Ret	43	Stefano Valtulini	Mahindra	3	Accident	33
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	0	Accident	11
Ret	17	John McPhee	Peugeot	0	Accident	16
Ret	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	0	Accident	19
DSQ	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	20	(+2.654)[N 2]	4
DNS	15	Rei Sato	Honda		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fifteen has concluded.^[9]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Marquez 273 2 Valentino Rossi 196 3 Jorge Lorenzo 182 4 Maverick Vinales 165 5 Dani Pedrosa 155

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 316 2 Yamaha 288 3 Ducati 207 4 Suzuki 171 5 Aprilia 81

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

Notes

1. Hiroki Ono, who set the fastest time in qualifying, received a grid penalty which promoted Andrea Migno to the pole position grid slot.
2. Disqualified due to a technical infringement.