2017 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2017 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and final round of the 2017 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 12 November 2017.

  2017 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 18 of 18 races in the 2017 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	12 November 2017
Official name	Gran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana[1]
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:29.897 Fastest lap Rider Johann Zarco Yamaha Time 1:31.576 on lap 4 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Honda Second Johann Zarco Yamaha Third Marc Márquez Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Álex Márquez Kalex Time 1:35.050 Fastest lap Rider Franco Morbidelli Kalex Time 1:35.628 on lap 7 Podium First Miguel Oliveira KTM Second Franco Morbidelli Kalex Third Brad Binder KTM
Moto3
Pole position Rider Jorge Martín Honda Time 1:38.428 Fastest lap Rider Marcos Ramírez KTM Time 1:39.109 on lap 2 Podium First Jorge Martín Honda Second Joan Mir Honda Third Marcos Ramírez KTM

In the MotoGP class, Dani Pedrosa took the victory after overtaking Johann Zarco on the final lap, while Marc Márquez clinched his fourth premier class title and sixth overall with a third place finish after rival Andrea Dovizioso crashed out. The victory would prove to be Pedrosa's last in MotoGP, as well as his final podium finish.

In the Moto3 class, this was the final race for both the Peugeot and Mahindra MGP3O chassis packages, as the teams that used those bikes, CIP, Ángel Nieto Team, and Redox PrüstelGP all switched to KTM for 2018.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	46:08.125	5	25
2	5	Johann Zarco	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+0.337	2	20
3	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+10.861	1	16
4	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	30	+13.567	10	13
5	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	30	+13.817	7	11
6	29	Andrea Iannone	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	30	+14.516	3	10
7	43	Jack Miller	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	30	+17.087	12	9
8	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	30	+17.230	16	8
9	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati Team	Ducati	30	+25.942	6	7
10	53	Tito Rabat	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	30	+27.020	14	6
11	38	Bradley Smith	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	30	+30.835	17	5
12	25	Maverick Viñales	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	30	+35.012	13	4
13	9	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	30	+38.076	15	3
14	17	Karel Abraham	Pull&Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	30	+41.988	18	2
15	8	Héctor Barberá	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	30	+47.703	20	1
16	76	Loris Baz	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	30	+47.709	23
17	60	Michael van der Mark	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+52.134	25
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	25	Accident	11[N 1]
Ret	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	25	Retired	9
Ret	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	Accident	4
Ret	22	Sam Lowes	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	22	Accident	24
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Pull&Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	14	Accident	21
Ret	45	Scott Redding	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	4	Accident	22
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	3	Accident	8
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	2	Accident	19
Sources: [2][3][4]

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	27	43:15.843	4	25
2	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	27	+2.154	2	20
3	41	Brad Binder	KTM	27	+4.181	5	16
4	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	27	+11.181	8	13
5	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	27	+12.146	1	11
6	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	27	+14.595	11	10
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	27	+18.446	7	9
8	40	Fabio Quartararo	Kalex	27	+22.188	16	8
9	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	27	+23.592	19	7
10	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	27	+23.751	6	6
11	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	27	+27.388	12	5
12	32	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	27	+29.688	15	4
13	23	Marcel Schrötter	Suter	27	+31.442	10	3
14	37	Augusto Fernández	Speed Up	27	+32.933	21	2
15	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	27	+33.150	31	1
16	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	27	+34.335	25[N 2]
17	51	Eric Granado	Kalex	27	+34.731	18
18	27	Iker Lecuona	Kalex	27	+39.828	22
19	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	27	+39.940	3
20	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	27	+42.678	28
21	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	27	+43.275	20
22	87	Remy Gardner	Tech 3	27	+51.990	24
23	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	27	+54.931	26
24	6	Tarran Mackenzie	Suter	27	+1:09.494	32
25	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	27	+1:10.070	29
26	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	27	+1:33.876	17
Ret	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	16	Accident	9
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	11	Accident	23
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Suter	8	Accident	13
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	7	Retired	30
Ret	88	Ricard Cardús	Kalex	6	Accident	14
Ret	62	Stefano Manzi	Kalex	2	Accident	27
DNS	94	Jake Dixon	Suter		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	88	Jorge Martín	Honda	24	40:02.193	1	25
2	36	Joan Mir	Honda	24	+3.760	2	20
3	42	Marcos Ramírez	KTM	24	+3.877	8	16
4	5	Romano Fenati	Honda	24	+3.953	13	13
5	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	24	+3.999	5	11
6	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	24	+4.940	11	10
7[N 3]	10	Dennis Foggia	KTM	24	+4.735	15	9
8	17	John McPhee	Honda	24	+5.071	22	8
9	44	Arón Canet	Honda	24	+5.218	6	7
10	39	Kazuki Masaki	Honda	24	+6.462	18	6
11	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	24	+6.544	4	5
12	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	24	+6.633	10	4
13	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	24	+8.687	7	3
14	23	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM	24	+16.100	14	2
15	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	24	+16.156	16	1
16	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	24	+16.263	24
17	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	24	+16.398	12
18	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Peugeot	24	+33.128	25
19	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	24	+33.807	21
20	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Mahindra	24	+34.360	19
21	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	24	+34.629	31
22[N 3]	96	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	24	+34.403	23
23	75	Albert Arenas	Mahindra	24	+34.958	17
24	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	24	+35.730	20
25	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	24	+39.331	29
26	6	María Herrera	KTM	24	+46.209	30
27	11	Livio Loi	Honda	24	+51.534	27[N 1]
28	12	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	24	+1:17.109	28
29	4	Patrik Pulkkinen	Peugeot	23	+1 lap	26
Ret	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	7	Retired	9
Ret	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	2	Accident	3
DNS	40	Darryn Binder	KTM		Did not start
DNS	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM		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 eighteen has concluded.^[5]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Márquez 298 2 Andrea Dovizioso 261 3 Maverick Viñales 230 4 Dani Pedrosa 210 5 Valentino Rossi 208

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 357 2 Yamaha 321 3 Ducati 310 4 Suzuki 100 5 KTM 69

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

Moto2

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Franco Morbidelli	308
2	Thomas Lüthi	243
3	Miguel Oliveira	241
4	Álex Márquez	201
5	Francesco Bagnaia	174
6	Mattia Pasini	148
7	Takaaki Nakagami	137
8	Brad Binder	125
9	Simone Corsi	117
10	Hafizh Syahrin	106

Moto3

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Joan Mir	341
2	Romano Fenati	248
3	Arón Canet	199
4	Jorge Martín	196
5	Fabio Di Giannantonio	153
6	Enea Bastianini	141
7	John McPhee	131
8	Marcos Ramírez	123
9	Andrea Migno	118
10	Philipp Öttl	105

Notes

1. Pit lane start penalty.
2. 3-place grid penalty.
3. 1-place penalty for exceeding track limits.