2013 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas

The 2013 Grand Prix of the Americas was the second round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on 21 April 2013. This was the first GP race at the circuit.

  2013 Grand Prix of the Americas

Race details
Race 2 of 18 races in the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	21 April 2013
Official name	Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas[1]
Location	Circuit of the Americas
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.513 km (3.426 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 2:03.021 Fastest lap Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 2:04.242 on lap 3 Podium First Marc Márquez Honda Second Dani Pedrosa Honda Third Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position Rider Scott Redding Kalex Time 2:10.577 Fastest lap Rider Nicolás Terol Suter Time 2:11.742 on lap 6 Podium First Nicolás Terol Suter Second Esteve Rabat Kalex Third Mika Kallio Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Álex Rins KTM Time 2:16.396 Fastest lap Rider Luis Salom KTM Time 2:16.345 on lap 7 Podium First Álex Rins KTM Second Maverick Viñales KTM Third Luis Salom KTM

Marc Márquez won his first MotoGP race, in which was only his second race in the top level, and became the youngest ever rider to win a MotoGP race.

It was the first Grand Prix since the 1982 Swedish Grand Prix where in all three categories, there were three new winners: at the Anderstorp it was Iván Palazzese (125cc), Roland Freymond (250cc) and Takazumi Katayama (500cc) who won.^[2]

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	43:42.123	1	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+1.534	2	20
3	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	21	+3.381	3	16
4	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	21	+6.616	4	13
5	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	21	+12.674	5	11
6	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	21	+16.615	8	10
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	21	+22.374	6	9
8	19	Álvaro Bautista	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	Honda	21	+22.854	7	8
9	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	21	+33.773	10	7
10	29	Andrea Iannone	Energy T.I. Pramac Racing	Ducati	21	+42.112	13	6
11	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	21	+48.837	9	5
12	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	21	+50.705	11	4
13	11	Ben Spies	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	21	+1:14.132	12	3
14	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	21	+1:15.651	14	2
15	68	Yonny Hernández	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	21	+1:19.591	16	1
16	70	Michael Laverty	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	21	+1:34.391	17
17	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Avintia Blusens	FTR	21	+1:39.823	21
18	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Blusens	FTR	21	+1:39.952	15
19	71	Claudio Corti	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	21	+1:46.773	19
20	67	Bryan Staring	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	FTR Honda	21	+1:48.084	22
21	79	Blake Young	Attack Performance Racing	APR	20	+1 lap	24
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	13	Retirement	20
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	13	Accident	23
Ret	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	11	Retirement	18
DNS	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	ART	0	Did not start
DNQ	44	Mike Barnes	GPTech	BCL	0	Did not qualify
Sources:[3][4][5]

Marc Márquez, raising his first-place trophy on the podium after winning the MotoGP race.

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	19	42:02.689	3	25
2	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	19	+3.125	4	20
3	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	19	+3.175	9	16
4	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	19	+4.873	5	13
5	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	19	+5.597	1	11
6	5	Johann Zarco	Suter	19	+9.295	17	10
7	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Up	19	+14.472	24	9
8	15	Alex de Angelis	Speed Up	19	+16.051	25	8
9	24	Toni Elías	Kalex	19	+19.696	16	7
10	63	Mike Di Meglio	Motobi	19	+20.107	18	6
11	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	19	+23.287	14	5
12	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	19	+23.547	8	4
13	81	Jordi Torres	Suter	19	+23.815	12	3
14	88	Ricard Cardús	Speed Up	19	+33.488	22	2
15	3	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	19	+35.424	6	1
16	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	19	+35.532	21
17	52	Danny Kent	Tech 3	19	+42.451	13
18	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	19	+44.314	26
19	60	Julián Simón	Kalex	19	+44.688	10
20	9	Kyle Smith	Kalex	19	+58.964	19
21	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	19	+59.940	23
22	44	Steven Odendaal	Speed Up	19	+1:00.107	30
23	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	19	+1:00.702	27
24	7	Doni Tata Pradita	Suter	19	+1:08.996	29
25	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	19	+1:24.281	20
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	19	(+9.440)[6]	11
Ret	4	Randy Krummenacher	Suter	9	Accident	15
Ret	97	Rafid Topan Sucipto	Speed Up	7	Retirement	31
Ret	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	6	Retirement	2
Ret	17	Alberto Moncayo	Speed Up	6	Retirement	28
Ret	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	3	Accident	7
DNS	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	0	Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	42	Álex Rins	KTM	5	11:26.535	1	25
2	25	Maverick Viñales	KTM	5	+0.244	3	20
3	39	Luis Salom	KTM	5	+0.547	2	16
4	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	5	+1.230	5	13
5	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	5	+8.276	18	11
6	8	Jack Miller	FTR Honda	5	+8.603	4	10
7	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	5	+10.147	12	9
8	10	Alexis Masbou	FTR Honda	5	+12.037	9	8
9	41	Brad Binder	Suter Honda	5	+12.263	14	7
10	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Kalex KTM	5	+12.737	13	6
11	99	Danny Webb	Suter Honda	5	+13.221	8	5
12	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	5	+14.030	10	4
13	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	5	+15.822	11	3
14	7	Efrén Vázquez	Mahindra	5	+16.593	15	2
15	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	5	+21.094	7	1
16	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	TSR Honda	5	+21.205	27
17	65	Philipp Öttl	Kalex KTM	5	+21.351	25
18	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Honda	5	+21.599	16
19	3	Matteo Ferrari	FTR Honda	5	+21.772	30
20	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	5	+22.003	26
21	17	John McPhee	FTR Honda	5	+23.267	28
22	4	Francesco Bagnaia	FTR Honda	5	+30.965	31
23	57	Eric Granado	Kalex KTM	5	+31.591	20
Ret	77	Lorenzo Baldassarri	FTR Honda	2	Accident	29
Ret	12	Álex Márquez	KTM	2	Retirement	6
Ret	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Kalex KTM	0	Accident	22
Ret	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	0	Did not restart	17
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	Kalex KTM	Retired during the initial part of the race.1		19
Ret	66	Florian Alt	Kalex KTM			21
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda			23
Ret	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda			24
DNS	29	Hyuga Watanabe	Honda	0	Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Notes:

• ^1 – The Moto3 race was stopped after ten laps and restarted over a distance of five laps.

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.^[7]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Márquez 41 2 Jorge Lorenzo 41 3 Dani Pedrosa 33 4 Valentino Rossi 30 5 Cal Crutchlow 24

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 41 2 Yamaha 41 3 Ducati 18 4 ART 10 5 FTR 3

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

References

1. "2013 Americas MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
2. "Spanyol Nagydíj: Programfüzet". SilverMike (in Hungarian). motorsportal.hu. 2 May 2013. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
3. "2013 Americas MotoGP – Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
4. "RED BULL GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS · MotoGP Race Classification 2013". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
5. "RED BULL GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS : MotoGP Race Classification after 21 laps = 115.773 km" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
6. "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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2015. 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.
7. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2019.

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