2017 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2017 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2017 MotoGP season. It was held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Phillip Island on 22 October 2017.

Marc Márquez, celebrating on the podium after winning the MotoGP race.

  2017 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 18 races in the 2017 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	22 October 2017
Official name	Michelin Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix[1][2][3]
Location	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.764 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:28.386 Fastest lap Rider Johann Zarco Yamaha Time 1:29.572 on lap 2 Podium First Marc Márquez Honda Second Valentino Rossi Yamaha Third Maverick Viñales Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position Rider Mattia Pasini Kalex Time 1:33.300 Fastest lap Rider Brad Binder KTM Time 1:33.864 on lap 24 Podium First Miguel Oliveira KTM Second Brad Binder KTM Third Franco Morbidelli Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Jorge Martín Honda Time 1:37.030 Fastest lap Rider Gabriel Rodrigo KTM Time 1:37.898 on lap 7 Podium First Joan Mir Honda Second Livio Loi Honda Third Jorge Martín Honda

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	40:49.772	1	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	27	+1.799	7	20
3	25	Maverick Viñales	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	27	+1.826	2	16
4	5	Johann Zarco	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+1.842	3	13
5	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	27	+3.845	10	11
6	29	Andrea Iannone	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	27	+3.871	4	10
7	43	Jack Miller	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	27	+5.619	5	9
8	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	27	+12.208	13	8
9	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	27	+16.251	6	7
10	38	Bradley Smith	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	27	+16.262	9	6
11	45	Scott Redding	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	27	+21.652	20	5
12	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	+21.668	12	4
13	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	27	+21.692	11	3
14	17	Karel Abraham	Pull&Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	27	+26.110	15	2
15	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati Team	Ducati	27	+26.168	16	1
16	53	Tito Rabat	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	27	+26.252	14
17	19	Álvaro Bautista	Pull&Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	27	+36.377	22
18	76	Loris Baz	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	27	+39.654	17
19	22	Sam Lowes	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	27	+40.400	23
20	8	Héctor Barberá	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	27	+45.901	19
21	9	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	27	+48.768	18
22	23	Broc Parkes	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	27	+57.711	21
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	7	Accident	8
Sources:[4][5][6]

Moto2 race report

Miguel Oliveira took his first victory in the Moto2 class and became the first Portuguese rider to win in the intermediate class. KTM took their first victory in Moto2, the first in the intermediate class since the 250cc 2008 British Grand Prix; this ended Kalex winning streak, which had started at the 2015 Argentine Grand Prix.

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	25	39:25.920	3	25
2	41	Brad Binder	KTM	25	+2.974	4	20
3	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	25	+3.846	5	16
4	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	25	+7.348	9	13
5	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	25	+7.403	12	11
6	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	25	+12.125	6	10
7	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	25	+12.217	15	9
8	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	25	+12.244	8	8
9	11	Sandro Cortese	Suter	25	+12.475	13	7
10	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	25	+12.605	10	6
11	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	25	+12.971	14	5
12	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	25	+20.887	17	4
13	62	Stefano Manzi	Kalex	25	+28.821	21	3
14	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	25	+31.214	19	2
15	87	Remy Gardner	Tech 3	25	+34.678	16	1
16	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	25	+34.911	23
17	37	Augusto Fernández	Speed Up	25	+35.694	24
18	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	25	+56.487	27
19	32	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	25	+56.528	25
20	27	Iker Lecuona	Kalex	25	+56.550	26
21	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	25	+57.548	28
22	6	Tarran Mackenzie	Suter	25	+1:01.191	29
23	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	25	+1:39.824	30
Ret	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	Accident	7
Ret	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	23	Retired	22
Ret	40	Fabio Quartararo	Kalex	5	Accident	20
Ret	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	2	Accident	11
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	2	Accident	18
Ret	23	Marcel Schrötter	Suter	1	Accident	2
Ret	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	1	Collision	1
DNS	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

The race, scheduled to be run for 23 laps, was red-flagged on lap 16 due to a rain shower that fell on certain parts of the track. As the race already went through two-thirds of race distance, the race was stopped and the final results were taken at the end of the 15th lap and full points were awarded.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Joan Mir	Honda	15	24:51.490	3	25
2	11	Livio Loi	Honda	15	+0.351	21	20
3	88	Jorge Martín	Honda	15	+0.359	1	16
4	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	15	+0.388	2	13
5	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	15	+0.408	9	11
6	5	Romano Fenati	Honda	15	+0.808	5	10
7	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	15	+0.834	17	9
8	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	15	+1.291	22	8
9	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	15	+3.648	10	7
10	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Mahindra	15	+4.005	14	6
11	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	15	+4.036	23	5
12	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Peugeot	15	+4.085	20	4
13	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	15	+4.251	13	3
14	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	15	+6.004	26	2
15	96	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	15	+6.540	7	1
16	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	15	+19.418	19
17	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	15	+25.293	28
18	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	15	+40.800	24
19	6	María Herrera	Mahindra	15	+40.858	27
20	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	15	+43.698	30
21	42	Marcos Ramírez	KTM	15	+1:38.853	16
22	70	Tom Toparis	KTM	14	+1 lap	31
23	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	14	+1 lap	4
24	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	12	+3 laps	18
NC	44	Arón Canet	Honda	10	+5 laps	8
Ret	4	Patrik Pulkkinen	Peugeot	9	Accident	29
Ret	12	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	7	Accident	12
Ret	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	5	Accident	6
Ret	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	4	Accident	11
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM	1	Accident	15
Ret	17	John McPhee	Honda	0	Accident	25
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race

MotoGP

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Márquez 269 2 Andrea Dovizioso 236 3 Maverick Viñales 219 4 Valentino Rossi 188 5 Dani Pedrosa 174

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 319 2 Yamaha 285 3 Ducati 278 4 Suzuki 87 5 Aprilia 64

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

Moto2

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Franco Morbidelli	272
2	Thomas Lüthi	243
3	Miguel Oliveira	191
4	Álex Márquez	190
5	Francesco Bagnaia	150
6	Mattia Pasini	135
7	Takaaki Nakagami	128
8	Simone Corsi	105
9	Xavi Vierge	90
10	Brad Binder	89

Moto3

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Joan Mir	296
2	Romano Fenati	226
3	Arón Canet	184
4	Jorge Martín	151
5	Fabio Di Giannantonio	146
6	Enea Bastianini	114
7	John McPhee	112
8	Andrea Migno	108
9	Marcos Ramírez	107
10	Philipp Öttl	104

References

1. "2017 Australian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 23 October 2017.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2017 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Phillip Island Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com.
4. "2017 Australian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
5. "MICHELIN AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2017". Motogp.com. Archived from the original on 13 November 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
6. "MICHELIN AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2017" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
7. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2017. Retrieved 2019-08-27.

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