2015 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

  2015 Catalan Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 18 races in the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	14 June 2015
Official name	G.P. Monster Energy de Catalunya
Location	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.727 km (2.937 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Aleix Espargaró	Suzuki
Time	1:40.546
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	1:42.219 on lap 2
Podium
First	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha
Second	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha
Third	Dani Pedrosa	Honda
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Johann Zarco	Kalex
Time	1:45.895
Fastest lap
Rider	Álex Rins	Kalex
Time	1:46.474 on lap 2
Podium
First	Johann Zarco	Kalex
Second	Álex Rins	Kalex
Third	Esteve Rabat	Kalex
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Enea Bastianini	Honda
Time	1:50.137
Fastest lap
Rider	Efrén Vázquez	Honda
Time	1:50.606 on lap 12
Podium
First	Danny Kent	Honda
Second	Enea Bastianini	Honda
Third	Efrén Vázquez	Honda

The 2015 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló on 14 June 2015.

In the MotoGP category, Suzuki's Aleix Espargaró took the manufacturer's first pole position since returning to MotoGP, but he crashed out of the race with 5 laps remaining. Jorge Lorenzo took his fourth win in succession,^[1] ahead of Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa, who achieved his first podium of the season.^[2] Only 16 riders finished the race as amongst others, Marc Márquez, Andrea Dovizioso, Cal Crutchlow, Pol Espargaró, Yonny Hernández and Nicky Hayden retired from the race. Stefan Bradl took his first win in the Open category finishing in eighth place.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	25	42:53.208	3	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	25	+0.885	7	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	25	+19.455	6	16
4	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	25	+24.925	12	13
5	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	25	+27.782	8	11
6	25	Maverick Viñales	Suzuki	25	+29.559	2	10
7	45	Scott Redding	Honda	25	+36.424	14	9
8	6	Stefan Bradl	Yamaha Forward	25	+42.103	15	8
9	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	25	+49.350	16	7
10	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	25	+52.569	20	6
11	43	Jack Miller	Honda	25	+53.666	21	5
12	50	Eugene Laverty	Honda	25	+55.765	22	4
13	76	Loris Baz	Yamaha Forward	25	+55.832	19	3
14	63	Mike Di Meglio	Ducati	25	+1:09.037	17	2
15	15	Alex de Angelis	ART	25	+1:25.263	23	1
16	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	24	+1 lap	13
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Suzuki	20	Accident	1
Ret	69	Nicky Hayden	Honda	13	Accident	18
Ret	33	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	6	Retirement	24
Ret	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	6	Retirement	5
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	Yamaha	4	Accident	11
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	3	Retirement	4
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	3	Retirement	9
Ret	68	Yonny Hernández	Ducati	2	Accident	10
DNS	17	Karel Abraham	Honda		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	23	41:15.487	1	25
2	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	23	+0.426	7	20
3	1	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	23	+1.115	3	16
4	22	Sam Lowes	Speed Up	23	+3.914	5	13
5	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	23	+7.080	6	11
6	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	23	+7.383	10	10
7	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	23	+8.839	2	9
8	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	23	+10.352	23	8
9	77	Dominique Aegerter	Kalex	23	+10.638	4	7
10	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	23	+10.730	13	6
11	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	23	+11.052	12	5
12	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	23	+16.338	22	4
13	3	Simone Corsi	Kalex	23	+16.649	8	3
14	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	23	+19.584	19	2
15	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	23	+19.657	15	1
16	23	Marcel Schrötter	Tech 3	23	+19.966	16
17	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	23	+27.233	21
18	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	23	+30.281	18
19	25	Azlan Shah	Kalex	23	+30.344	17
20	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	+39.906	25
21	66	Florian Alt	Suter	23	+43.463	28
22	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	23	+43.641	27
23	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	23	+44.849	26
24	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	23	+48.202	31
25	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Kalex	23	+1:01.457	29
26	93	Ramdan Rosli	Kalex	23	+1:07.876	32
Ret	88	Ricard Cardús	Tech 3	17	Accident	30
Ret	15	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	9	Accident	24
Ret	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	7	Accident	20
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	0	Accident	9
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	0	Accident	11
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	0	Accident	14
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	52	Danny Kent	Honda	22	40:59.419	2	25
2	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	22	+0.035	1	20
3	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	22	+0.600	6	16
4	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	22	+0.687	4	13
5	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	22	+0.827	5	11
6	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	22	+0.913	3	10
7	32	Isaac Viñales	Husqvarna	22	+8.871	20	9
8	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	22	+8.917	13	8
9	41	Brad Binder	KTM	22	+11.068	18	7
10	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	22	+14.968	9	6
11	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	22	+16.596	15	5
12	55	Andrea Locatelli	Honda	22	+17.340	19	4
13	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	22	+19.086	8	3
14	20	Fabio Quartararo	Honda	22	+19.320	7	2
15	6	María Herrera	Husqvarna	22	+19.366	14	1
16	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	22	+22.257	22
17	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	22	+23.345	24
18	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	22	+26.414	23
19	11	Livio Loi	Honda	22	+27.080	29
20	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	22	+36.956	17
21	12	Matteo Ferrari	Mahindra	22	+37.895	31
22	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	22	+37.946	28
23	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	22	+38.088	34
24	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	22	+53.346	33
25	2	Remy Gardner	Mahindra	22	+1:02.762	25
26	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	Mahindra	22	+1:16.487	16
27	29	Stefano Manzi	Mahindra	21	+1 lap	27
28	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	21	+1 lap	21
Ret	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	19	Accident	12
Ret	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	17	Retirement	30
Ret	17	John McPhee	Honda	9	Accident	11
Ret	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	6	Accident	10
Ret	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	0	Accident	26
Ret	91	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	0	Accident	32
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

References

External links

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