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2012 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
Grand Prix	Japanese
flag	Japan
Official_Name	AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course_mi	2.983
Course_km	4.801
Race_No	15
Season_No	18
Date	14 October
Year	2012
Image	Twin Ring Motegi map-2.svg
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Jorge Lorenzo
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Yamaha
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:44.969
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Dani Pedrosa
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:45.589
First_Rider_MotoGP	Dani Pedrosa
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
First_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Jorge Lorenzo
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Yamaha
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Álvaro Bautista
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Bike	Honda
Pole_Rider_Moto2	Pol Espargaró
Pole_Rider_Moto2_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_Moto2_Bike	Kalex
Pole_Time_Moto2	1:50.886
Fast_Rider_Moto2	Pol Espargaró
Fast_Rider_Moto2_Country	Spain
Fast_Rider_Moto2_Bike	Kalex
Fast_Time_Moto2	1:51.100
First_Rider_Moto2	Marc Márquez
First_Rider_Moto2_Country	Spain
First_Rider_Moto2_Bike	Suter
Second_Rider_Moto2	Pol Espargaró
Second_Rider_Moto2_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_Moto2_Bike	Kalex
Third_Rider_Moto2	Esteve Rabat
Third_Rider_Moto2_Country	Spain
Third_Rider_Moto2_Bike	Kalex
Pole_Rider_Moto3	Danny Kent
Pole_Rider_Moto3_Country	UK
Pole_Rider_Moto3_Bike	KTM
Pole_Time_Moto3	1:58.371
Fast_Rider_Moto3	Alessandro Tonucci
Fast_Rider_Moto3_Country	Italy
Fast_Rider_Moto3_Bike	FTR Honda
Fast_Time_Moto3	1:59.111
First_Rider_Moto3	Danny Kent
First_Rider_Moto3_Country	UK
First_Rider_Moto3_Bike	KTM
Second_Rider_Moto3	Maverick Viñales
Second_Rider_Moto3_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_Moto3_Bike	FTR Honda
Third_Rider_Moto3	Alessandro Tonucci
Third_Rider_Moto3_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_Moto3_Bike	FTR Honda

The 2012 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 12–14 October 2012 at the Twin Ring Motegi, located in Motegi, Japan.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
26	ESP Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	42:31.569	2	25
99	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	24	+4.275	1	20
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	24	+6.752	5	16
4	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+16.397	6	13
1	AUS Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+20.566	7	11
6	DEU Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	24	+24.567	8	10
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	+26.072	9	9
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	24	+36.724	10	8
21	JPN Katsuyuki Nakasuga	Yamaha YSP Racing Team	Yamaha	24	+36.794	11	7
8	ESP Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	24	+1:10.729	12	6
17	CZE Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	24	+1:15.658	15	5
41	ESP Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	24	+1:22.769	13	4
5	USA Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	24	+1:24.968	16	3
77	GBR James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	24	+1:29.388	20	2
51	ITA Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	24	+1:34.612	18	1
84	ITA Roberto Rolfo	Speed Master	ART	24	+1:50.853	21
35	GBR Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	Out of fuel	3
9	ITA Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	23	Retirement	19
22	ESP Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	14	Retirement	22
14	FRA Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	14	Retirement	14
11	USA Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	1	Accident	4
68	COL Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	1	Accident	17

Moto2

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
93	ESP Marc Márquez	Suter	23	42:56.171	2	25
40	ESP Pol Espargaró	Kalex	23	+0.415	1	20
80	ESP Esteve Rabat	Kalex	23	+9.584	3	16
45	GBR Scott Redding	Kalex	23	+11.069	4	13
12	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Suter	23	+11.595	5	11
3	ITA Simone Corsi	FTR	23	+18.383	12	10
30	JPN Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	+18.672	11	9
5	FRA Johann Zarco	Motobi	23	+28.226	6	8
49	ESP Axel Pons	Kalex	23	+28.451	13	7
77	CHE Dominique Aegerter	Suter	23	+28.599	19	6
60	ESP Julián Simón	Suter	23	+28.971	8	5
81	ESP Jordi Torres	Suter	23	+29.815	16	4
19	BEL Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	23	+39.783	22	3
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Kalex	23	+39.868	23	2
72	JPN Yuki Takahashi	FTR	23	+39.970	14	1
36	FIN Mika Kallio	Kalex	23	+40.763	15
29	ITA Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	23	+40.900	18
18	ESP Nicolás Terol	Suter	23	+44.379	9
15	SMR Alex de Angelis	FTR	23	+46.507	17
14	THA Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	23	+55.561	25
88	ESP Ricard Cardús	AJR	23	+55.815	21
75	JPN Tomoyoshi Koyama	Suter	23	+56.051	27
23	DEU Marcel Schrötter	Bimota	23	+56.492	24
8	GBR Gino Rea	Suter	23	+58.417	28
22	ITA Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	23	+1:12.398	26
82	ESP Elena Rosell	Speed Up	23	+1:39.841	31
57	BRA Eric Granado	Motobi	23	+1:40.787	32
20	CHE Jesko Raffin	Kalex	22	+1 lap	30
24	ESP Toni Elías	Kalex	19	Accident	10
38	GBR Bradley Smith	Tech 3	3	Retirement	7
95	AUS Anthony West	Speed Up	23	(+29.609)	20
31	JPN Kohta Nozane	FTR	6	Black flag	29

Moto3

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
52	GBR Danny Kent	KTM	20	40:02.775	1	25
25	ESP Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	20	+0.260	2	20
19	ITA Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	20	+2.352	5	16
42	ESP Álex Rins	Suter Honda	20	+3.404	13	13
63	MYS Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	20	+3.645	4	11
11	DEU Sandro Cortese	KTM	20	+13.394	3	10
44	PRT Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	20	+15.523	11	9
96	FRA Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	20	+15.739	8	8
7	ESP Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	20	+15.946	9	7
5	ITA Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	20	+16.129	10	6
61	AUS Arthur Sissis	KTM	20	+16.223	14	5
27	ITA Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	20	+16.371	12	4
31	FIN Niklas Ajo	KTM	20	+28.368	23	3
12	ESP Álex Márquez	Suter Honda	20	+28.375	17	2
84	CZE Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	20	+28.509	19	1
81	JPN Hyuga Watanabe	Honda	20	+31.071	21
26	ESP Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	20	+40.292	16
51	JPN Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	20	+42.822	29
8	AUS Jack Miller	Honda	20	+42.896	22
89	FRA Alan Techer	TSR Honda	20	+47.451	20
17	GBR John McPhee	KRP Honda	20	+48.245	26
29	DEU Luca Amato	Kalex KTM	20	+48.359	31
32	ESP Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	20	+48.439	25
28	ESP Josep Rodríguez	FGR Honda	20	+1:03.762	30
30	CHE Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	20	+1:10.290	28
99	GBR Danny Webb	Mahindra	20	+1:10.484	32
82	JPN Yudai Kamei	Honda	19	+1 lap	27
94	DEU Jonas Folger	Kalex KTM	19	Accident	7
39	ESP Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	19	Accident	6
23	ESP Alberto Moncayo	FTR Honda	19	Retirement	15
41	ZAF Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	14	Retirement	18
9	DEU Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	4	Retirement	24
80	ITA Armando Pontone	Ioda		Did not start	33
20	ITA Riccardo Moretti	Mahindra		Did not start	34

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	310
2	ESP Dani Pedrosa	282
3	AUS Casey Stoner	197
4	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	192
5	ESP Álvaro Bautista	144

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	337
2	JPN Yamaha	326
3	ITA Ducati	161
4	ITA ART	79
5	ESP BQR	31

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2011 Japanese Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2013 Japanese Grand Prix

References

(13 June 2017). "2012 Japanese MotoGP".
"2012 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
"Twin Ring Motegi | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
(13 June 2017). "2012 Japanese MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
"motogp.com · AIRASIA GRAND PRIX OF JAPAN · MotoGP Race Classification 2012".
(14 October 2012). "AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan – MotoGP – Race". [[Dorna Sports]].
(28 November 2013). "Doping – Decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of rider Anthony West". [[Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme]].
(14 October 2012). "AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan – Moto2 – Race". [[Dorna Sports]].
(14 October 2012). "AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan – Moto3 – Race". [[Dorna Sports]].
(2012). "Standings".

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