2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix
# 2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló on 16 June 2013.

## Report

Dani Pedrosa took his second consecutive MotoGP pole position ahead of Cal Crutchlow and Jorge Lorenzo. Pedrosa set a new circuit record for MotoGP with a 1:40.893, which beat his former teammate Casey Stoner's record of 1:41.186 set in 2008. Lorenzo went on to win the race, ahead of pole sitter Pedrosa, and Marc Márquez. Valentino Rossi finished in fourth place, after the collision with Álvaro Bautista in Italy. Javier del Amor scored a point in his only MotoGP start, being called up as a last minute replacement for Hiroshi Aoyama.

Turn 10, a right hander after the back straight, had caught out many riders due to the hot temperatures on race day and caused many retirements during the first few laps of the race.

In Moto2, Pol Espargaró took pole position, and went on to win the race, ahead of Esteve Rabat and Switzerland's Thomas Lüthi, who took his first podium of the season.

In Moto3, Luis Salom took his second successive victory from pole position, ahead of Álex Rins and Maverick Viñales.

## Classification

### MotoGP

Hiroshi Aoyama was replaced by Javier del Amor after the third practice session.

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 25 | 43:06.479 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 25 | +1.763 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 25 | +1.826 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 25 | +5.874 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 25 | +26.756 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 25 | +32.228 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 25 | +32.692 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 25 | +58.615 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 5 | Colin Edwards | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | FTR Kawasaki | 25 | +1:03.142 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 51 | Michele Pirro | Ignite Pramac Racing | Ducati | 25 | +1:09.774 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda-Suter | 25 | +1:24.377 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 71 | Claudio Corti | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | FTR Kawasaki | 25 | +1:33.679 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 68 | Yonny Hernández | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART | 25 | +1:45.355 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 67 | Bryan Staring | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | FTR Honda | 25 | +1:50.745 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 77 | Javier del Amor | Avintia Blusens | FTR | 24 | +1 lap | 24 | 1 |
| 16 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda-Suter | 24 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| Ret | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Avintia Blusens | FTR | 15 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 17 | Karel Abraham | Cardion AB Motoracing | ART | 10 | Engine | 17 | |
| Ret | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 5 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | 5 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Energy T.I. Pramac Racing | Ducati | 4 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 1 | Engine | 13 | |
| Ret | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | Honda | 0 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 70 | Michael Laverty | Paul Bird Motorsport | PBM | 0 | Accident | 20 | |

### Moto2

| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 40 | Pol Espargaró | Kalex | 23 | 41:17.307 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 80 | Esteve Rabat | Kalex | 23 | +0.081 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Suter | 23 | +6.264 | 10 | 16 |
| 4 | 45 | Scott Redding | Kalex | 23 | +9.061 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 23 | +10.597 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Suter | 23 | +11.577 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Suter | 23 | +15.569 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 23 | +28.280 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 23 | +28.352 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 3 | Simone Corsi | Speed Up | 23 | +28.461 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Speed Up | 23 | +28.892 | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Motobi | 23 | +31.215 | 24 | 4 |
| 13 | 52 | Danny Kent | Tech 3 | 23 | +31.318 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 23 | +31.757 | 29 | 2 |
| 15 | 60 | Julián Simón | Kalex | 23 | +33.190 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Suter | 23 | +34.092 | 20 | |
| 17 | 9 | Kyle Smith | Kalex | 23 | +44.392 | 18 | |
| 18 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Kalex | 23 | +48.517 | 27 | |
| 19 | 27 | Dani Rivas | Kalex | 23 | +48.563 | 32 | |
| 20 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Moriwaki | 23 | +48.719 | 22 | |
| 21 | 17 | Alberto Moncayo | Speed Up | 23 | +53.765 | 31 | |
| 22 | 7 | Doni Tata Pradita | Suter | 23 | +1:13.330 | 33 | |
| 23 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | Speed Up | 23 | +1:21.740 | 26 | |
| Ret | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Suter | 22 | Accident | 28 | |
| DSQ | 95 | Anthony West | Speed Up | 18 | (Retirement) | 25 | |
| Ret | 81 | Jordi Torres | Suter | 17 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 17 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 97 | Rafid Topan Sucipto | Speed Up | 9 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kalex | 7 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Speed Up | 7 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Kalex | 2 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 24 | Toni Elías | Kalex | 1 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 96 | Louis Rossi | Tech 3 | 0 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 44 | Steven Odendaal | Speed Up | 0 | Accident | 30 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 39 | Luis Salom | KTM | 22 | 41:15.331 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 42 | Álex Rins | KTM | 22 | +0.211 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | KTM | 22 | +0.634 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 12 | Álex Márquez | KTM | 22 | +3.993 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Mahindra | 22 | +6.243 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Mahindra | 22 | +9.295 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Jack Miller | FTR Honda | 22 | +13.164 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | Alexis Masbou | FTR Honda | 22 | +21.174 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 22 | +21.240 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 61 | Arthur Sissis | KTM | 22 | +21.598 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | FTR Honda | 22 | +21.726 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 41 | Brad Binder | Suter Honda | 22 | +21.756 | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 89 | Alan Techer | TSR Honda | 22 | +21.828 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 99 | Danny Webb | Suter Honda | 22 | +21.879 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 5 | Romano Fenati | FTR Honda | 22 | +22.071 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | FTR Honda | 22 | +22.218 | 14 | |
| 17 | 4 | Francesco Bagnaia | FTR Honda | 22 | +28.119 | 32 | |
| 18 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | Kalex KTM | 22 | +34.915 | 27 | |
| 19 | 17 | John McPhee | FTR Honda | 22 | +34.948 | 20 | |
| 20 | 58 | Juan Francisco Guevara | TSR Honda | 22 | +35.026 | 24 | |
| 21 | 77 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | FTR Honda | 22 | +35.110 | 18 | |
| 22 | 22 | Ana Carrasco | KTM | 22 | +35.352 | 28 | |
| 23 | 29 | Hyuga Watanabe | FTR Honda | 22 | +46.632 | 29 | |
| 24 | 3 | Matteo Ferrari | FTR Honda | 22 | +46.733 | 30 | |
| 25 | 16 | Andrea Migno | FTR | 22 | +46.776 | 31 | |
| 26 | 57 | Eric Granado | Kalex KTM | 22 | +1:12.896 | 25 | |
| 27 | 86 | Kevin Hanus | Honda | 22 | +1:29.331 | 33 | |
| Ret | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | Kalex KTM | 12 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret | 11 | Livio Loi | Kalex KTM | 4 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | FTR Honda | 3 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 9 | Toni Finsterbusch | Kalex KTM | 0 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 31 | Niklas Ajo | KTM | 0 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 53 | Jasper Iwema | Kalex KTM | 0 | Accident | 26 | |
| DNS | 66 | Florian Alt | Kalex KTM | | Did not start | | |
| DNS | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex 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 six has concluded.

| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Dani Pedrosa | 123 |
| 2 | Jorge Lorenzo | 116 |
| 3 | Marc Márquez | 93 |
| 4 | Cal Crutchlow | 71 |
| 5 | Valentino Rossi | 60 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 131 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 127 |
| 3 | Ducati | 60 |
| 4 | ART | 36 |
| 5 | FTR | 14 |

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