2012 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix
# 2012 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2012 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 4–6 May 2012 at the Autódromo do Estoril located in Estoril, Portugal.

## Classification

### MotoGP

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Casey Stoner | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | 45:37.513 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 28 | +1.421 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +3.621 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +13.846 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +16.690 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 28 | +21.884 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Ducati Team | Ducati | 28 | +26.797 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 11 | Ben Spies | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 28 | +33.262 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 28 | +35.867 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 28 | +53.363 | 8 | 6 |
| 11 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | 28 | +1:02.630 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 28 | +1:20.736 | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 28 | +1:23.483 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 51 | Michele Pirro | San Carlo Honda Gresini | FTR | 28 | +1:37.905 | 16 | 2 |
| 15 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda | 27 | +1 lap | 19 | 1 |
| Ret | 17 | Karel Abraham | Cardion AB Motoracing | Ducati | 23 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 77 | James Ellison | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART | 18 | Retirement | 18 | |
| Ret | 68 | Yonny Hernández | Avintia Blusens | BQR | 16 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Speed Master | ART | 11 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret | 22 | Iván Silva | Avintia Blusens | BQR | 11 | Retirement | 20 | |
| DNS | 5 | Colin Edwards | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | Suter | | Did not start | | |
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### Moto2

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Suter | 26 | 44:04.086 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 40 | Pol Espargaró | Kalex | 26 | +1.987 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Suter | 26 | +2.071 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Motobi | 26 | +9.227 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Speed Up | 26 | +10.481 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Suter | 26 | +21.180 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 24 | Toni Elías | Suter | 26 | +21.394 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 60 | Julián Simón | Suter | 26 | +21.504 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 26 | +21.581 | 17 | 7 |
| 10 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Tech 3 | 26 | +24.100 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 45 | Scott Redding | Kalex | 26 | +27.248 | 3 | 5 |
| 12 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 26 | +30.087 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Tech 3 | 26 | +30.132 | 22 | 3 |
| 14 | 71 | Claudio Corti | Kalex | 26 | +30.257 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | AJR | 26 | +30.879 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Suter | 26 | +31.097 | 15 | |
| 17 | 95 | Anthony West | Moriwaki | 26 | +43.099 | 26 | |
| 18 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 26 | +47.282 | 11 | |
| 19 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Kalex | 26 | +47.399 | 19 | |
| 20 | 76 | Max Neukirchner | Kalex | 26 | +48.143 | 27 | |
| 21 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Suter | 26 | +53.563 | 24 | |
| 22 | 47 | Ángel Rodríguez | FTR | 26 | +54.530 | 30 | |
| 23 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Moriwaki | 26 | +55.666 | 28 | |
| 24 | 80 | Esteve Rabat | Kalex | 26 | +1:24.889 | 16 | |
| 25 | 7 | Alexander Lundh | MZ-RE Honda | 26 | +1:32.467 | 29 | |
| 26 | 82 | Elena Rosell | Moriwaki | 26 | +1:40.748 | 31 | |
| 27 | 10 | Marco Colandrea | FTR | 25 | +1 lap | 32 | |
| 28 | 8 | Gino Rea | Moriwaki | 25 | +1 lap | 25 | |
| Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Speed Up | 20 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 3 | Simone Corsi | FTR | 19 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 11 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Suter | 5 | Accident | 20 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | KTM | 23 | 41:34.536 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | FTR Honda | 23 | +0.055 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 39 | Luis Salom | Kalex KTM | 23 | +11.038 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 23 | +12.195 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | FTR Honda | 23 | +20.934 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 27 | Niccolò Antonelli | FTR Honda | 23 | +20.976 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 42 | Álex Rins | Suter Honda | 23 | +21.792 | 22 | 9 |
| 8 | 52 | Danny Kent | KTM | 23 | +21.888 | 4 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 23 | +23.046 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | FTR Honda | 23 | +23.310 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 41 | Brad Binder | Kalex KTM | 23 | +23.379 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Kalex KTM | 23 | +23.763 | 9 | 4 |
| 13 | 61 | Arthur Sissis | KTM | 23 | +24.308 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 23 | Alberto Moncayo | Kalex KTM | 23 | +25.015 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 12 | Álex Márquez | Suter Honda | 23 | +26.450 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 6 | Joan Olivé | KTM | 23 | +32.641 | 24 | |
| 17 | 89 | Alan Techer | TSR Honda | 23 | +32.743 | 20 | |
| 18 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | FTR Honda | 23 | +36.511 | 21 | |
| 19 | 77 | Marcel Schrötter | Mahindra | 23 | +53.527 | 23 | |
| 20 | 21 | Iván Moreno | FTR Honda | 23 | +1:04.014 | 26 | |
| 21 | 9 | Toni Finsterbusch | Honda | 23 | +1:04.064 | 30 | |
| 22 | 73 | Manuel Tatasciore | Honda | 23 | +1:04.071 | 25 | |
| 23 | 51 | Kenta Fujii | TSR Honda | 23 | +1:30.900 | 33 | |
| 24 | 3 | Luigi Morciano | Ioda | 22 | +1 lap | 32 | |
| 25 | 86 | Kevin Hanus | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| NC | 80 | Armando Pontone | Ioda | 23 | +2:32.229 | 34 | |
| NC | 30 | Giulian Pedone | Oral | 23 | +2:35.705 | 29 | |
| Ret | 53 | Jasper Iwema | FGR Honda | 15 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 96 | Louis Rossi | FTR Honda | 14 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 5 | Romano Fenati | FTR Honda | 14 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 32 | Isaac Viñales | FTR Honda | 13 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 99 | Danny Webb | Mahindra | 8 | Retirement | 18 | |
| Ret | 26 | Adrián Martín | FTR Honda | 6 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Suter Honda | 3 | Retirement | 3 | |
| DNQ | 15 | Simone Grotzkyj | Oral | | Food poisoning | | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||

## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Casey Stoner | 66 |
| 2 | Jorge Lorenzo | 65 |
| 3 | Dani Pedrosa | 52 |
| 4 | Cal Crutchlow | 37 |
| 5 | Andrea Dovizioso | 35 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 70 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 65 |
| 3 | Ducati | 27 |
| 4 | ART | 11 |
| 5 | Suter | 4 |

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