2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix
# 2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2018 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal on 15 July 2018.

## Classification

### MotoGP

Franco Morbidelli was replaced by Stefan Bradl after the first practice session due to injury.

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | 41:05.019 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 30 | +2.196 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 30 | +2.776 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 30 | +3.376 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 30 | +5.183 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati Team | Ducati | 30 | +5.780 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 30 | +7.941 | 5 | 9 |
| 8 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +12.711 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +14.428 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 30 | +21.474 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +25.809 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 30 | +25.963 | 8 | 4 |
| 13 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 30 | +29.040 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 43 | Jack Miller | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 30 | +29.325 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 30 | +34.123 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 30 | +38.207 | 20 | |
| 17 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 30 | +49.369 | 21 | |
| 18 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 30 | +1:01.022 | 22 | |
| 19 | 10 | Xavier Siméon | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 30 | +1:16.692 | 23 | |
| Ret | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda Castrol | Honda | 9 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | LCR Honda Idemitsu | Honda | 4 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 42 | Álex Rins | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 0 | Collision | 11 | |
| Ret | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 0 | Collision | 15 | |
| DNS | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
| DNS | 36 | Mika Kallio | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | | Did not start | | |
| WD | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | | Withdrew | | |
| Sources: |||||||||

* Aleix Espargaró suffered a thoracic trauma following a crash in the warm-up session and was declared unfit to start the race.
* Mika Kallio suffered a knee injury in a crash during practice and withdrew from the event.

### Moto2

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 28 | 39:46.306 | 10 | 25 |
| 2 | 36 | Joan Mir | Kalex | 28 | +0.779 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 28 | +0.933 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM | 28 | +2.143 | 15 | 13 |
| 5 | 22 | Sam Lowes | KTM | 28 | +6.376 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 28 | +6.513 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Kalex | 28 | +15.544 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Kalex | 28 | +15.674 | 19 | 8 |
| 9 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | Speed Up | 28 | +16.004 | 18 | 7 |
| 10 | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Kalex | 28 | +16.005 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 87 | Remy Gardner | Tech 3 | 28 | +16.596 | 20 | 5 |
| 12 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 28 | +17.304 | 3 | 4 |
| 13 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 28 | +17.458 | 7 | 3 |
| 14 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | KTM | 28 | +18.138 | 23 | 2 |
| 15 | 40 | Augusto Fernández | Kalex | 28 | +23.816 | 13 | 1 |
| 16 | 13 | Romano Fenati | Kalex | 28 | +24.611 | 11 | |
| 17 | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi | Kalex | 28 | +25.617 | 24 | |
| 18 | 4 | Steven Odendaal | NTS | 28 | +28.019 | 22 | |
| 19 | 27 | Iker Lecuona | KTM | 28 | +28.173 | 25 | |
| 20 | 64 | Bo Bendsneyder | Tech 3 | 28 | +36.398 | 21 | |
| 21 | 51 | Eric Granado | Suter | 28 | +40.199 | 27 | |
| 22 | 16 | Joe Roberts | NTS | 28 | +41.509 | 29 | |
| 23 | 21 | Federico Fuligni | Kalex | 28 | +1:04.024 | 31 | |
| 24 | 18 | Xavi Cardelús | Kalex | 27 | +1 lap | 32 | |
| 25 | 62 | Stefano Manzi | Suter | 21 | +7 laps | 30 | |
| Ret | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Kalex | 16 | Retired | 14 | |
| Ret | 52 | Danny Kent | Speed Up | 7 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 4 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 2 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 1 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 5 | Andrea Locatelli | Kalex | 1 | Accident | 17 | |
| DNS | 95 | Jules Danilo | Kalex | | Electrics | 28 | |
| DNS | 66 | Niki Tuuli | Kalex | | Did not start | | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

* Jules Danilo suffered an electrical failure on the grid and failed to start the race.
* Niki Tuuli experienced pain from the finger injury suffered at the previous round at Assen and withdrew from the event.

### Moto3

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 88 | Jorge Martín | Honda | 27 | 39:36.427 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 12 | Marco Bezzecchi | KTM | 27 | +2.515 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 17 | John McPhee | KTM | 27 | +2.571 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 42 | Marcos Ramírez | KTM | 27 | +2.936 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 44 | Arón Canet | Honda | 27 | +3.028 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Jaume Masiá | KTM | 27 | +3.341 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | KTM | 27 | +3.532 | 21 | 9 |
| 8 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 27 | +4.886 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 25 | Raúl Fernández | KTM | 27 | +5.383 | 17 | 7 |
| 10 | 71 | Ayumu Sasaki | Honda | 27 | +5.486 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | 7 | Adam Norrodin | Honda | 27 | +5.610 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 27 | +9.938 | 24 | 4 |
| 13 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Honda | 27 | +10.027 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Nicolò Bulega | KTM | 27 | +10.360 | 25 | 2 |
| 15 | 22 | Kazuki Masaki | KTM | 27 | +10.467 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 27 | +11.514 | 19 | |
| 17 | 14 | Tony Arbolino | Honda | 27 | +11.712 | 6 | |
| 18 | 27 | Kaito Toba | Honda | 27 | +20.039 | 23 | |
| 19 | 10 | Dennis Foggia | KTM | 27 | +31.237 | 30 | |
| 20 | 43 | Luca Grünwald | KTM | 27 | +32.768 | 26 | |
| 21 | 81 | Stefano Nepa | KTM | 27 | +41.058 | 29 | |
| Ret | 19 | Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 24 | Collision | 12 | |
| Ret | 32 | Ai Ogura | Honda | 24 | Collision | 18 | |
| Ret | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 22 | Collision | 3 | |
| Ret | 72 | Alonso López | Honda | 22 | Collision | 20 | |
| Ret | 75 | Albert Arenas | KTM | 20 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 77 | Vicente Pérez | KTM | 18 | Electrics | 27 | |
| Ret | 41 | Nakarin Atiratphuvapat | Honda | 16 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 15 | Collision | 10 | |
| Ret | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Honda | 5 | Accident | 14 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||
