2015 German motorcycle Grand Prix
# 2015 German motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2015 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal on 12 July 2015.

In the MotoGP class, Marc Márquez secured his fourth pole position of the season, and ultimately took his second victory of the season — his sixth successive wins from pole position at Sachsenring, ahead from his teammate Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi, who finished in third place. Scott Redding and Andrea Dovizioso crashed out from the race before the halfway mark. Hiroshi Aoyama, who previously replace Pedrosa at Repsol Honda Team — replaced an injured Karel Abraham, also crashed out from the race. Mike Di Meglio and Claudio Corti, who replaced an injured Stefan Bradl, force to retire from the race. Eugene Laverty's older brother, Michael Laverty return to MotoGP race as he replaced Marco Melandri as Melandri left Aprilia Racing Team Gresini after he failing to score any point after the first eight races. With this result, Rossi continue leading his championshionship over 13 points from Jorge Lorenzo.

## Classification

### MotoGP

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | 41:01.087 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +2.226 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 30 | +5.608 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 30 | +9.928 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Ducati Team | Ducati | 30 | +20.785 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +23.215 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | CWM LCR Honda | Honda | 30 | +29.881 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +34.953 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Octo Pramac Racing | Ducati | 30 | +35.875 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 30 | +37.253 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 30 | +37.274 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 68 | Yonny Hernández | Octo Pramac Racing | Ducati | 30 | +42.081 | 5 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 30 | +48.611 | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 30 | +50.687 | 16 | 2 |
| 15 | 43 | Jack Miller | CWM LCR Honda | Honda | 30 | +53.769 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Aspar MotoGP Team | Honda | 30 | +58.921 | 19 | |
| 17 | 50 | Eugene Laverty | Aspar MotoGP Team | Honda | 30 | +1:02.738 | 23 | |
| 18 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | E-Motion IodaRacing Team | ART | 30 | +1:03.122 | 17 | |
| 19 | 76 | Loris Baz | Athinà Forward Racing | Yamaha Forward | 30 | +1:11.162 | 20 | |
| 20 | 70 | Michael Laverty | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 30 | +1:15.910 | 24 | |
| Ret | 71 | Claudio Corti | Athinà Forward Racing | Yamaha Forward | 22 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 14 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 7 | Hiroshi Aoyama | AB Motoracing | Honda | 4 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 3 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 45 | Scott Redding | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 0 | Accident | 14 | |
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### Moto2

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Kalex | 29 | 41:09.295 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Kalex | 29 | +0.083 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 40 | Álex Rins | Kalex | 29 | +1.646 | 12 | 16 |
| 4 | 3 | Simone Corsi | Kalex | 29 | +6.386 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 22 | Sam Lowes | Speed Up | 29 | +9.284 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Kalex | 29 | +10.432 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 29 | +10.592 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 29 | +12.518 | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | 60 | Julián Simón | Speed Up | 29 | +14.862 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Kalex | 29 | +14.953 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kalex | 29 | +17.529 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 29 | +18.820 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Kalex | 29 | +21.849 | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex | 29 | +22.362 | 8 | 2 |
| 15 | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 29 | +23.275 | 14 | 1 |
| 16 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Kalex | 29 | +23.429 | 17 | |
| 17 | 39 | Luis Salom | Kalex | 29 | +28.507 | 22 | |
| 18 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 29 | +32.740 | 24 | |
| 19 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | Tech 3 | 29 | +33.465 | 20 | |
| 20 | 70 | Robin Mulhauser | Kalex | 29 | +33.508 | 27 | |
| 21 | 2 | Jesko Raffin | Kalex | 29 | +55.191 | 26 | |
| 22 | 10 | Thitipong Warokorn | Kalex | 29 | +57.449 | 28 | |
| 23 | 15 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Suter | 29 | +57.776 | 25 | |
| Ret | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Kalex | 28 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 1 | Tito Rabat | Kalex | 28 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 96 | Louis Rossi | Tech 3 | 25 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Tech 3 | 5 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 25 | Azlan Shah | Kalex | 5 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 95 | Anthony West | Speed Up | 4 | Accident | 18 | |
| DNS | 66 | Florian Alt | Suter | | Did not start | | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 52 | Danny Kent | Honda | 27 | 39:29.359 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Honda | 27 | +7.554 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 27 | +9.603 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 5 | Romano Fenati | KTM | 27 | +9.629 | 12 | 13 |
| 5 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 27 | +9.664 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Honda | 27 | +9.807 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 27 | +9.837 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 27 | +10.266 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 55 | Andrea Locatelli | Honda | 27 | +10.352 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 31 | Niklas Ajo | KTM | 27 | +11.558 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 27 | +11.777 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 88 | Jorge Martín | Mahindra | 27 | +18.416 | 6 | 4 |
| 13 | 98 | Karel Hanika | KTM | 27 | +18.426 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | KTM | 27 | +28.782 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 95 | Jules Danilo | Honda | 27 | +28.892 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 11 | Livio Loi | Honda | 27 | +28.958 | 14 | |
| 17 | 17 | John McPhee | Honda | 27 | +29.218 | 23 | |
| 18 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Husqvarna | 27 | +29.478 | 17 | |
| 19 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 27 | +29.750 | 16 | |
| 20 | 40 | Darryn Binder | Mahindra | 27 | +45.844 | 18 | |
| 21 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 27 | +46.658 | 34 | |
| 22 | 29 | Stefano Manzi | Mahindra | 27 | +46.780 | 25 | |
| 23 | 2 | Remy Gardner | Mahindra | 27 | +46.840 | 24 | |
| 24 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | Mahindra | 27 | +46.965 | 22 | |
| 25 | 12 | Matteo Ferrari | Mahindra | 27 | +47.339 | 29 | |
| 26 | 91 | Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 27 | +1:06.125 | 31 | |
| 27 | 45 | Jonas Geitner | KTM | 27 | +1:24.437 | 33 | |
| Ret | 22 | Ana Carrasco | KTM | 23 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 6 | María Herrera | Husqvarna | 23 | Accident | 30 | |
| Ret | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Mahindra | 20 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 97 | Maximilian Kappler | FTR Honda | 12 | Accident | 32 | |
| Ret | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | Honda | 5 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 21 | Francesco Bagnaia | Mahindra | 5 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 76 | Hiroki Ono | Honda | 1 | Retirement | 26 | |
| DNS | 58 | Juan Francisco Guevara | Mahindra | | Did not start | | |
| DNS | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM | | Did not start | | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||

## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top seven riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.

| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 179 |
| 2 | Jorge Lorenzo | 166 |
| 3 | Andrea Iannone | 118 |
| 4 | Marc Márquez | 114 |
| 5 | Andrea Dovizioso | 87 |
| 6 | Bradley Smith | 87 |
| 7 | Dani Pedrosa | 67 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 207 |
| 2 | Honda | 159 |
| 3 | Ducati | 143 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 70 |
| 5 | Yamaha Forward | 19 |
| 6 | Aprilia | 13 |
| 7 | ART | 1 |
| Pos. | Team | Points |
| 1 | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | 345 |
| 2 | Ducati Team | 205 |
| 3 | Repsol Honda Team | 186 |
| 4 | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | 151 |
| 5 | Team Suzuki Ecstar | 101 |
| 6 | Octo Pramac Racing | 83 |
| 7 | CWM LCR Honda | 78 |

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