2018 Argentine Republic motorcycle Grand Prix
# 2018 Argentine Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2018 Argentine Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in Santiago del Estero on 8 April 2018. In the MotoGP class, Jack Miller scored his first MotoGP pole position. The race started on wet tyres, and drivers were obliged to swap bikes to slick tyres mid-race in the flag-to-flag rule. Cal Crutchlow took Honda's 750th victory and became the first non-factory rider to lead the championship since Sete Gibernau in the 2004 Catalan Grand Prix, as well as the first British rider to lead the championship since Barry Sheene in 1979. Repsol Honda failed to score for the first time since the previous year's event. Marc Márquez and Valentino Rossi collided in the closing stages, with Márquez receiving a 30-second time penalty for his incident with Rossi after the race. In this race, Marc Márquez gets 3 penalties at once.

## Classification

### MotoGP

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda Castrol | Honda | 24 | 40:36.342 | 10 | 25 |
| 2 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +0.251 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 42 | Álex Rins | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +2.501 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 43 | Jack Miller | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +4.390 | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 24 | +14.941 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +22.533 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 24 | +23.026 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +23.921 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +24.311 | 23 | 7 |
| 10 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +26.003 | 18 | 6 |
| 11 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 24 | +31.022 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 24 | +31.891 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | LCR Honda Idemitsu | Honda | 24 | +32.452 | 24 | 3 |
| 14 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 24 | +42.061 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +42.274 | 14 | 1 |
| 16 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 24 | +42.625 | 19 | |
| 17 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 24 | +43.350 | 20 | |
| 18 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | +43.860 | 6 | |
| 19 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 24 | +52.082 | 11 | |
| 20 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 24 | +1:03.944 | 13 | |
| 21 | 10 | Xavier Siméon | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 24 | +1:10.144 | 17 | |
| Ret | 38 | Bradley Smith | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 17 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 13 | Electronics | 7 | |
| Ret | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 0 | Accident | 2 | |
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### Moto2

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 23 | 40:37.538 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Kalex | 23 | +0.850 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM | 23 | +1.414 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 23 | +5.178 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 23 | +5.431 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 87 | Remy Gardner | Tech 3 | 23 | +10.425 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 36 | Joan Mir | Kalex | 23 | +13.379 | 17 | 9 |
| 8 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | KTM | 23 | +13.460 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 23 | +22.038 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 23 | +22.867 | 20 | 6 |
| 11 | 27 | Iker Lecuona | KTM | 23 | +24.102 | 21 | 5 |
| 12 | 52 | Danny Kent | Speed Up | 23 | +25.972 | 3 | 4 |
| 13 | 22 | Sam Lowes | KTM | 23 | +26.010 | 6 | 3 |
| 14 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Kalex | 23 | +31.769 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 5 | Andrea Locatelli | Kalex | 23 | +33.264 | 26 | 1 |
| 16 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 23 | +33.828 | 12 | |
| 17 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 23 | +48.603 | 23 | |
| 18 | 4 | Steven Odendaal | NTS | 23 | +50.651 | 14 | |
| 19 | 13 | Romano Fenati | Kalex | 23 | +51.594 | 19 | |
| 20 | 40 | Héctor Barberá | Kalex | 23 | +53.070 | 18 | |
| 21 | 62 | Stefano Manzi | Suter | 23 | +53.260 | 32 | |
| 22 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | Speed Up | 23 | +56.979 | 28 | |
| 23 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Kalex | 23 | +59.266 | 22 | |
| 24 | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi | Kalex | 23 | +1:10.121 | 27 | |
| 25 | 16 | Joe Roberts | NTS | 23 | +1:12.051 | 10 | |
| 26 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | Kalex | 23 | +1:32.993 | 31 | |
| 27 | 21 | Federico Fuligni | Kalex | 23 | +1:33.218 | 30 | |
| 28 | 64 | Bo Bendsneyder | Tech 3 | 23 | +1:36.078 | 25 | |
| 29 | 51 | Eric Granado | Suter | 23 | +1:38.951 | 24 | |
| Ret | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Kalex | 3 | Exhaust | 5 | |
| Ret | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 1 | Collision | 16 | |
| Ret | 95 | Jules Danilo | Kalex | 1 | Retired | 29 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 12 | Marco Bezzecchi | KTM | 21 | 41:43.822 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 44 | Arón Canet | Honda | 21 | +4.689 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 21 | +4.963 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 21 | +5.818 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Adam Norrodin | Honda | 21 | +9.112 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 72 | Alonso López | Honda | 21 | +13.349 | 21 | 10 |
| 7 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Honda | 21 | +13.925 | 15 | 9 |
| 8 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 21 | +14.363 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 19 | Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 21 | +16.573 | 3 | 7 |
| 10 | 14 | Tony Arbolino | Honda | 21 | +24.299 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | 88 | Jorge Martín | Honda | 21 | +25.373 | 9 | 5 |
| 12 | 42 | Marcos Ramírez | KTM | 21 | +26.060 | 26 | 4 |
| 13 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 21 | +26.376 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | KTM | 21 | +26.488 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 11 | Livio Loi | KTM | 21 | +26.537 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 71 | Ayumu Sasaki | Honda | 21 | +29.252 | 13 | |
| 17 | 17 | John McPhee | KTM | 21 | +32.937 | 22 | |
| 18 | 41 | Nakarin Atiratphuvapat | Honda | 21 | +33.892 | 23 | |
| 19 | 27 | Kaito Toba | Honda | 21 | +37.665 | 24 | |
| 20 | 22 | Kazuki Masaki | KTM | 21 | +38.202 | 17 | |
| 21 | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Honda | 21 | +1:02.305 | 19 | |
| 22 | 40 | Darryn Binder | KTM | 21 | +1:17.384 | 25 | |
| 23 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 21 | +1:36.986 | 20 | |
| 24 | 76 | Makar Yurchenko | KTM | 20 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 5 | Jaume Masiá | KTM | 19 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 10 | Dennis Foggia | KTM | 18 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 75 | Albert Arenas | KTM | 17 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 8 | Nicolò Bulega | KTM | 16 | Handling | 27 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||
