Gran Premio di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini

Round 13 - Sunday, September 14th 2014

San Marino - Race Report

Weather conditions

sunny

25°C
Air temp

37°C
Track temp

45%
Humidity

Pedrosa takes podium as Marquez slips-up and finishes 15th

It’s been a difficult weekend for the Repsol Honda Team in Misano but Dani Pedrosa managed to take third place and has now finished in the top five at the last 17 successive races. Championship leader, Marc Marquez, made an uncharacteristic error on lap ten and lost the front. He was able to restart but only managed to climb back to fifteenth and take one Championship point.

After a promising start, Marc steadily progressed up to second, after battling with Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi. Dani dropped back to seventh from his fifth spot on the grid, but also made his way through the traffic and was up to fourth by lap eight. However, as Marc pushed to try and stay with race leader Valentino, he made a small mistake and lost the front in turn four at a fairly low speed, with the bike spinning out. He was able to pick the bike up but had trouble getting it started again. Finally race marshals arrived and managed to bump start him, but by this point the pack had disappeared.

Marc pushed hard to catch the back markers and was able to match the lap times being set by the from runners, but the distance was too great. He crossed the line in fifteenth and took a single Championship point. Dani meanwhile managed to hold off the aggressive Andrea Dovizioso for twenty-five of the twenty-eight laps finishing 1.234 seconds in front of the Italian and marking his 200th points scoring finish in Grand Prix racing, becoming just the fourth rider of all-time to reach this impressive milestone.

Marc maintains his lead in the Championship, but the gap is now decreased to 74 points over second place Dani, with Valentino now just 1 point behind him.

Team Quotes

3rd - Championship Standing: 2nd - 215 points

“Today’s race was a very difficult one, and it was hard to do any more. Marc attempted to keep up with Valentino and Jorge but eventually he crashed trying - they were very strong here. This race also saw many problems for us with the front and rear, so there was little that we could do. From the opening laps I lost a lot of time in traffic, and that affected my entire race. I tried to do the best I could and still had difficulty sticking with Dovizioso, because he also lapped very quickly; eventually we were going as fast as the Valentino and Jorge. Now we have to take the positives from this weekend and hope that for the next race at Aragon, which is a track that I like, we have a better feeling and have a better race.”

15th - Championship Standing: 1st - 289 points

“I’m happy with how today went, despite the crash due to my first mistake of the season, because yesterday I did not think that I would be capable of sticking with the Valentino and Jorge. They had a little bit more pace, and today we were able to get fairly close to them. I saw the possibility of fighting with Valentino for the victory, but that was not possible in the end because of the mistake; I was riding over the inside of the rumble strip and that meant that I lost the front. Luckily I was able to rejoin the race, continue with a good pace and score a point that could always come in handy in the future.”

race results

Gran Premio di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini - Round 13

Pos.	Rider	Num.	Nation	Points	Team	Constructor	Time/Gap
1	Valentino Rossi	46	ITA	25	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	YAMAHA	44'14.586
2	Jorge Lorenzo	99	ESP	20	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	YAMAHA	+1.578
3	Dani Pedrosa	26	ESP	16	Repsol Honda Team	HONDA	+4.276
4	Andrea Dovizioso	4	ITA	13	Ducati Team	DUCATI	+5.510
5	Andrea Iannone	29	ITA	11	Pramac Racing	DUCATI	+11.771
6	Pol Espargaro	44	ESP	10	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	YAMAHA	+18.999
7	Bradley Smith	38	GBR	9	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	YAMAHA	+23.100
8	Alvaro Bautista	19	ESP	8	Go & Fun Honda Gresini	HONDA	+36.458
9	Cal Crutchlow	35	GBR	7	Ducati Team	DUCATI	+38.480
10	Yonny Hernandez	68	COL	6	Pramac Racing	DUCATI	+45.878
11	Karel Abraham	17	CZE	5	Cardion AB Motoracing	HONDA	+54.765
12	Hiroshi Aoyama	7	JPN	4	Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA	+56.775
13	Scott Redding	45	GBR	3	Go & Fun Honda Gresini	HONDA	+1'02.734
14	Alex De Angelis	15	RSM	2	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA	+1'13.546
15	Marc Marquez	93	ESP	1	Repsol Honda Team	HONDA	+1'15.948
16	Leon Camier	2	GBR		Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA	+1'20.760
17	Michael Laverty	70	GBR		Paul Bird Motorsport	ART & PBM	+1'26.422
18	Broc Parkes	23	AUS		Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	1 lap
19	Hector Barbera	8	ESP		Avintia Racing MotoGP	FTR-KAWASAKI	1 lap
20	Aleix Espargaro	41	ESP		NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA	DNF
21	Stefan Bradl	6	GER		LCR Honda MotoGP	HONDA	DNF
22	Danilo Petrucci	9	ITA		IodaRacing Project	IODA-SUTER	DNF
23	Mike Di Meglio	63	FRA		Avintia Racing MotoGP	FTR-KAWASAKI	DNF

Rider standings

Sunday, September 14th 2014

Pos.	Rider	Num.	Nation	Points	Team	Constructor
1	Marc Marquez	93	ESP	289	Repsol Honda Team	HONDA
2	Dani Pedrosa	26	ESP	215	Repsol Honda Team	HONDA
3	Valentino Rossi	46	ITA	214	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	YAMAHA
4	Jorge Lorenzo	99	ESP	177	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	YAMAHA
5	Andrea Dovizioso	4	ITA	142	Ducati Team	DUCATI
6	Pol Espargaro	44	ESP	98	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	YAMAHA
7	Aleix Espargaro	41	ESP	92	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA
8	Andrea Iannone	29	ITA	92	Pramac Racing	DUCATI
9	Stefan Bradl	6	GER	74	LCR Honda MotoGP	HONDA
10	Bradley Smith	38	GBR	74	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	YAMAHA
11	Alvaro Bautista	19	ESP	64	Go & Fun Honda Gresini	HONDA
12	Scott Redding	45	GBR	54	Go & Fun Honda Gresini	HONDA
13	Cal Crutchlow	35	GBR	47	Ducati Team	DUCATI
14	Hiroshi Aoyama	7	JPN	43	Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA
15	Yonny Hernandez	68	COL	38	Pramac Racing	DUCATI
16	Karel Abraham	17	CZE	33	Cardion AB Motoracing	HONDA
17	Nicky Hayden	69	USA	29	Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA
18	Colin Edwards	5	USA	11	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA
19	Michele Pirro	51	ITA	11	Ducati Team	DUCATI
20	Broc Parkes	23	AUS	7	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM
21	Mike Di Meglio	63	FRA	4	Avintia Racing MotoGP	FTR-KAWASAKI
22	Danilo Petrucci	9	ITA	4	IodaRacing Project	IODA-SUTER
23	Alex De Angelis	15	RSM	3	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA
24	Michael Laverty	70	GBR	2	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART & PBM
25	Hector Barbera	8	ESP	2	Avintia Racing MotoGP	FTR-KAWASAKI
26	Leon Camier	2	GBR	1	Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA
27	Michel Fabrizio	84	ITA	0	IodaRacing Project	IODA-SUTER

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Circuit Information

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Length	4.226 m / 2.626 miles
Width	14m
Left corners	6
Right corners	10
Longest straight	565 m / 0.351 miles
Constructed	1969
Modified	2008

Santa Monica SpA
Via Daijiro Kato, 10
47843 Misano Adriatico (RN)

www.misanocircuit.com

Pole position	1m 32.915s (163.7 km/h) Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013)
Race lap	1m 33.906s (162.008km/h) Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha, 2011)
Race time	44m 05.522s (161.0 km/h) Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha, 2013)
2013 Race Winner	Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha)
2014 Race Winner	Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha)