Repsol Honda's Marquez Takes Record Breaking 13th Win of Season, Pedrosa 3rd in MotoGP Season Finale in Valencia

Press Release www.repsolhondateam.com Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana Round 18 - Sunday, November 9th 2014   Valenciana - Race Report Weather conditions dry/wet 18°C Air temp 22°C Track temp 45% Humidity Marquez breaks another record with victory in Valencia and Pedrosa completes Repsol Honda double podium clinching 2014 Triple Crown 2014 World Champion Marc Marquez has broken another record in Valencia today, winning his thirteenth race of the season – the most ever in the premier class. Teammate Dani Pedrosa took third place – continuing his impressive record at the Valencia track with six podium finishes in nine starts in MotoGP – and together the Spanish duo have clinched the Team Championship resulting in back-to-back Triple Crown’s. It was another complicated race with rain constantly threatening to arrive. Dani starting from 3rd and Marc in 5th traded positions on the opening lap as the race began at a very quick pace with riders jostling for position. Dani fought with Crutchlow in the early laps but finally completed the pass into 4th and joined the battle for the podium. Meanwhile Marc attacked Rossi – setting a new record race lap of 1’31.515 (beating Pedrosa’s 2013 lap of 1’31.628) – and passed him on lap ten and after a brief battle with Iannone on lap eleven, finally took the race lead. The following lap Dani also passed Iannone and began to chase down Rossi and Marc. Then with twelve laps remaining small spots of rain began to appear. Lorenzo entered the pits for his wet setup bike, but fortunately for the other riders the rain never arrived. Although lap times fluctuated, Marc was able to control his lead and Dani consolidated third place resulting in Repsol Honda winning their 7th Team Championship (since the beginning of the MotoGP class in 2002) to add to the Rider and Constructor Championships and marking Honda’s third Triple Crown in four years and second in succession. The 2014 season is now officially over but the 2015 season will begin tomorrow with a three day test in Valencia. Dani will be on track after lunch but Marc and his team will take a break and start their testing programme on Tuesday, with Marc’s brother – 2014 Moto3 World Champion Alex – enjoying some laps on the Factory RC213V as a gift from Honda. Team Quotes 1st - 2014 World Championship: 1st “I am so pleased, especially for my brother! It is a very happy day, even more than in Motegi when I was crowned Champion. Today Alex took the Moto3 title that he deserved, and to cap it off I was able to close the year with a victory here in Valencia. I congratulate my brother for his season, because both him and Honda have done a great job this year! Now it's time to celebrate in the way that the occasion deserves, because it will be difficult to repeat another season like this. During today's race I was reminded of Aragon, because it was raining and there was a moment in which I considered whether or not to change the bike. In the end we stayed calm and today we were successful with our strategy. It was an ordeal which I enjoyed but suffered a bit at times! Thanks to the whole team for all their efforts this season!” 3rd - 2014 World Championship: 4th “It has not been my best season and obviously I'm not satisfied, but you have to take the positives from the situation because we learned a lot this year. Over the next few days we have some testing and we will try to get the best out of the bike for the next test, which comes in February. Today's race was difficult. It rained a lot in some areas of the track and it was very hard to keep upright because other parts of the track it was dry. We had to take risks and also be careful at the same time. On the other hand, we finished on the podium and that's good because we hadn’t taken points at the previous two races.” race results   Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana - Round 18 Pos. Rider Num. Nation Points Team Constructor Time/Gap 1 Marc Marquez 93 ESP 25 Repsol Honda Team HONDA 46'39.627 2 Valentino Rossi 46 ITA 20 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP YAMAHA +3.516 3 Dani Pedrosa 26 ESP 16 Repsol Honda Team HONDA +14.040 4 Andrea Dovizioso 4 ITA 13 Ducati Team DUCATI +16.705 5 Cal Crutchlow 35 GBR 11 Ducati Team DUCATI +16.773 6 Pol Espargaro 44 ESP 10 Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA +37.884 7 Aleix Espargaro 41 ESP 9 NGM Mobile Forward Racing YAMAHA +38.168 8 Stefan Bradl 6 GER 8 LCR Honda MotoGP HONDA +41.803 9 Michele Pirro 51 ITA 7 Ducati Team DUCATI +45.710 10 Scott Redding 45 GBR 6 Go & Fun Honda Gresini HONDA +51.191 11 Hector Barbera 8 ESP 5 Avintia Racing MotoGP FTR-KAWASAKI +56.512 12 Danilo Petrucci 9 ITA 4 IodaRacing Project IODA-SUTER +57.000 13 Nicky Hayden 69 USA 3 Drive M7 Aspar HONDA +57.262 14 Bradley Smith 38 GBR 2 Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA +57.517 15 Hiroshi Aoyama 7 JPN 1 Drive M7 Aspar HONDA +58.775 16 Alvaro Bautista 19 ESP   Go & Fun Honda Gresini HONDA +58.864 17 Karel Abraham 17 CZE   Cardion AB Motoracing HONDA +1'02.389 18 Alex De Angelis 15 RSM   NGM Mobile Forward Racing YAMAHA +1'15.795 19 Michael Laverty 70 GBR   Paul Bird Motorsport ART & PBM +1'26.309 20 Broc Parkes 23 AUS   Paul Bird Motorsport PBM +1'37.212 21 Mike Di Meglio 63 FRA   Avintia Racing MotoGP FTR-KAWASAKI +1 lap 22 Andrea Iannone 29 ITA   Pramac Racing DUCATI +1 lap 23 Jorge Lorenzo 99 ESP   Movistar Yamaha MotoGP YAMAHA DNF 24 Randy De Puniet 14 FRA   Team Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI DNF 25 Yonny Hernandez 68 COL   Pramac Racing DUCATI DNF Rider standings Sunday, November 9th 2014 Pos. Rider Num. Nation Points Team Constructor 1 Marc Marquez 93 ESP 362 Repsol Honda Team HONDA 2 Valentino Rossi 46 ITA 295 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP YAMAHA 3 Jorge Lorenzo 99 ESP 263 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP YAMAHA 4 Dani Pedrosa 26 ESP 246 Repsol Honda Team HONDA 5 Andrea Dovizioso 4 ITA 187 Ducati Team DUCATI 6 Pol Espargaro 44 ESP 136 Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA 7 Aleix Espargaro 41 ESP 126 NGM Mobile Forward Racing YAMAHA 8 Bradley Smith 38 GBR 121 Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA 9 Stefan Bradl 6 GER 117 LCR Honda MotoGP HONDA 10 Andrea Iannone 29 ITA 102 Pramac Racing DUCATI 11 Alvaro Bautista 19 ESP 89 Go & Fun Honda Gresini HONDA 12 Scott Redding 45 GBR 81 Go & Fun Honda Gresini HONDA 13 Cal Crutchlow 35 GBR 75 Ducati Team DUCATI 14 Hiroshi Aoyama 7 JPN 68 Drive M7 Aspar HONDA 15 Yonny Hernandez 68 COL 53 Pramac Racing DUCATI 16 Nicky Hayden 69 USA 47 Drive M7 Aspar HONDA 17 Karel Abraham 17 CZE 33 Cardion AB Motoracing HONDA 18 Hector Barbera 8 ESP 26 Avintia Racing MotoGP FTR-KAWASAKI 19 Michele Pirro 51 ITA 18 Ducati Team DUCATI 20 Danilo Petrucci 9 ITA 17 IodaRacing Project IODA-SUTER 21 Alex De Angelis 15 RSM 15 NGM Mobile Forward Racing YAMAHA 22 Colin Edwards 5 USA 11 NGM Mobile Forward Racing YAMAHA 23 Broc Parkes 23 AUS 9 Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 24 Michael Laverty 70 GBR 9 Paul Bird Motorsport ART & PBM 25 Mike Di Meglio 63 FRA 9 Avintia Racing MotoGP FTR-KAWASAKI 26 Katsuyuki Nakasuga 21 JPN 4 YAMALUBE Racing Team with YSP YAMAHA 27 Leon Camier 2 GBR 1 Drive M7 Aspar HONDA 28 Randy De Puniet 14 FRA 0 Team Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI 29 Michel Fabrizio 84 ITA 0 IodaRacing Project IODA-SUTER Copyright Free Images - For Editorial use only                                                Circuit Information View circuit page at www.repsolhondateam.com Length 4.005 m / 2.489 miles Width 12m Left corners 9 Right corners 5 Longest straight 876 m / 0.544 miles Constructed 1999 Modified     Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Autovía A3 Valencia-Madrid Salida 334. 46380 - Cheste (Valencia) SPAIN T: +34 96 252 52 20   www.circuitvalencia.com   Pole position 1m 30.237s (159.7km/h) Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013) Race lap 1m 31.515s (157.5km/h) Marc Marquez (Honda, 2014) Race time 46m 10.302s (156.1 km/h) Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha, 2013) 2013 Race Winner Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) 2014 Race Winner Marc Marquez (Honda)   Honda Racing Corporation 3-15-1, Senzui, Asaka-shi, Saitama-Pref., 351-0024 Japan