The 2007 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the opening round of the 2007 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 8–10 March 2007 at the 5.38 km Losail International Circuit in Qatar.
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| Race 1 of 18 races in the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 10 March 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Losail International Circuit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The MotoGP race was the first for the 800cc (48.8 cu in) engines and the Honda RC212V. These were brought in as replacements for the 990cc (60.4 cu in) engines and the Honda RC211V which were used since the beginning of the four-stroke era back in 2002.
MotoGP classification
edit| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 27 |  Casey Stoner | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 22 | 43:02.788 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 |  Valentino Rossi | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 22 | +2.838 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 |  Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +8.530 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 21 |  John Hopkins | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 22 | +9.071 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Honda Gresini | Honda | 22 | +17.433 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 22 | +18.647 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 71 | Chris Vermeulen | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 22 | +22.916 | 13 | 9 |
| 8 | 1 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 22 | +23.057 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | 4 |  Alex Barros | Pramac d'Antin | Ducati | 22 | +25.961 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 56 |  Shinya Nakano | Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 22 | +28.456 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 66 |  Alex Hofmann | Pramac d'Antin | Ducati | 22 | +35.029 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 19 |  Olivier Jacque | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 22 | +42.948 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | KR212V | 22 | +42.977 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda Gresini | Honda | 22 | +42.989 | 4 | 2 |
| 15 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 22 | +51.639 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 22 | +57.853 | 19 | |
| Ret | 88 | Andrew Pitt | Ilmor GP | Ilmor GP | 15 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 7 | Carlos Checa | Honda LCR | Honda | 8 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 7 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 6 | Accident | 7 | |
| DNS | 99 |  Jeremy McWilliams | Ilmor GP | Ilmor GP | 0 | Did not start | 20 | |
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250 cc classification
edit| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 1 | Jorge Lorenzo | Aprilia | 20 | 40:23.753 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 3 |  Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 20 | +1.224 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 20 | +2.911 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 12 |  Thomas Lüthi | Aprilia | 20 | +3.234 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 20 | +12.698 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Gilera | 20 | +21.568 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 20 | +31.540 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 60 | Julián Simón | Honda | 20 | +40.467 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 20 | +46.192 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 73 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 20 | +58.678 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia | 20 | +1:02.762 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Aprilia | 20 | +1:07.715 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 20 | +1:10.622 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 |  Ratthapark Wilairot | Honda | 20 | +1:11.594 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 20 | +1:12.499 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 20 | +1:23.751 | 23 | |
| 17 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 20 | +1:33.143 | 20 | |
| 18 | 50 |  Eugene Laverty | Honda | 20 | +1:38.458 | 24 | |
| 19 | 10 |  Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 20 | +1:38.548 | 19 | |
| Ret | 36 |  Mika Kallio | KTM | 18 | Retirement | 8 | |
| Ret | 9 | Arturo Tizón | Aprilia | 14 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 44 | Taro Sekiguchi | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 17 |  Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | KTM | 2 | Accident | 6 | |
| OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT | |||||||
125 cc classification
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Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
editBelow are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.[5]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
edit- ^ "2007 Qatar MotoGP". Motorpsortmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ "2007 Qatar MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motrosportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ "OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ "Commercialbank GRAND PRIX OF QATAR · MotoGP Race Classification 2007". Motogp.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2007. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
External links
edit- "FIM results archive". Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. Archived from the original on 2012-05-27. Retrieved 2010-11-23. (Click on More details... for full classification)