2012 British motorcycle Grand Prix

2012 British Grand Prix
Race details
Race 6 of 18 races in the; 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	17 June 2012
Official name	Hertz British Grand Prix
Location	Silverstone Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.900 km (3.666 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Álvaro Bautista
Time	2:03.303
Fastest lap
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo
Time	2:02.888
Podium
First	Jorge Lorenzo
Second	Casey Stoner
Third	Dani Pedrosa
Moto2
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Pol Espargaró
Time	2:08.111
Fastest lap
Rider	Thomas Lüthi
Time	2:07.667
Podium
First	Pol Espargaró
Second	Scott Redding
Third	Marc Márquez
Moto3
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Maverick Viñales
Time	2:16.187
Fastest lap
Rider	Sandro Cortese
Time	2:16.055
Podium
First	Maverick Viñales
Second	Luis Salom
Third	Sandro Cortese

The 2012 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 15–17 June 2012 at Silverstone in Northamptonshire, England. In qualifying for MotoGP, Álvaro Bautista took the first pole position of his career.

Classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	20	41:16.429	4	25
2	1	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	20	+3.313	3	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	20	+3.599	5	16
4	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	20	+5.196	1	13
5	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	20	+11.531	2	11
6	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	20	+15.112	20	10
7	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	20	+15.527	7	9
8	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	20	+22.521	9	8
9	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	20	+36.138	10	7
10	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	20	+41.328	6	6
11	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	20	+1:03.157	11	5
12	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	20	+1:03.443	12	4
13	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	20	+1:07.290	14	3
14	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	20	+1:14.782	17	2
15	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	20	+1:15.108	13	1
16	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	20	+1:29.899	15
17	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda	20	+1:40.302	18
18	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	20	+1:52.099	19
19	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	19	+1 lap	8
Ret	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Master	ART	14	Retirement	16
WD	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati		Injured
Sources: ^[4]^[5]^[6]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	18	38:29.792	1	25
2	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	18	+1.462	3	20
3	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	18	+1.521	5	16
4	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	18	+2.851	2	13
5	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	18	+3.803	10	11
6	71	Claudio Corti	Kalex	18	+7.109	6	10
7	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	18	+7.627	4	9
8	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	18	+7.669	7	8
9	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	18	+15.847	11	7
10	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	18	+20.179	18	6
11	15	Alex de Angelis	Suter	18	+20.450	9	5
12	24	Toni Elías	Suter	18	+23.017	22	4
13	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	18	+23.155	20	3
14	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	18	+23.236	12	2
15	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	18	+24.507	19	1
16	44	Roberto Rolfo	Suter	18	+26.418	13
17	76	Max Neukirchner	Kalex	18	+28.043	16
18	63	Mike Di Meglio	Speed Up	18	+28.365	15
19	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	18	+28.577	17
20	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	18	+36.100	27
21	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	18	+39.473	24
22	60	Julián Simón	Suter	18	+39.718	26
23	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	18	+39.995	25
24	8	Gino Rea	Suter	18	+40.493	14
25	72	Yuki Takahashi	Suter	18	+41.470	28
26	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Bimota	18	+1:02.611	23
27	7	Alexander Lundh	MZ-RE Honda	18	+1:08.938	29
28	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	18	+1:34.995	31
29	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	FTR	18	+1:42.775	32
30	82	Elena Rosell	Moriwaki	18	+1:44.102	34
31	57	Eric Granado	Motobi	18	+1:58.051	33
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Moriwaki	18	(+1:05.324)^[7]	30
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	7	Accident	21
Ret	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	1	Retirement	8
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	17	38:55.210	1	25
2	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	17	+0.933	6	20
3	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	17	+1.023	4	16
4	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	17	+8.100	3	13
5	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	17	+8.414	2	11
6	52	Danny Kent	KTM	17	+8.637	5	10
7	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	17	+8.940	9	9
8	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	17	+9.046	15	8
9	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	17	+9.208	8	7
10	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	17	+15.613	11	6
11	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	17	+20.397	14	5
12	55	Héctor Faubel	Kalex KTM	17	+20.559	23	4
13	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	17	+21.369	13	3
14	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	17	+27.526	18	2
15	23	Alberto Moncayo	Kalex KTM	17	+27.708	16	1
16	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	17	+28.032	12
17	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	17	+35.001	26
18	53	Jasper Iwema	FGR Honda	17	+55.456	22
19	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	17	+55.559	27
20	15	Simone Grotzkyj	Suter Honda	17	+55.829	25
21	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	17	+56.230	17
22	21	Iván Moreno	FTR Honda	17	+56.385	34
23	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	17	+1:05.383	28
24	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	17	+1:11.283	30
25	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	17	+1:18.155	31
26	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	16	+1 lap	35
27	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	16	+1 lap	32
28	17	John McPhee	KRP Honda	15	+2 laps	29
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	16	Accident	7
Ret	79	Fraser Rogers	KRP Honda	14	Retirement	33
Ret	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	11	Retirement	21
Ret	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	8	Retirement	20
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Ioda	4	Retirement	19
Ret	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	1	Accident	10
Ret	8	Jack Miller	Honda	0	Accident	24
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round six has concluded.^[8]

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^ "2012 British MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
^ "motogp.com · HERTZ BRITISH GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2012". motogp.com.
^ "Classification" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2012.
^ "Doping – Decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of rider Anthony West" (PDF). v2-fim-live.com. Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. 28 November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015. [...] all the sporting results obtained by Anthony West from 20 May 2012 up to the expiry of the period of ineligibility (i.e. 19 October 2013) will be invalidated.
^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2019.

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