2012 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

2012 Italian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 9 of 18 races in the; 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	15 July 2012
Official name	Gran Premio d'Italia TIM
Location	Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello
Course	Permanent racing facility; 5.245 km (3.259 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:47.284
Fastest lap
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:47.705
Podium
First	Jorge Lorenzo
Second	Dani Pedrosa
Third	Andrea Dovizioso
Moto2
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Pol Espargaró
Time	1:52.369
Fastest lap
Rider	Thomas Lüthi
Time	1:52.815
Podium
First	Andrea Iannone
Second	Pol Espargaró
Third	Thomas Lüthi
Moto3
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Maverick Viñales
Time	1:57.980
Fastest lap
Rider	Sandro Cortese
Time	1:58.569
Podium
First	Maverick Viñales
Second	Romano Fenati
Third	Sandro Cortese

The 2012 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 13–15 July 2012 at the Mugello Circuit.

Classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	23	41:37.477	2	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+5.223	1	20
3	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	+10.665	7	16
4	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	23	+10.711	8	13
5	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	23	+11.695	10	11
6	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	23	+12.060	6	10
7	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	23	+12.235	4	9
8	1	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+30.617	5	8
9	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	23	+31.728	3	7
10	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	23	+34.589	11	6
11	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	23	+57.862	9	5
12	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	23	+59.963	13	4
13	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	23	+1:11.200	12	3
14	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	23	+1:11.458	16	2
15	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Master	ART	23	+1:11.828	17	1
16	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	22	+1 lap	18
Ret	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	10	Retirement	19
Ret	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	9	Retirement	15
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda	3	Retirement	20
DSQ	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR		Disqualified	14
Sources: ^[2]^[3]^[4]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	21	39:52.523	3	25
2	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	21	+0.090	1	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	21	+0.897	5	16
4	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	21	+1.025	6	13
5	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	21	+3.796	2	11
6	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	21	+3.911	7	10
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	21	+4.425	9	9
8	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	21	+11.366	12	8
9	71	Claudio Corti	Kalex	21	+12.817	14	7
10	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	21	+13.031	18¹	6
11	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	21	+13.129	22	5
12	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	21	+13.362	15	4
13	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	21	+15.199	10	3
14	60	Julián Simón	Suter	21	+17.238	19	2
15	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	21	+36.556	20	1
16	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	21	+47.701	28
17	72	Yuki Takahashi	FTR	21	+51.966	13
18	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	21	+53.969	11
19	8	Gino Rea	Suter	21	+54.654	25
20	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	21	+1:08.279	30
21	57	Eric Granado	Motobi	21	+1:14.807	32
22	63	Mike Di Meglio	MZ-RE Honda	21	+1 lap	16
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	21	(+1 lap)^[5]	27
Ret	24	Toni Elías	Suter	14	Retirement	23
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	Suter	12	Retirement	24
Ret	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	10	Retirement	8
Ret	55	Massimo Roccoli	Bimota	8	Retirement	31
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	7	Retirement	21
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	7	Retirement	26
Ret	82	Elena Rosell	Moriwaki	6	Retirement	33
Ret	22	Alessandro Andreozzi	Speed Up	5	Retirement	29
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	FTR	2	Retirement	4
Ret	76	Max Neukirchner	Kalex	1	Retirement	17
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Notes:

^1 — Johann Zarco was given a fifteen-place grid penalty for riding in an irresponsible manner, following a collision with Pol Espargaró.^[6]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	25	Maverick Viñales	FTR Honda	20	39:57.374	1	25
2	5	Romano Fenati	FTR Honda	20	+0.020	8	20
3	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	20	+0.071	2	16
4	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTR Honda	20	+5.788	6	13
5	52	Danny Kent	KTM	20	+5.836	5	11
6	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTR Honda	20	+5.860	4	10
7	42	Álex Rins	Suter Honda	20	+5.906	3	9
8	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTR Honda	20	+18.195	13	8
9	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	20	+19.232	7	7
10	55	Héctor Faubel	Kalex KTM	20	+19.308	10	6
11	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	20	+35.855	28	5
12	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	20	+35.872	17	4
13	26	Adrián Martín	FTR Honda	20	+36.175	24	3
14	74	Kevin Calia	Honda	20	+36.195	15	2
15	71	Michael Ruben Rinaldi	Honda	20	+36.270	20	1
16	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTR Honda	20	+36.285	19
17	89	Alan Techer	TSR Honda	20	+36.446	14
18	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda	20	+36.651	21
19	32	Isaac Viñales	FTR Honda	20	+51.252	23
20	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	20	+57.030	32
21	8	Jack Miller	Honda	20	+57.136	25
22	15	Simone Grotzkyj	Suter Honda	20	+57.148	27
23	30	Giulian Pedone	Suter Honda	20	+57.151	22
24	41	Brad Binder	Kalex KTM	20	+1:07.228	18
25	51	Kenta Fujii	TSR Honda	20	+1:23.679	35
26	21	Iván Moreno	FTR Honda	20	+1:31.341	30
27	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	20	+1:55.845	34
Ret	44	Miguel Oliveira	Suter Honda	12	Retirement	16
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	FGR Honda	8	Retirement	31
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Ioda	6	Retirement	26
Ret	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	4	Retirement	29
Ret	23	Alberto Moncayo	Kalex KTM	3	Retirement	12
Ret	39	Luis Salom	Kalex KTM	3	Retirement	9
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	FTR Honda	1	Retirement	11
Ret	20	Riccardo Moretti	Mahindra	0	Retirement	33
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.^[7]

^ "2012 Italian MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
^ "2012 Italian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
^ "motogp.com · GRAN PREMIO D'ITALIA TIM · MotoGP Race Classification 2012". www.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 2015-02-24. 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.
^ "Lüthi on top in eventful Mugello final free practice". MotoGP.com. 14 July 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2012. Retrieved 2019-08-25.

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