2012 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

Report

Moto2

During a Friday practice session, newly crowned Moto2 champion Marc Márquez knocked Simone Corsi off his bike while attempting an overtake and was penalised for riding in an irresponsible manner by Race Direction. He was told to start the race from 33rd and last place on the grid. Pol Espargaró took pole position, and was joined on the front row by Thomas Lüthi and Takaaki Nakagami.

Within the first three corners of the race, Márquez had overtaken twenty riders and moved up to 13th place; by the end of the first lap, he was running in 11th. Espargaró got away from the line cleanly but struggled to maintain pace in the wet conditions, and quickly began to cede positions. Aspar rider Nicolás Terol took the race lead, and quickly set a gap from the rest of the field. On lap 9 he was caught by Julián Simón, who then stretched out his own gap ahead of Terol. Márquez became embroiled in a midfield battle with Dominique Aegerter and Gino Rea, who crashed out at the halfway point. Márquez began to lap over a second faster than any other rider on track. During the last laps of the race he hunted down first Terol and then Simón, who had seemed on course for his first Moto2 race win. Márquez ultimately claimed his ninth victory of the season by +1.256 seconds on Simón. Third-placed Terol finished over eleven seconds off the pace.

This was Márquez's last race in Moto2, as he moved into MotoGP for the 2013 season. Espargaró secured second in the championship behind Márquez by finishing in eighth. Simón and Terol (who took his first Moto2 podium) completed an all-Spanish podium.

Classification

MotoGP

Moto2

Moto3

Notes

Marc Márquez's comeback from 33rd to the win was the biggest comeback in all of the history in the Championship.

Dani Pedrosa, who made the pole position in MotoGP, started the race from the pit lane because he entered to the boxes for a bike change because the tarmac was drying, like Alvaro Bautista, Nicky Hayden and Cal Crutchlow. The Spanish rider, despite this, won the race after Jorge Lorenzo crashed heavily when the Yamaha rider tried to lap James Ellison.

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eighteen has concluded.

;Riders' Championship standings

;Constructors' Championship standings

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2011 Valencian Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2013 Valencian Grand Prix

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