2013 United States motorcycle Grand Prix

  2013 United States Grand Prix

Race details
Race 9 of 18 races in the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	21 July 2013
Official name	Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix
Location	Laguna Seca, Monterey, California, United States
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.610 km (2.243 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Stefan Bradl	Honda
Time	1:21.176
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	1:21.539 on lap 5
Podium
First	Marc Márquez	Honda
Second	Stefan Bradl	Honda
Third	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha

The 2013 United States motorcycle Grand Prix (formally known as the 2013 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix)^[1] was the ninth round of the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, and the second of three races in the 2013 season to take place in the United States of America. It was held on 21 July at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California. Like always, only a MotoGP class race was held at Laguna Seca.

Stefan Bradl took his first pole position, recorded his first pole position in MotoGP. At the famous corkscrew turn on lap 4 Marc Márquez, having had a faster run out of the previous corner, ran around the outside of Valentino Rossi coming into the corkscrew and was run wide by Rossi mid-corner. Márquez replicated the overtake that Rossi made on Casey Stoner at the same corner in 2008 to pass the Italian and give chase to Bradl. The gap closed quickly at first but Márquez followed Bradl until lap 19 when he made a pass into the last corner, the gap gradually extended in Márquez' favour over the next few laps and he won his 3rd GP of the year to extend his championship lead to 16 points over Dani Pedrosa. The win also marked the beating of another of Freddie Spencer's records as Márquez is now the youngest rider to win back to back races in the Premier Class of GP racing and the first/only rookie to win at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This was the last MotoGP race to take place at Laguna Seca, which was then replaced by Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in 2014 season at Termas de Río Hondo, Argentina. Bradl finished in second place, recorded his first podium in MotoGP and Rossi finished in third place.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	32	44:00.695	2	25
2	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	32	+2.298	1	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	32	+4.498	4	16
4	19	Álvaro Bautista	Honda	32	+4.557	3	13
5	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	32	+9.257	7	11
6	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	32	+12.970	6	10
7	35	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	32	+15.304	5	9
8	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	32	+33.963	10	8
9	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	32	+34.129	8	7
10	8	Héctor Barberá	FTR	32	+1:02.369	13	6
11	15	Alex de Angelis	Ducati	32	+1:02.604	14	5
12	5	Colin Edwards	FTR Kawasaki	32	+1:03.593	15	4
13	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ioda-Suter	32	+1:20.420	16	3
14	17	Karel Abraham	ART	31	+1 lap	19	2
15	68	Yonny Hernández	ART	31	+1 lap	18	1
16	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	FTR	31	+1 lap	21
17	67	Bryan Staring	FTR Honda	31	+1 lap	22
18	52	Lukáš Pešek	Ioda-Suter	31	+1 lap	23
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	7	Mechanical	9
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	ART	5	Accident	11
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	ART	4	Engine	12
Ret	71	Claudio Corti	FTR Kawasaki	3	Mechanical	17
Ret	70	Michael Laverty	PBM	1	Accident	20
WD	79	Blake Young	APR		Bike damaged
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

References

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 22 July 2013.