2015 German motorcycle Grand Prix

2015 German Grand Prix
Race details
Race 9 of 18 races in the; 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	12 July 2015
Official name	GoPro Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland
Location	Sachsenring
Course	Permanent racing facility; 3.671 km (2.281 mi);
MotoGP
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Marc Márquez
Time	1:20.336
Fastest lap
Rider	Marc Márquez
Time	1:21.530 on lap 10
Podium
First	Marc Márquez
Second	Dani Pedrosa
Third	Valentino Rossi
Moto2
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Johann Zarco
Time	1:24.044
Fastest lap
Rider	Franco Morbidelli
Time	1:24.538 on lap 6
Podium
First	Xavier Siméon
Second	Johann Zarco
Third	Álex Rins
Moto3
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Danny Kent
Time	1:26.420
Fastest lap
Rider	Danny Kent
Time	1:26.916 on lap 3
Podium
First	Danny Kent
Second	Efrén Vázquez
Third	Enea Bastianini

The 2015 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.^[4] It was held at the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal on 12 July 2015.

In the MotoGP class, Marc Márquez secured his fourth pole position of the season, and ultimately took his second victory of the season — his sixth successive wins from pole position at Sachsenring, ahead from his teammate Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi, who finished in third place. Scott Redding and Andrea Dovizioso crashed out from the race before the halfway mark. Hiroshi Aoyama, who previously replace Pedrosa at Repsol Honda Team — replaced an injured Karel Abraham, also crashed out from the race. Mike Di Meglio and Claudio Corti, who replaced an injured Stefan Bradl, force to retire from the race. Eugene Laverty's older brother, Michael Laverty return to MotoGP race as he replaced Marco Melandri as Melandri left Aprilia Racing Team Gresini after he failing to score any point after the first eight races. With this result, Rossi continue leading his championshionship over 13 points from Jorge Lorenzo.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	41:01.087	1	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+2.226	2	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	30	+5.608	6	16
4	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	30	+9.928	3	13
5	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati Team	Ducati	30	+20.785	4	11
6	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+23.215	9	10
7	35	Cal Crutchlow	CWM LCR Honda	Honda	30	+29.881	10	9
8	44	Pol Espargaró	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+34.953	8	8
9	9	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	30	+35.875	15	7
10	41	Aleix Espargaró	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	30	+37.253	7	6
11	25	Maverick Viñales	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	30	+37.274	12	5
12	68	Yonny Hernández	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	30	+42.081	5	4
13	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Racing	Ducati	30	+48.611	13	3
14	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	30	+50.687	16	2
15	43	Jack Miller	CWM LCR Honda	Honda	30	+53.769	18	1
16	69	Nicky Hayden	Aspar MotoGP Team	Honda	30	+58.921	19
17	50	Eugene Laverty	Aspar MotoGP Team	Honda	30	+1:02.738	23
18	15	Alex de Angelis	E-Motion IodaRacing Team	ART	30	+1:03.122	17
19	76	Loris Baz	Athinà Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	30	+1:11.162	20
20	70	Michael Laverty	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	30	+1:15.910	24
Ret	71	Claudio Corti	Athinà Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	22	Retirement	25
Ret	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	14	Accident	11
Ret	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	AB Motoracing	Honda	4	Accident	22
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Ducati	3	Retirement	21
Ret	45	Scott Redding	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	0	Accident	14
Sources: ^[5]^[6]^[7]

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	29	41:09.295	2	25
2	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	29	+0.083	1	20
3	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	29	+1.646	12	16
4	3	Simone Corsi	Kalex	29	+6.386	5	13
5	22	Sam Lowes	Speed Up	29	+9.284	9	11
6	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	29	+10.432	4	10
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	29	+10.592	11	9
8	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	29	+12.518	16	8
9	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	29	+14.862	15	7
10	77	Dominique Aegerter	Kalex	29	+14.953	13	6
11	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	29	+17.529	7	5
12	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	29	+18.820	10	4
13	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	29	+21.849	19	3
14	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	29	+22.362	8	2
15	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	29	+23.275	14	1
16	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	29	+23.429	17
17	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	29	+28.507	22
18	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	29	+32.740	24
19	88	Ricard Cardús	Tech 3	29	+33.465	20
20	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	29	+33.508	27
21	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	29	+55.191	26
22	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Kalex	29	+57.449	28
23	15	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	29	+57.776	25
Ret	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	28	Accident	3
Ret	1	Tito Rabat	Kalex	28	Accident	6
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	25	Retirement	29
Ret	23	Marcel Schrötter	Tech 3	5	Accident	21
Ret	25	Azlan Shah	Kalex	5	Accident	23
Ret	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	4	Accident	18
DNS	66	Florian Alt	Suter		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	52	Danny Kent	Honda	27	39:29.359	1	25
2	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	27	+7.554	4	20
3	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	27	+9.603	5	16
4	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	27	+9.629	12	13
5	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	27	+9.664	7	11
6	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	27	+9.807	11	10
7	41	Brad Binder	KTM	27	+9.837	8	9
8	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	27	+10.266	10	8
9	55	Andrea Locatelli	Honda	27	+10.352	9	7
10	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	27	+11.558	13	6
11	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	27	+11.777	15	5
12	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	27	+18.416	6	4
13	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	27	+18.426	2	3
14	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	27	+28.782	21	2
15	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	27	+28.892	19	1
16	11	Livio Loi	Honda	27	+28.958	14
17	17	John McPhee	Honda	27	+29.218	23
18	32	Isaac Viñales	Husqvarna	27	+29.478	17
19	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	27	+29.750	16
20	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	27	+45.844	18
21	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	27	+46.658	34
22	29	Stefano Manzi	Mahindra	27	+46.780	25
23	2	Remy Gardner	Mahindra	27	+46.840	24
24	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	27	+46.965	22
25	12	Matteo Ferrari	Mahindra	27	+47.339	29
26	91	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	27	+1:06.125	31
27	45	Jonas Geitner	KTM	27	+1:24.437	33
Ret	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	23	Accident	27
Ret	6	María Herrera	Husqvarna	23	Accident	30
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	20	Accident	28
Ret	97	Maximilian Kappler	FTR Honda	12	Accident	32
Ret	20	Fabio Quartararo	Honda	5	Accident	3
Ret	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	5	Retirement	20
Ret	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	1	Retirement	26
DNS	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	Mahindra		Did not start
DNS	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	179
2	Jorge Lorenzo	166
3	Andrea Iannone	118
4	Marc Márquez	114
5	Andrea Dovizioso	87
6	Bradley Smith	87
7	Dani Pedrosa	67

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	207
2	Honda	159
3	Ducati	143
4	Suzuki	70
5	Yamaha Forward	19
6	Aprilia	13
7	ART	1

Teams' Championship standings

Pos.	Team	Points
1	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	345
2	Ducati Team	205
3	Repsol Honda Team	186
4	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	151
5	Team Suzuki Ecstar	101
6	Octo Pramac Racing	83
7	CWM LCR Honda	78

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

References

^ "2015 German MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "2015 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Sachsenring - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
^ "2015 provisional MotoGP calendar announced". motogp.com. Dorna Sports. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
^ "2015 German MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
^ "GoPro MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX DEUTSCHLAND · MotoGP Race Classification 2015". Motogp.com. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
^ "2015 German MotoGp : Race Classifications" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
^ "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2015. Retrieved 2019-08-26.

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[1] "2015 German MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[2] Mitchell, Malcolm. "2015 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

[3] Mitchell, Malcolm. "Sachsenring - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[4] "2015 provisional MotoGP calendar announced". motogp.com. Dorna Sports. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.

[5] "2015 German MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

[6] "GoPro MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX DEUTSCHLAND · MotoGP Race Classification 2015". Motogp.com. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

[7] "2015 German MotoGp : Race Classifications" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

[8] "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2015. Retrieved 2019-08-26.

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