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[1][2][3]
Location	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
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^[4] 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 pole position, recording 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 gave 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, with the gap gradually extending in Márquez' favour over the next few laps, the Spaniard eventually winning 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 became 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 the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in 2014 in Termas de Río Hondo, Argentina. Bradl finished in second place, recorded his first podium in MotoGP and Rossi finished in third place.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	32	44:00.695	2	25
2	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	32	+2.298	1	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	32	+4.498	4	16
4	19	Álvaro Bautista	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	Honda	32	+4.557	3	13
5	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	32	+9.257	7	11
6	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	32	+12.970	6	10
7	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	32	+15.304	5	9
8	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	32	+33.963	10	8
9	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	32	+34.129	8	7
10	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Blusens	FTR	32	+1:02.369	13	6
11	15	Alex de Angelis	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	32	+1:02.604	14	5
12	5	Colin Edwards	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	32	+1:03.593	15	4
13	9	Danilo Petrucci	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	32	+1:20.420	16	3
14	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	ART	31	+1 lap	19	2
15	68	Yonny Hernández	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	31	+1 lap	18	1
16	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Avintia Blusens	FTR	31	+1 lap	21
17	67	Bryan Staring	Go&Fun Honda Gresini	FTR Honda	31	+1 lap	22
18	52	Lukáš Pešek	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	31	+1 lap	23
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	7	Mechanical	9
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	5	Accident	11
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	4	Engine	12
Ret	71	Claudio Corti	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	3	Mechanical	17
Ret	70	Michael Laverty	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	1	Accident	20
WD	79	Blake Young	Attack Performance Racing	APR		Bike damaged
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Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Márquez 163 2 Dani Pedrosa 147 3 Jorge Lorenzo 137 4 Valentino Rossi 117 5 Cal Crutchlow 116

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 201 2 Yamaha 188 3 Ducati 83 4 ART 54 5 FTR 25

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