2011 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2011 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 18 races in the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 October 2011
Official name	Iveco Australian Grand Prix
Location	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.448 km (2.764 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Casey Stoner
Time	1:29.975
Fastest lap
Rider	Casey Stoner
Time	1:30.629
Podium
First	Casey Stoner
Second	Marco Simoncelli
Third	Andrea Dovizioso
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Alex de Angelis
Time	1:34.574
Fastest lap
Rider	Alex de Angelis
Time	1:34.549
Podium
First	Alex de Angelis
Second	Stefan Bradl
Third	Marc Márquez
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Johann Zarco
Time	1:39.207
Fastest lap
Rider	Sandro Cortese
Time	1:40.276
Podium
First	Sandro Cortese
Second	Luis Salom
Third	Johann Zarco

The 2011 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 October 2011 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.

Australian rider Casey Stoner clinched the 2011 MotoGP World Championship with his fifth consecutive victory at his home Grand Prix on his 26th birthday. Italian rider Marco Simoncelli recorded his final podium finish at this event before being fatally injured at the following race in Malaysia.

MotoGP classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Honda	27	42:02.425	1	25
2	58	Marco Simoncelli	Honda	27	+2.210	2	20
3	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	27	+2.454	4	16
4	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	27	+13.160	6	13
5	5	Colin Edwards	Yamaha	27	+30.886	7	11
6	14	Randy de Puniet	Ducati	27	+48.800	9	10
7	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	27	+1:16.314	5	9
8	24	Toni Elías	Honda	26	+1 lap	14	8
9	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati	26	+1 lap	8	7
10	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	25	+2 laps	13	6
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Suzuki	23	Accident	3
Ret	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	23	Accident	10
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	Yamaha	23	Accident	12
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati	13	Accident	11
DNS	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha		Injury
DNS	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha		Injury
DNS	6	Damian Cudlin	Ducati		Injury
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2 classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	15	Alex de Angelis	Motobi	25	39:44.774	1	25
2	65	Stefan Bradl	Kalex	25	+1.358	8	20
3	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	25	+6.362	381	16
4	71	Claudio Corti	Suter	25	+6.475	20	13
5	44	Pol Espargaró	FTR	25	+14.815	6	11
6	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Suter	25	+15.155	5	10
7	45	Scott Redding	Suter	25	+15.261	4	9
8	29	Andrea Iannone	Suter	25	+16.047	16	8
9	63	Mike Di Meglio	Tech 3	25	+16.331	2	7
10	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	25	+20.337	3	6
11	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	25	+22.081	9	5
12	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	25	+26.248	13	4
13	40	Aleix Espargaró	Pons Kalex	25	+29.295	24	3
14	51	Michele Pirro	Moriwaki	25	+30.203	12	2
15	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	25	+30.745	22	1
16	36	Mika Kallio	Suter	25	+30.776	15
17	88	Ricard Cardús	Moriwaki	25	+30.784	27
18	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	25	+43.520	7
19	80	Axel Pons	Pons Kalex	25	+47.064	25
20	35	Raffaele de Rosa	Suter	25	+50.357	19
21	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	25	+50.364	33
22	9	Kenny Noyes	FTR	25	+1:04.747	26
23	6	Joan Olivé	FTR	25	+1:04.907	30
24	68	Yonny Hernández	FTR	25	+1:19.734	29
25	20	Iván Moreno	Suter	24	+1 lap	31
26	64	Santiago Hernández	FTR	24	+1 lap	34
27	56	Blake Leigh-Smith	FTR	24	+1 lap	35
28	95	Mashel Al Naimi	Moriwaki	24	+1 lap	37
Ret	39	Robertino Pietri	Suter	20	Retirement	36
Ret	53	Valentin Debise	FTR	19	Retirement	28
Ret	43	Kris McLaren	Suter	14	Accident	32
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	12	Accident	23
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Suter	12	Retirement	21
Ret	76	Max Neukirchner	MZ-RE Honda	1	Accident	11
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	FTR	0	Accident	10
Ret	18	Jordi Torres	Suter	0	Accident	14
Ret	34	Esteve Rabat	FTR	0	Accident	17
Ret	13	Anthony West	MZ-RE Honda	0	Accident	18
DNS	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	FTR		Injury
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Notes

• ^1 – Márquez had one minute added onto his qualifying time for crashing into the back of Wilairot at the end of the Friday morning practice session.^[1]

125 cc classification

The race was stopped after 20 laps due to an accident involving Niklas Ajo.^[2]

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	20	34:49.670	2	25
2	39	Luis Salom	Aprilia	20	+13.572	10	20
3	5	Johann Zarco	Derbi	20	+14.311	1	16
4	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	20	+14.926	6	13
5	23	Alberto Moncayo	Aprilia	20	+22.328	8	11
6	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	20	+26.689	4	10
7	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	20	+28.887	5	9
8	25	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	20	+35.635	9	8
9	96	Louis Rossi	Aprilia	20	+36.553	12	7
10	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	20	+36.686	18	6
11	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	20	+38.608	19	5
12	3	Luigi Morciano	Aprilia	20	+41.697	11	4
13	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Aprilia	20	+43.349	13	3
14	10	Alexis Masbou	KTM	20	+47.896	15	2
15	50	Sturla Fagerhaug	Aprilia	20	+55.159	23	1
16	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Aprilia	20	+56.909	16
17	28	Josep Rodríguez	Aprilia	20	+1:10.093	20
18	17	Taylor Mackenzie	Aprilia	20	+1:10.237	27
19	60	Manuel Tatasciore	Aprilia	20	+1:10.802	21
20	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Derbi	20	+1:10.844	26
21	14	Brad Binder	Aprilia	20	+1:27.965	24
22	52	Danny Kent	Aprilia	20	+1:37.676	7
23	8	Jack Miller	KTM	20	+1:40.315	28
24	40	Marco Colandrea	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	30
25	30	Giulian Pedone	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	23
26	46	Joshua Hook	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	32
27	26	Adrián Martín	Aprilia	19	+1 lap	14
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	Aprilia	19	Accident	17
Ret	36	Joan Perelló	Aprilia	12	Retirement	29
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	Aprilia	9	Retirement	25
Ret	47	Nicky Diles	Aprilia	6	Retirement	31
DNS	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia		Engine	3
DNS	21	Harry Stafford	Aprilia		Injury
DNQ	48	Alexander Phillis	Aprilia
DNQ	45	Tom Hatton	Honda
DNQ	49	Avalon Biddle	Honda
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

References

1. ↑ "Márquez handed qualification penalty at Phillip Island". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 14 October 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011. 
2. ↑ "Cortese takes a red flagged Australian GP". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 16 October 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011.