2015 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix

  2015 Argentine Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 18 races in the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	19 April 2015
Official name	Gran Premio Red Bull de la República Argentina
Location	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.806 km (2.986 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Marc Márquez	Honda
Time	1:37.802
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha
Time	1:39.019 on lap 20
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha
Second	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati
Third	Cal Crutchlow	Honda
Moto2
Pole position
Rider	Johann Zarco	Kalex
Time	1:42.809
Fastest lap
Rider	Jonas Folger	Kalex
Time	1:43.001 on lap 23
Podium
First	Johann Zarco	Kalex
Second	Álex Rins	Kalex
Third	Sam Lowes	Speed Up
Moto3
Pole position
Rider	Miguel Oliveira	KTM
Time	1:48.461
Fastest lap
Rider	Miguel Oliveira	KTM
Time	1:48.977 on lap 7
Podium
First	Danny Kent	Honda
Second	Efrén Vázquez	Honda
Third	Isaac Viñales	Husqvarna

The 2015 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.^[1] It was held at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in Santiago del Estero on 19 April 2015.

In the MotoGP class, Marc Márquez took his second pole position of the season. In the race, he started well and pulled away from the field to a maximum advantage of 4 seconds. However, Valentino Rossi closed in on Márquez, and on lap 22, was right behind him. At Turn 5, Márquez made contact with Rossi, with Márquez's bike hitting Rossi's rear tyre. Márquez could not rejoin, and as a result, Rossi took his second win of the season.^[2] Andrea Dovizioso took his third successive second place, while Cal Crutchlow took Team LCR's first podium since the 2013 United States Grand Prix with third place,^[3] after passing Andrea Iannone at the final corner. Crutchlow's team-mate Jack Miller took his first win in the Open category with a twelfth-place finish, and aside from Márquez's retirement, Hiroshi Aoyama and Yonny Hernández were the only other riders not to make the finish.

Classification

MotoGP

Valentino Rossi, pictured at the 2015 Grand Prix of the Americas, was the winner of the MotoGP race.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	25	41:35.644	8	25
2	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	25	+5.685	6	20
3	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	25	+8.298	4	16
4	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	25	+8.352	3	13
5	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	25	+10.192	5	11
6	38	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	25	+19.876	10	10
7	41	Aleix Espargaró	Suzuki	25	+24.333	2	9
8	44	Pol Espargaró	Yamaha	25	+27.670	18	8
9	45	Scott Redding	Honda	25	+34.397	11	7
10	25	Maverick Viñales	Suzuki	25	+34.808	9	6
11	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	25	+40.206	7	5
12	43	Jack Miller	Honda	25	+42.654	21	4
13	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	25	+42.729	12	3
14	76	Loris Baz	Yamaha Forward	25	+42.853	22	2
15	6	Stefan Bradl	Yamaha Forward	25	+43.037	16	1
16	69	Nicky Hayden	Honda	25	+43.252	20
17	50	Eugene Laverty	Honda	25	+43.400	14
18	63	Mike Di Meglio	Ducati	25	+43.808	23
19	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	25	+44.878	19
20	33	Marco Melandri	Aprilia	25	+56.236	24
21	17	Karel Abraham	Honda	25	+1:03.371	17
22	15	Alex de Angelis	ART	25	+1:08.444	25
Ret	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	24	Accident	15
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	23	Accident	1
Ret	68	Yonny Hernández	Ducati	6	Retirement	13
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	23	39:44.497	1	25
2	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	23	+2.715	5	20
3	22	Sam Lowes	Speed Up	23	+4.161	4	16
4	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	23	+5.310	10	13
5	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	23	+7.958	22	11
6	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	23	+9.408	3	10
7	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	23	+9.926	8	9
8	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	23	+10.028	13	8
9	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	23	+10.152	6	7
10	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	23	+11.316	16	6
11	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	23	+11.764	18	5
12	1	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	23	+11.872	2	4
13	77	Dominique Aegerter	Kalex	23	+14.005	17	3
14	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	23	+20.788	19	2
15	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	23	+21.321	20	1
16	23	Marcel Schrötter	Tech 3	23	+25.693	12
17	25	Azlan Shah	Kalex	23	+26.537	25
18	88	Ricard Cardús	Tech 3	23	+26.686	21
19	44	Steven Odendaal	Kalex	23	+27.397	26
20	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	+27.779	15
21	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	23	+28.559	11
22	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	23	+35.988	9
23	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	23	+36.457	24
24	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Kalex	23	+46.710	27
25	66	Florian Alt	Suter	23	+47.522	28
26	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	23	+1:02.910	14
27	51	Zaqhwan Zaidi	Suter	23	+1:06.741	30
28	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	23	+1:06.839	29
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	18	Retirement	23
Ret	3	Simone Corsi	Kalex	1	Accident	7
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	52	Danny Kent	Honda	21	38:25.621	2	25
2	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	21	+10.334	4	20
3	32	Isaac Viñales	Husqvarna	21	+10.396	5	16
4	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	21	+10.767	1	13
5	41	Brad Binder	KTM	21	+11.117	14	11
6	20	Fabio Quartararo	Honda	21	+11.195	15	10
7	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	21	+11.388	6	9
8	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	21	+11.603	34	8
9	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	21	+11.712	9	7
10	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	21	+11.806	16	6
11	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	21	+11.958	17	5
12	11	Livio Loi	Honda	21	+12.355	10	4
13	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	21	+12.501	8	3
14	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	21	+12.644	19	2
15	17	John McPhee	Honda	21	+12.772	18	1
16	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	21	+22.477	20
17	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	21	+23.352	13
18	29	Stefano Manzi	Mahindra	21	+28.746	25
19	2	Remy Gardner	Mahindra	21	+30.409	26
20	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	21	+30.644	27
21	12	Matteo Ferrari	Mahindra	21	+30.786	24
22	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	21	+44.095	22
23	55	Andrea Locatelli	Honda	21	+45.153	28
24	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	21	+49.149	29
25	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	21	+51.073	30
26	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	21	+56.185	32
27	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	21	+1:01.461	31
28	91	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	20	+1 lap	33
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	15	Retirement	7
Ret	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	Mahindra	12	Retirement	11
Ret	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	7	Retirement	12
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	4	Accident	3
Ret	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	3	Accident	21
Ret	6	María Herrera	Husqvarna	0	Accident	23
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 66 2 Andrea Dovizioso 60 3 Andrea Iannone 40 4 Jorge Lorenzo 37 5 Marc Márquez 36

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 66 2 Ducati 60 3 Honda 52 4 Suzuki 22 5 Yamaha Forward 2

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 103 2 Ducati Team 100 3 Repsol Honda Team 51 4 Monster Yamaha Tech 3 43 5 CWM LCR Honda 40

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

References

1. "2015 provisional MotoGP calendar announced". motogp.com. Dorna Sports. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
2. "MotoGP Argentina: Rossi rules as Marquez crashes on penultimate lap". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 19 April 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
3. "Crutchlow signe son premier podium avec CWM LCR Honda" [Crutchlow records his first podium with CWM LCR Honda]. MotoGP.com (in French). Dorna Sports. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

External links

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 12 April 2015.