2011 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix explained

Grand Prix:	Indianapolis
Flag:	United States
Official Name:	Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix^[1] ^[2] ^[3]
Location:	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Course Mi:	2.620
Course Km:	4.216
Race No:	12
Season No:	18
Date:	August 28,
Year:	2011
Pole Rider Motogp:	Casey Stoner
Pole Rider Motogp Country:	AUS
Pole Time Motogp:	1:38.850
Fast Rider Motogp:	Casey Stoner
Fast Rider Motogp Country:	AUS
Fast Time Motogp:	1:39.807
First Rider Motogp:	Casey Stoner
First Rider Motogp Country:	AUS
Second Rider Motogp:	Dani Pedrosa
Second Rider Motogp Country:	ESP
Third Rider Motogp:	Ben Spies
Third Rider Motogp Country:	USA
Pole Rider Moto2:	Marc Márquez
Pole Rider Moto2 Country:	ESP
Pole Time Moto2:	1:44.038
Fast Rider Moto2:	Andrea Iannone
Fast Rider Moto2 Country:	ITA
Fast Time Moto2:	1:44.329
First Rider Moto2:	Marc Márquez
First Rider Moto2 Country:	ESP
Second Rider Moto2:	Pol Espargaró
Second Rider Moto2 Country:	ESP
Third Rider Moto2:	Esteve Rabat
Third Rider Moto2 Country:	ESP
Pole Rider 125:	Nicolás Terol
Pole Rider 125 Country:	ESP
Pole Time 125:	1:48.199
Fast Rider 125:	Nicolás Terol
Fast Rider 125 Country:	ESP
Fast Time 125:	1:48.380
First Rider 125:	Nicolás Terol
First Rider 125 Country:	ESP
Second Rider 125:	Maverick Viñales
Second Rider 125 Country:	ESP
Third Rider 125:	Sandro Cortese
Third Rider 125 Country:	GER

The 2011 Indianapolis Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of August 26–28, 2011 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The event was held two weeks after the Indiana State Fair stage collapse, which led to the cancellation of the popular AMA Pro flat-track race at the Indiana State Fairgrounds which is held nearby during the Saturday night of the race meet.

MotoGP classification

The race took place in the afternoon from 14:00 local time, in dry and partly cloudy weather, with an ambient temperature of 26 °C (80 °F).^[4]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	46:52.786	1	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+4.828	4	20
3	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	28	+10.603	2	16
4	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	28	+16.576	3	13
5	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+17.202	5	11
6	19	Álvaro Bautista	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+30.447	9	10
7	5	Colin Edwards	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+39.690	6	9
8	14	Randy de Puniet	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	28	+53.416	12	8
9	7	Hiroshi Aoyama	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	28	+53.790	13	7
10	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+55.345	14	6
11	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+57.184	11	5
12	58	Marco Simoncelli	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	28	+1:00.141	7	4
13	24	Toni Elías	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+1:02.169	15	3
14	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	26	+2 laps	8	2
Ret	8	Héctor Barberá	Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP	Ducati	27	Accident	10
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	20	Retirement	16
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	16	Retirement	17
Sources:^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Moto2 classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	26	45:50.601	1	25
2	44	Pol Espargaró	FTR	26	+1.889	7	20
3	34	Esteve Rabat	FTR	26	+2.310	9	16
4	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	26	+3.389	4	13
5	45	Scott Redding	Suter	26	+5.674	11	11
6	65	Stefan Bradl	Kalex	26	+9.134	22	10
7	60	Julián Simón	Suter	26	+9.347	15	9
8	75	Mattia Pasini	FTR	26	+15.010	6	8
9	36	Mika Kallio	Suter	26	+15.031	18	7
10	40	Aleix Espargaró	Pons Kalex	26	+15.339	17	6
11	29	Andrea Iannone	Suter	26	+17.447	3	5
12	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	26	+21.727	8	4
13	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	26	+24.279	24	3
14	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	26	+25.714	2	2
15	15	Alex de Angelis	Motobi	26	+26.894	10	1
16	16	Jules Cluzel	Suter	26	+27.375	12
17	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	26	+27.546	5
18	18	Jordi Torres	Suter	26	+27.764	21
19	88	Ricard Cardús	Moriwaki	26	+27.946	14
20	51	Michele Pirro	Moriwaki	26	+29.362	13
21	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	26	+31.701	23
22	71	Claudio Corti	Suter	26	+32.030	26
23	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Suter	26	+32.100	19
24	76	Max Neukirchner	MZ-RE Honda	26	+35.387	16
25	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	26	+37.801	20
26	13	Anthony West	MZ-RE Honda	26	+42.146	30
27	63	Mike Di Meglio	Tech 3	26	+53.491	25
28	10	Martín Cárdenas	FTR	26	+58.947	31
29	73	J.D. Beach	FTR	26	+1:04.334	35
30	53	Valentin Debise	FTR	26	+1:12.230	34
31	32	Jacob Gagne	FTR	26	+1:12.503	33
32	39	Robertino Pietri	Suter	26	+1:15.177	37
33	64	Santiago Hernández	FTR	26	+1:15.899	38
34	25	Alex Baldolini	Pons Kalex	26	+1:37.102	32
35	95	Mashel Al Naimi	Moriwaki	25	+1 lap	36
Ret	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	FTR	21	Accident	27
Ret	31	Carmelo Morales	Moriwaki	15	Retirement	28
Ret	9	Kenny Noyes	FTR	7	Retirement	29
DNS	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Suter		Injury
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	23	42:11.978	1	25
2	25	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	23	+3.633	4	20
3	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	23	+3.737	2	16
4	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	23	+4.227	9	13
5	5	Johann Zarco	Derbi	23	+14.186	3	11
6	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	23	+14.200	7	10
7	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	23	+18.477	6	9
8	44	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	23	+23.992	11	8
9	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	23	+24.239	8	7
10	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Aprilia	23	+38.748	12	6
11	15	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	23	+39.194	13	5
12	96	Louis Rossi	Aprilia	23	+40.203	18	4
13	52	Danny Kent	Aprilia	23	+44.088	5	3
14	10	Alexis Masbou	KTM	23	+45.201	10	2
15	3	Luigi Morciano	Aprilia	23	+46.037	16	1
16	53	Jasper Iwema	Aprilia	23	+58.451	23
17	14	Brad Binder	Aprilia	23	+1:12.015	26
18	43	Francesco Mauriello	Aprilia	23	+1:12.898	21
19	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Derbi	23	+1:14.294	19
20	36	Joan Perelló	Aprilia	23	+1:23.947	25
21	17	Taylor Mackenzie	Aprilia	23	+1:29.369	20
22	56	Péter Sebestyén	KTM	23	+1:29.813	28
23	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Aprilia	23	+1:34.296	24
24	30	Giulian Pedone	Aprilia	21	+2 laps	27
Ret	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	22	Accident	17
Ret	26	Adrián Martín	Aprilia	20	Retirement	14
Ret	50	Sturla Fagerhaug	Aprilia	11	Accident	22
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	Aprilia	7	Accident	15
Ret	21	Harry Stafford	Aprilia	7	Retirement	29
DNS	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra		Did not start
DNS	23	Alberto Moncayo	Aprilia		Did not start
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings

	Rider	Points
1	Casey Stoner	243
2	Jorge Lorenzo	199
3	Andrea Dovizioso	174
4	Dani Pedrosa	130
5	Ben Spies	125

Constructors' Championship standings

	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	285
2	Yamaha	233
3	Ducati	135
4	Suzuki	55

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

Notes and References

Web site: 2011 Indianapolis MotoGP. 13 June 2017. Motorsportmagazine.com. 22 May 2018.
Web site: 2011 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project. Malcolm. Mitchell. www.progcovers.com.
Web site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project. Malcolm. Mitchell. Progcovers.com. 22 May 2018.
Web site: Weather History for Indianapolis, IN - Weather Underground. Wunderground.com. 22 May 2018.
Web site: 2011 Indianapolis MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database. 13 June 2017.
Web site: motogp.com · RED BULL INDIANAPOLIS GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2011. www.motogp.com.
Web site: Classification . 2008 . resources.motogp.com . PDF.
Web site: Standings . 2011. resources.motogp.com . PDF. 2019-08-25.