2011 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup explained

The 2011 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup season was the fifth season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. The season began at Circuito de Jerez on 2 April and ended on 3 September at the Misano World Circuit after 14 races. The races, contested by the riders on equal KTM machinery, were held at eight meetings on the Grand Prix motorcycle racing calendar.

Calendar

The season saw an expanded calendar, from six meetings up to eight meetings, adding events at Estoril for the first time since 2008, and Silverstone for the first time.^[1] Of the eight meetings, six were double-headers, with single races at Mugello and Misano.

2011 calendar
Round	Date	Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Race winner
1	2 April	Jerez	Brad Binder	Philipp Öttl	Philipp Öttl
	3 April			Philipp Öttl	Arthur Sissis
2	30 April	Estoril	Brad Binder	Brad Binder	Brad Binder
	1 May			Aaron España	Arthur Sissis
3	11 June	Silverstone	Alan Techer	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Lukas Trautmann
	12 June			Lorenzo Baldassarri	Lorenzo Baldassarri
4	24 June	Assen	James Flitcroft	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Lorenzo Baldassarri
	25 June			Florian Alt	Arthur Sissis
5	2 July	Mugello	Stefano Valtulini	Philipp Öttl	Arthur Sissis
6	16 July	Sachsenring	Philipp Öttl	Philipp Öttl	Philipp Öttl
	17 July			Florian Alt	Alan Techer
7	13 August	Brno	Florian Alt	Scott Deroue	Joe Roberts
	14 August			Joe Roberts	Alan Techer
8	3 September	Misano	Florian Alt	Florian Alt	Florian Alt

Entry list

2011 entry list^[2]
	Rider	Rounds
5	Philipp Öttl	1, 3–8
7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	All
8	Hafiq Azmi	All
16	Andrea Migno	All
18	James Flitcroft	All
19	Kevin Arginò	All
22	Aaron España	All
25	Willi Albert	All
26	Deni Cudic	1–5
27	Joe Roberts	All
32	Max Enderlein	All
34	Xavier Pinsach	1–7
41	Brad Binder	All
43	Stefano Valtulini	All
47	Tomáš Vavrouš	All
50	Lukas Trautmann	All
61	Arthur Sissis	All
66	Florian Alt	1, 3–8
67	Joakim Niemi	All
69	Javier Orellana	All
75	Ivo Lopes	All
77	Kyle Ryde	All
89	Alan Techer	All
95	Scott Deroue	All
96	Josep García	1–3, 7–8

Championship standings

Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers, provided the rider finished the race.

Pos. Rider JER EST SIL ASS MUG SAC BRN MIS Pts 1 Lorenzo Baldassarri 4 12 3 2 4 1 1 2 4 6 4 6 6 3 208 2 Arthur Sissis 6 1 2 1 9 7 2 1 1 18 Ret 2 Ret 4 199 3 Alan Techer 3 Ret 4 4 6 3 Ret 4 8 4 1 Ret 1 6 162 4 Philipp Öttl 1 2 17 Ret 7 9 5 1 6 9 9 2 141 5 Tomáš Vavrouš Ret Ret Ret 11 12 10 16 6 2 5 5 3 2 5 114 6 Florian Alt 5 Ret 8 Ret 17 3 6 14 2 11 8 1 105 7 Brad Binder 2 Ret 1 17 15 Ret 10 20 10 2 9 12 10 Ret 95 8 Ivo Lopes 20 8 6 Ret 2 4 4 16 22 10 12 14 7 8 93 9 Xavier Pinsach 7 Ret 7 3 14 5 Ret 5 7 Ret 7 5 Ret 87 10 Lukas Trautmann 10 Ret 10 6 1 2 5 18 21 16 Ret 19 Ret 12 82 11 Stefano Valtulini 15 Ret 16 14 7 6 12 8 12 15 8 4 5 9 78 12 Joe Roberts 12 9 11 5 16 14 13 15 16 17 Ret 1 12 13 65 13 Aaron España 8 3 8 8 Ret Ret 18 11 3 Ret 18 22 16 21 61 14 Kevin Arginò 17 4 14 10 3 Ret 6 13 20 13 Ret 10 14 16 61 15 Scott Deroue 23 11 17 Ret 19 15 9 7 14 3 16 16 3 20 56 16 Joakim Niemi 19 5 5 7 Ret Ret 8 Ret 13 7 Ret 13 15 17 55 17 James Flitcroft Ret 7 Ret 9 18 11 3 Ret Ret Ret 17 21 4 Ret 50 18 Hafiq Azmi 16 Ret Ret 15 5 8 11 Ret 17 11 11 7 19 19 44 19 Kyle Ryde 13 6 12 12 23 Ret 20 14 18 12 14 20 11 7 43 20 Andrea Migno 11 Ret 9 Ret 21 16 19 10 15 8 10 15 13 14 39 21 Willi Albert 21 Ret 18 Ret 11 17 14 12 11 20 3 17 18 15 33 22 Max Enderlein 14 10 15 16 20 9 Ret 19 19 9 13 18 17 11 31 23 Javier Orellana 9 Ret DNS DNS 13 13 15 Ret 9 19 15 8 Ret 18 30 24 Josep García 22 13 13 13 10 Ret Ret 20 10 21 25 Deni Cudic 18 Ret DNS DNS 22 12 21 17 Ret 4 Pos. Rider JER EST SIL ASS MUG SAC BRN MIS Pts

Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap

External links

• Official Site
• Season at FIM-Website

Notes and References

1. News: 2011 Rookies Cup Calendar released. Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. Red Bull. 27 October 2010. 2 June 2011.
2. News: Monteblanco selection for 2011 Rookies Cup. Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. Red Bull. 15 September 2010. 2 June 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110715164433/http://redbullrookiescup.com/news_detail.php?id=166. 2011-07-15. dead.