# 2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 6–8 November 2009 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. It was the final race of the 250cc two-stroke class, as Moto2 (600cc four-stroke) replaced it from 2010 onwards. The MotoGP race was won by Dani Pedrosa.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 3 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | 46:47.553 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +2.630 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +2.913 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +32.515 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 30 | +34.585 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 24 | Toni Elías | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 30 | +34.888 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 11 | Ben Spies | Sterilgarda Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +37.706 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +38.364 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 30 | +42.491 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 30 | +43.689 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 30 | +46.018 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 52 | James Toseland | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +50.226 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 44 | Aleix Espargaró | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 30 | +57.168 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 30 | +1:06.877 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 7 | Chris Vermeulen | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 30 | +1:11.701 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 41 | Gábor Talmácsi | Scot Racing Team MotoGP | Honda | 30 | +1:14.405 | 17 | |
| 17 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Hayate Racing Team | Kawasaki | 30 | +1:33.425 | 15 | |
| DNS | 27 | Casey Stoner | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 0 | Accident in the warm-up lap | 1 | |
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* ^1 – Casey Stoner did not start the race. His place on the grid was left vacant.

## 250 cc classification

Alex Debón was due to start on pole position, but due to injuries sustained in qualifying practice he did not take part in the race. Therefore, everyone else was moved up one place on the final starting grid.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 40 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 27 | 44:10.601 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 27 | +3.663 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Honda | 27 | +5.665 | 10 | 16 |
| 4 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Aprilia | 27 | +5.680 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Honda | 27 | +13.601 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 27 | +13.697 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 27 | +27.438 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 27 | +35.097 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Gilera | 27 | +35.866 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 48 | Shoya Tomizawa | Honda | 27 | +40.176 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 73 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 27 | +49.095 | 19 | 5 |
| 12 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Aprilia | 27 | +53.132 | 17 | 4 |
| 13 | 11 | Balázs Németh | Aprilia | 27 | +1:06.014 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Aprilia | 27 | +1:18.692 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 53 | Valentin Debise | Honda | 27 | +1:18.876 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 8 | Bastien Chesaux | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 17 | 56 | Vladimir Leonov | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| 18 | 33 | William Dunlop | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| 19 | 10 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 23 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 20 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 7 | Axel Pons | Aprilia | 19 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Honda | 7 | Accident | 9 | |
| DNS | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | | Injured | | |
| OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT ||||||||

## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 60 | Julián Simón | Aprilia | 24 | 41:17.553 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Aprilia | 24 | +0.220 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Derbi | 24 | +12.123 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 24 | +17.577 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 78 | Marcel Schrötter | Honda | 24 | +17.917 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Derbi | 24 | +18.334 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Derbi | 24 | +18.502 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Derbi | 24 | +18.553 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 35 | Randy Krummenacher | Aprilia | 24 | +18.731 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Aprilia | 24 | +21.280 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Derbi | 24 | +23.635 | 19 | 5 |
| 12 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 24 | +34.369 | 22 | 4 |
| 13 | 39 | Luis Salom | Aprilia | 24 | +37.950 | 24 | 3 |
| 14 | 73 | Takaaki Nakagami | Aprilia | 24 | +38.090 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 14 | Johann Zarco | Aprilia | 24 | +40.043 | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 24 | +44.478 | 14 | |
| 17 | 93 | Marc Márquez | KTM | 24 | +58.437 | 4 | |
| 18 | 53 | Jasper Iwema | Honda | 24 | +1:03.814 | 25 | |
| 19 | 42 | Alberto Moncayo | Aprilia | 24 | +1:08.362 | 33 | |
| 20 | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Loncin | 24 | +1:24.971 | 28 | |
| 21 | 87 | Luca Marconi | Aprilia | 23 | +1 lap | 32 | |
| Ret | 16 | Cameron Beaubier | KTM | 23 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 10 | Luca Vitali | Aprilia | 21 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 94 | Jonas Folger | Aprilia | 17 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 76 | Iván Maestro | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 31 | |
| Ret | 21 | Jakub Kornfeil | Loncin | 9 | Accident | 30 | |
| Ret | 17 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia | 8 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 32 | Lorenzo Savadori | Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 12 | Esteve Rabat | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 50 | Sturla Fagerhaug | KTM | 4 | Accident | 29 | |
| Ret | 88 | Michael Ranseder | Aprilia | 3 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 1 | Retirement | 13 | |
| DNS | 95 | Joan Perelló | Honda | 0 | Did not start | 26 | |
| DNS | 99 | Danny Webb | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 19 | Quentin Jacquet | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |
| OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT ||||||||

## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 306 |
| 2 | Jorge Lorenzo | 261 |
| 3 | Dani Pedrosa | 234 |
| 4 | Casey Stoner | 220 |
| 5 | Colin Edwards | 161 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 386 |
| 2 | Honda | 297 |
| 3 | Ducati | 272 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 133 |
| 5 | Kawasaki | 108 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.