# 2009 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2009 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 April 2009 at the Twin Ring Motegi, located in Motegi, Japan. The MotoGP race was the 700th premier class race in the history of Grand Prix motorcycle racing. Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP race ahead of teammate Valentino Rossi to take the overall lead in the world championship.

## Qualifying

All qualifying sessions for MotoGP, 250cc and 125cc were cancelled due to adverse weather conditions and grid positions for Sunday's races were defined according to combined free practice times.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 24 | 43:47.238 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 24 | +1.304 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 3 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | +3.763 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 24 | +5.691 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | +9.207 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Hayate Racing Team | Kawasaki | 24 | +30.555 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 24 | +32.756 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +39.416 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 52 | James Toseland | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +43.106 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Chris Vermeulen | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 24 | +43.245 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 24 | +44.834 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +46.540 | 5 | 4 |
| 13 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 24 | +53.525 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 88 | Niccolò Canepa | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +1:21.804 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Toni Elías | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 23 | +1 lap | 9 | 1 |
| Ret | 59 | Sete Gibernau | Grupo Francisco Hernando | Ducati | 17 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 0 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Scot Racing Team MotoGP | Honda | 0 | Accident | 13 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 23 | 44:06.488 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 23 | +5.889 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 23 | +21.832 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Aprilia | 23 | +25.906 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 23 | +30.785 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 73 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 23 | +33.788 | 17 | 10 |
| 7 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Aprilia | 23 | +36.972 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Aprilia | 23 | +41.018 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 23 | +41.649 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 48 | Shoya Tomizawa | Honda | 23 | +52.863 | 25 | 6 |
| 11 | 40 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 23 | +1:00.888 | 5 | 5 |
| 12 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Honda | 23 | +1:06.347 | 6 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 23 | +1:53.149 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 59 | Kazuki Watanabe | Yamaha | 22 | +1 lap | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 56 | Vladimir Leonov | Aprilia | 22 | +1 lap | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 8 | Bastien Chesaux | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| 17 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 22 | +1 lap | 1 | |
| 18 | 77 | Aitor Rodríguez | Aprilia | 22 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Honda | 18 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 17 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Honda | 6 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 7 | Axel Pons | Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Gilera | 2 | Accident | 9 | |
| OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT ||||||||

## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 20 | 42:23.716 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 60 | Julián Simón | Aprilia | 20 | +1.346 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Derbi | 20 | +5.039 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 17 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia | 20 | +6.904 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 93 | Marc Márquez | KTM | 20 | +13.061 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Derbi | 20 | +14.841 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Derbi | 20 | +16.420 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Aprilia | 20 | +16.483 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Derbi | 20 | +27.500 | 6 | 7 |
| 10 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Aprilia | 20 | +30.359 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | 99 | Danny Webb | Aprilia | 20 | +37.547 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Loncin | 20 | +43.856 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 12 | Esteve Rabat | Aprilia | 20 | +59.889 | 4 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 20 | +1:00.141 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 20 | +1:02.601 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | Cameron Beaubier | KTM | 20 | +1:02.609 | 23 | |
| 17 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Aprilia | 20 | +1:09.867 | 5 | |
| 18 | 35 | Randy Krummenacher | Aprilia | 20 | +1:09.883 | 22 | |
| 19 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 20 | +1:15.049 | 12 | |
| 20 | 73 | Takaaki Nakagami | Aprilia | 20 | +1:19.858 | 21 | |
| 21 | 5 | Alexis Masbou | Loncin | 20 | +1:43.413 | 25 | |
| 22 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Derbi | 20 | +1:52.910 | 20 | |
| 23 | 69 | Lukáš Šembera | Aprilia | 20 | +2:07.124 | 32 | |
| 24 | 58 | Yuuichi Yanagisawa | Honda | 20 | +2:07.402 | 26 | |
| 25 | 87 | Luca Marconi | Aprilia | 19 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| 26 | 10 | Luca Vitali | Aprilia | 19 | +1 lap | 34 | |
| 27 | 55 | Hiroomi Iwata | Honda | 19 | +1 lap | 29 | |
| 28 | 59 | Satoru Kamada | Honda | 19 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| 29 | 57 | Yuki Oogane | Honda | 18 | +2 laps | 33 | |
| Ret | 56 | Yuma Yahagi | Honda | 11 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 14 | Johann Zarco | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 18 | |
| Ret | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia | 6 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 32 | Lorenzo Savadori | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 53 | Jasper Iwema | Honda | 0 | Accident | 31 | |
| DNS | 88 | Michael Ranseder | Haojue | | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 66 | Matthew Hoyle | Haojue | | 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 two has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Jorge Lorenzo | 41 |
| 2 | Valentino Rossi | 40 |
| 3 | Casey Stoner | 38 |
| 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | 22 |
| 5 | Dani Pedrosa | 21 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 45 |
| 2 | Ducati | 38 |
| 3 | Honda | 27 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 18 |
| 5 | Kawasaki | 12 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.