# 2015 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2015 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló on 14 June 2015.
In the MotoGP category, Suzuki's Aleix Espargaró took the manufacturer's first pole position since returning to MotoGP, but he crashed out of the race with 5 laps remaining. Jorge Lorenzo took his fourth win in succession, ahead of Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa, who achieved his first podium of the season. Only 16 riders finished the race as amongst others, Marc Márquez, Andrea Dovizioso, Cal Crutchlow, Pol Espargaró, Yonny Hernández and Nicky Hayden retired from the race. Stefan Bradl took his first win in the Open category finishing in eighth place.

## Classification
### MotoGP

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 25 | 42:53.208 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 25 | +0.885 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 25 | +19.455 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Ducati Team | Ducati | 25 | +24.925 | 12 | 13 |
| 5 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 25 | +27.782 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 25 | +29.559 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | 45 | Scott Redding | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 25 | +36.424 | 14 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | Athinà Forward Racing | Yamaha Forward | 25 | +42.103 | 15 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Octo Pramac Racing | Ducati | 25 | +49.350 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 25 | +52.569 | 20 | 6 |
| 11 | 43 | Jack Miller | CWM LCR Honda | Honda | 25 | +53.666 | 21 | 5 |
| 12 | 50 | Eugene Laverty | Aspar MotoGP Team | Honda | 25 | +55.765 | 22 | 4 |
| 13 | 76 | Loris Baz | Athinà Forward Racing | Yamaha Forward | 25 | +55.832 | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 25 | +1:09.037 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | E-Motion IodaRacing Team | ART | 25 | +1:25.263 | 23 | 1 |
| 16 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 24 | +1 lap | 13 | |
| Ret | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 20 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Aspar MotoGP Team | Honda | 13 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 33 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 6 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 6 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 4 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 3 | Retirement | 4 | |
| Ret | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | CWM LCR Honda | Honda | 3 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 68 | Yonny Hernández | Octo Pramac Racing | Ducati | 2 | Accident | 10 | |
| DNS | 17 | Karel Abraham | AB Motoracing | Honda | | Did not start | | |
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### Moto2

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Kalex | 23 | 41:15.487 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 40 | Álex Rins | Kalex | 23 | +0.426 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 1 | Tito Rabat | Kalex | 23 | +1.115 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 22 | Sam Lowes | Speed Up | 23 | +3.914 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 39 | Luis Salom | Kalex | 23 | +7.080 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Kalex | 23 | +7.383 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex | 23 | +8.839 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Kalex | 23 | +10.352 | 23 | 8 |
| 9 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Kalex | 23 | +10.638 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 23 | +10.730 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 23 | +11.052 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 23 | +16.338 | 22 | 4 |
| 13 | 3 | Simone Corsi | Kalex | 23 | +16.649 | 8 | 3 |
| 14 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Kalex | 23 | +19.584 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 60 | Julián Simón | Speed Up | 23 | +19.657 | 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Tech 3 | 23 | +19.966 | 16 | |
| 17 | 57 | Edgar Pons | Kalex | 23 | +27.233 | 21 | |
| 18 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Kalex | 23 | +30.281 | 18 | |
| 19 | 25 | Azlan Shah | Kalex | 23 | +30.344 | 17 | |
| 20 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 23 | +39.906 | 25 | |
| 21 | 66 | Florian Alt | Suter | 23 | +43.463 | 28 | |
| 22 | 95 | Anthony West | Speed Up | 23 | +43.641 | 27 | |
| 23 | 96 | Louis Rossi | Tech 3 | 23 | +44.849 | 26 | |
| 24 | 2 | Jesko Raffin | Kalex | 23 | +48.202 | 31 | |
| 25 | 10 | Thitipong Warokorn | Kalex | 23 | +1:01.457 | 29 | |
| 26 | 93 | Ramdan Rosli | Kalex | 23 | +1:07.876 | 32 | |
| Ret | 88 | Ricard Cardús | Tech 3 | 17 | Accident | 30 | |
| Ret | 15 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Suter | 9 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 70 | Robin Mulhauser | Kalex | 7 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kalex | 0 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 0 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Kalex | 0 | Accident | 14 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 52 | Danny Kent | Honda | 22 | 40:59.419 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 22 | +0.035 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Honda | 22 | +0.600 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 22 | +0.687 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM | 22 | +0.827 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Honda | 22 | +0.913 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Husqvarna | 22 | +8.871 | 20 | 9 |
| 8 | 5 | Romano Fenati | KTM | 22 | +8.917 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 22 | +11.068 | 18 | 7 |
| 10 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 22 | +14.968 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | 88 | Jorge Martín | Mahindra | 22 | +16.596 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 55 | Andrea Locatelli | Honda | 22 | +17.340 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 31 | Niklas Ajo | KTM | 22 | +19.086 | 8 | 3 |
| 14 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | Honda | 22 | +19.320 | 7 | 2 |
| 15 | 6 | María Herrera | Husqvarna | 22 | +19.366 | 14 | 1 |
| 16 | 95 | Jules Danilo | Honda | 22 | +22.257 | 22 | |
| 17 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | Mahindra | 22 | +23.345 | 24 | |
| 18 | 10 | Alexis Masbou | Honda | 22 | +26.414 | 23 | |
| 19 | 11 | Livio Loi | Honda | 22 | +27.080 | 29 | |
| 20 | 21 | Francesco Bagnaia | Mahindra | 22 | +36.956 | 17 | |
| 21 | 12 | Matteo Ferrari | Mahindra | 22 | +37.895 | 31 | |
| 22 | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Mahindra | 22 | +37.946 | 28 | |
| 23 | 22 | Ana Carrasco | KTM | 22 | +38.088 | 34 | |
| 24 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 22 | +53.346 | 33 | |
| 25 | 2 | Remy Gardner | Mahindra | 22 | +1:02.762 | 25 | |
| 26 | 58 | Juan Francisco Guevara | Mahindra | 22 | +1:16.487 | 16 | |
| 27 | 29 | Stefano Manzi | Mahindra | 21 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| 28 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 21 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 98 | Karel Hanika | KTM | 19 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 40 | Darryn Binder | Mahindra | 17 | Retirement | 30 | |
| Ret | 17 | John McPhee | Honda | 9 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 76 | Hiroki Ono | Honda | 6 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | KTM | 0 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 91 | Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 0 | Accident | 32 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||

## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seven has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 138 |
| 2 | Jorge Lorenzo | 137 |
| 3 | Andrea Iannone | 94 |
| 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | 83 |
| 5 | Marc Márquez | 69 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 166 |
| 2 | Ducati | 119 |
| 3 | Honda | 114 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 57 |
| 5 | Yamaha Forward | 18 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.