# 2012 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2012 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and final round of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 9–11 November 2012 at the Circuito Ricardo Tormo.
The race was Casey Stoner's last before his retirement from the sport, and he finished it on the podium in third position. Dani Pedrosa won the race for Honda and ensure the season ended with 18 points between himself and new champion Jorge Lorenzo, who retired from the race, at the top of the riders' standings. The result meant that Pedrosa had won 6 of the last 8 races, and that Lorenzo maintained his record of finishing first or second in every race he finished in 2012. Katsuyuki Nakasuga made just his second appearance in 2012 in place of the injured Ben Spies at Yamaha, and took advantage of the wet conditions to finish in second place (the only podium for a Japanese rider in any class in 2012).
Marc Márquez won the Moto2 race, despite starting from 33rd on the grid, although he had moved up to 13th within the first three corners. It was Márquez's last Moto2 race, as he would replace Stoner at the Honda team for the 2013 season. Polesitter Pol Espargaró secured second in the championship behind Márquez by finishing in eighth. Julián Simón and Nicolás Terol (who took his first Moto2 podium) completed an all Spanish podium. Danny Kent took his second victory of the Moto3 season in front of champion Sandro Cortese and Zulfahmi Khairuddin to complete an all KTM podium.

## Classification
### MotoGP

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | 48:23.819 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 21 | Katsuyuki Nakasuga | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 30 | +37.661 | 16 | 20 |
| 3 | 1 | Casey Stoner | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +1:00.633 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 30 | +1:02.811 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 51 | Michele Pirro | San Carlo Honda Gresini | FTR | 30 | +1:26.608 | 15 | 11 |
| 6 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +1:30.423 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Cardion AB Motoracing | Ducati | 30 | +1:31.789 | 13 | 9 |
| 8 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Came IodaRacing Project | -Ioda-Suter | 29 | +1 lap | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 77 | James Ellison | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART | 29 | +1 lap | 20 | 7 |
| 10 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Ducati Team | Ducati | 29 | +1 lap | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 29 | +1 lap | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 28 | +2 laps | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 73 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Avintia Blusens | BQR | 28 | +2 laps | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 5 | Colin Edwards | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | Suter | 27 | +3 laps | 14 | 2 |
| Ret | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 22 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 71 | Claudio Corti | Avintia Blusens | Inmotec | 17 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 16 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 13 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 6 | Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 9 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 84 | Roberto Rolfo | Speed Master | ART | 6 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 22 | Iván Silva | Avintia Blusens | BQR | 2 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | 2 | Accident | 7 | |
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### Moto2

| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Suter | 27 | 48:50.706 | 33 | 25 |
| 2 | 60 | Julián Simón | Suter | 27 | +1.256 | 11 | 20 |
| 3 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Suter | 27 | +11.372 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Suter | 27 | +13.006 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 27 | +13.825 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 81 | Jordi Torres | Suter | 27 | +27.911 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 27 | +36.338 | 15 | 9 |
| 8 | 40 | Pol Espargaró | Kalex | 27 | +38.335 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | 24 | Toni Elías | Kalex | 27 | +39.419 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 80 | Esteve Rabat | Kalex | 27 | +39.476 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Speed Up | 27 | +40.207 | 9 | 5 |
| 12 | 8 | Gino Rea | Suter | 27 | +41.197 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 17 | Dani Rivas | Kalex | 27 | +41.768 | 26 | 3 |
| 14 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | FTR | 27 | +41.943 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | AJR | 27 | +42.303 | 28 | 1 |
| 16 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Tech 3 | 27 | +43.064 | 21 | |
| 17 | 3 | Simone Corsi | FTR | 27 | +49.970 | 8 | |
| 18 | 75 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Suter | 27 | +51.639 | 27 | |
| 19 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Kalex | 27 | +53.198 | 18 | |
| 20 | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 27 | +54.632 | 25 | |
| 21 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Bimota | 27 | +56.401 | 24 | |
| 22 | 45 | Scott Redding | Kalex | 27 | +56.974 | 7 | |
| 23 | 22 | Alessandro Andreozzi | Speed Up | 27 | +59.679 | 29 | |
| 24 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Suter | 27 | +1:16.201 | 23 | |
| 25 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | FTR | 27 | +1:16.352 | 22 | |
| 26 | 28 | Román Ramos | FTR | 27 | +1:18.354 | 20 | |
| 27 | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Tech 3 | 27 | +1:26.234 | 12 | |
| 28 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Kalex | 27 | +1:29.530 | 16 | |
| 29 | 57 | Eric Granado | Motobi | 26 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| 30 | 97 | Rafid Topan Sucipto | Speed Up | 25 | +2 laps | 30 | |
| Ret | 82 | Elena Rosell | Speed Up | 17 | Accident | 32 | |
| Ret | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 14 | Retirement | 3 | |
| Ret | 5 | Johann Zarco | Motobi | 10 | Accident | 10 | |
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### Moto3

| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 52 | Danny Kent | KTM | 24 | 45:05.891 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | KTM | 24 | +0.056 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 24 | +0.114 | 17 | 16 |
| 4 | 41 | Brad Binder | Kalex KTM | 24 | +0.431 | 15 | 13 |
| 5 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | FTR Honda | 24 | +4.371 | 16 | 11 |
| 6 | 96 | Louis Rossi | FTR Honda | 24 | +7.605 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | FTR Honda | 24 | +14.931 | 14 | 9 |
| 8 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | FTR Honda | 24 | +18.495 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | 31 | Niklas Ajo | KTM | 24 | +23.180 | 22 | 7 |
| 10 | 39 | Luis Salom | Kalex KTM | 24 | +23.245 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | Kalex KTM | 24 | +27.532 | 26 | 5 |
| 12 | 58 | Juan Francisco Guevara | FTR Honda | 24 | +30.331 | 21 | 4 |
| 13 | 27 | Niccolò Antonelli | FTR Honda | 24 | +31.255 | 8 | 3 |
| 14 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | FTR Honda | 24 | +34.660 | 10 | 2 |
| 15 | 28 | Josep Rodríguez | FGR Honda | 24 | +50.522 | 30 | 1 |
| 16 | 42 | Álex Rins | Suter Honda | 24 | +50.554 | 18 | |
| 17 | 30 | Giulian Pedone | Suter Honda | 24 | +51.725 | 28 | |
| 18 | 5 | Romano Fenati | FTR Honda | 24 | +51.826 | 11 | |
| 19 | 61 | Arthur Sissis | KTM | 24 | +52.970 | 19 | |
| 20 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | FTR Honda | 24 | +57.930 | 23 | |
| 21 | 89 | Alan Techer | TSR Honda | 24 | +1:00.758 | 24 | |
| 22 | 29 | Luca Amato | Kalex KTM | 24 | +1:47.794 | 20 | |
| 23 | 51 | Kenta Fujii | TSR Honda | 24 | +1:47.977 | 33 | |
| 24 | 80 | Armando Pontone | Ioda | 23 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| Ret | 8 | Jack Miller | Honda | 19 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret | 9 | Toni Finsterbusch | Honda | 19 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 99 | Danny Webb | Mahindra | 18 | Retirement | 34 | |
| Ret | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Suter Honda | 15 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | FTR Honda | 15 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 95 | Miroslav Popov | Mahindra | 9 | Retirement | 35 | |
| Ret | 17 | John McPhee | KRP Honda | 9 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex KTM | 7 | Retirement | 1 | |
| Ret | 26 | Adrián Martín | FTR Honda | 7 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 3 | Luigi Morciano | Ioda | 4 | Retirement | 32 | |
| Ret | 12 | Álex Márquez | Suter Honda | 3 | Accident | 12 | |
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