# 2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the nineteenth and final round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 18 November 2018.
In the Moto3 race, Red Bull KTM Ajo wildcard Can Öncü made history by winning on his debut, becoming the youngest ever Grand Prix winner at the age of 15 years, 115 days.
In the MotoGP class, no Yamaha or Honda rider finished on the podium for the first time since the 2007 San Marino Grand Prix.
In the Moto2 class, this was the final race for the Honda CBR600RR inline-4 engine package and also the final race for the Tech 3 Mistral 610 and Suter MMX2 chassis packages that débuted at the 2010 Qatar Grand Prix, since a new 765cc (46.7 cu in) inline-3 engine supplied by Triumph Motorcycles was introduced and Tech 3 and Forward Racing switched manufacturers to KTM and MV Agusta respectively in 2019.

## Classification
### MotoGP

The race, scheduled to be run for 27 laps, was red-flagged after 13 full laps, as heavy rain had caused multiple riders to crash and racing conditions were deemed too dangerous. For the restart, the race distance was 14 laps.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 14 | 24:03.408 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 42 | Álex Rins | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 14 | +2.750 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 14 | +7.406 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 51 | Michele Pirro | Ducati Team | Ducati | 14 | +8.647 | 12 | 13 |
| 5 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 14 | +13.351 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | LCR Honda Idemitsu | Honda | 14 | +32.288 | 14 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 14 | +32.806 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 14 | +33.111 | 22 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda Castrol | Honda | 14 | +36.376 | 20 | 7 |
| 10 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 14 | +37.198 | 21 | 6 |
| 11 | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 14 | +44.326 | 24 | 5 |
| 12 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati Team | Ducati | 14 | +46.146 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 14 | +52.809 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 14 | +1:10.628 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 81 | Jordi Torres | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 14 | +1:16.739 | 23 | 1 |
| Ret | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 7 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | | Did not restart | 1 | |
| Ret | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | | Did not restart | 4 | |
| Ret | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | | Did not restart | 5 | |
| Ret | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | | Did not restart | 7 | |
| Ret | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | | Did not restart | 8 | |
| Ret | 43 | Jack Miller | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | | Did not restart | 10 | |
| Ret | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | | Did not restart | 15 | |
| Ret | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | | Did not restart | 17 | |
| DNS | 10 | Xavier Siméon | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | | Did not start | | |
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* Xavier Siméon was declared unfit to start the race following two crashes in practice.

### Moto2

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM | 25 | 45:07.639 | 10 | 25 |
| 2 | 27 | Iker Lecuona | KTM | 25 | +13.201 | 21 | 20 |
| 3 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 25 | +22.175 | 16 | 16 |
| 4 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 25 | +28.892 | 14 | 13 |
| 5 | 87 | Remy Gardner | Tech 3 | 25 | +30.106 | 17 | 11 |
| 6 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | Speed Up | 25 | +32.126 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 25 | +33.086 | 3 | 9 |
| 8 | 40 | Augusto Fernández | Kalex | 25 | +33.950 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 5 | Andrea Locatelli | Kalex | 25 | +35.707 | 18 | 7 |
| 10 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Kalex | 25 | +37.019 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | KTM | 25 | +43.844 | 24 | 5 |
| 12 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 25 | +45.871 | 20 | 4 |
| 13 | 4 | Steven Odendaal | NTS | 25 | +49.113 | 22 | 3 |
| 14 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 25 | +53.288 | 4 | 2 |
| 15 | 2 | Jesko Raffin | Kalex | 25 | +1:08.712 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Suter | 25 | +1:25.666 | 28 | |
| 17 | 18 | Xavi Cardelús | Kalex | 25 | +1:32.166 | 29 | |
| 18 | 95 | Jules Danilo | Kalex | 25 | +1:47.502 | 30 | |
| 19 | 21 | Federico Fuligni | Kalex | 24 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| 20 | 3 | Lukas Tulovic | Suter | 24 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| Ret | 66 | Niki Tuuli | Kalex | 19 | Accident Damage | 25 | |
| Ret | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Kalex | 13 | Accident Damage | 2 | |
| Ret | 16 | Joe Roberts | NTS | 8 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 70 | Tommaso Marcon | Speed Up | 7 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Kalex | 5 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 3 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 22 | Sam Lowes | KTM | 3 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi | Kalex | 2 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 0 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 0 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 36 | Joan Mir | Kalex | 0 | Accident | 7 | |
| DNS | 14 | Héctor Garzó | Tech 3 | | Did not start | | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 61 | Can Öncü | KTM | 23 | 43:06.370 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 88 | Jorge Martín | Honda | 23 | +4.071 | 13 | 20 |
| 3 | 17 | John McPhee | KTM | 23 | +6.130 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 23 | +12.897 | 15 | 13 |
| 5 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 23 | +14.735 | 14 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Jaume Masiá | KTM | 23 | +21.984 | 16 | 10 |
| 7 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 23 | +26.641 | 25 | 9 |
| 8 | 41 | Nakarin Atiratphuvapat | Honda | 23 | +30.758 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | 42 | Marcos Ramírez | KTM | 23 | +33.411 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 31 | Celestino Vietti | KTM | 23 | +39.008 | 23 | 6 |
| 11 | 71 | Ayumu Sasaki | Honda | 23 | +42.332 | 24 | 5 |
| 12 | 81 | Stefano Nepa | KTM | 23 | +48.931 | 28 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | Raúl Fernández | KTM | 23 | +54.434 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 23 | +54.585 | 27 | 2 |
| 15 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | KTM | 23 | +56.424 | 8 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Kazuki Masaki | KTM | 23 | +57.222 | 22 | |
| 17 | 19 | Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 23 | +1:00.541 | 29 | |
| 18 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Honda | 23 | +1:35.093 | 20 | |
| 19 | 40 | Darryn Binder | KTM | 22 | +1 lap | 19 | |
| 20 | 12 | Marco Bezzecchi | KTM | 22 | +1 lap | 6 | |
| Ret | 77 | Vicente Pérez | KTM | 21 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 15 | Handling | 26 | |
| Ret | 14 | Tony Arbolino | Honda | 11 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 26 | Izam Ikmal | Honda | 7 | Accident | 30 | |
| Ret | 75 | Albert Arenas | KTM | 6 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 27 | Kaito Toba | Honda | 4 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 10 | Dennis Foggia | KTM | 1 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 44 | Arón Canet | Honda | 0 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 72 | Alonso López | Honda | 0 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Honda | 0 | Accident | 18 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||

## Championship standings after the race

* Bold text indicates the World Champions.