# 2013 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas

The 2013 Grand Prix of the Americas was the second round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas on 21 April 2013. This was the first GP race at the circuit.
Marc Márquez won his first MotoGP race, in which was only his second race in the top level, and became the youngest ever rider to win a MotoGP race.
It was the first Grand Prix since the 1982 Swedish Grand Prix where in all three categories, there were three new winners: at the Anderstorp it was Iván Palazzese (125cc), Roland Freymond (250cc) and Takazumi Katayama (500cc) who won.

## Classification
### MotoGP

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 21 | 43:42.123 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 21 | +1.534 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 21 | +3.381 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 21 | +6.616 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 21 | +12.674 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 21 | +16.615 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 21 | +22.374 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | Honda | 21 | +22.854 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | 21 | +33.773 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Energy T.I. Pramac Racing | Ducati | 21 | +42.112 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 21 | +48.837 | 9 | 5 |
| 12 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 21 | +50.705 | 11 | 4 |
| 13 | 11 | Ben Spies | Ignite Pramac Racing | Ducati | 21 | +1:14.132 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 21 | +1:15.651 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 68 | Yonny Hernández | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART | 21 | +1:19.591 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 70 | Michael Laverty | Paul Bird Motorsport | PBM | 21 | +1:34.391 | 17 | |
| 17 | 7 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Avintia Blusens | FTR | 21 | +1:39.823 | 21 | |
| 18 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Avintia Blusens | FTR | 21 | +1:39.952 | 15 | |
| 19 | 71 | Claudio Corti | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | FTR Kawasaki | 21 | +1:46.773 | 19 | |
| 20 | 67 | Bryan Staring | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | FTR Honda | 21 | +1:48.084 | 22 | |
| 21 | 79 | Blake Young | Attack Performance Racing | APR | 20 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda-Suter | 13 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda-Suter | 13 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 5 | Colin Edwards | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | FTR Kawasaki | 11 | Retirement | 18 | |
| DNS | 17 | Karel Abraham | Cardion AB Motoracing | ART | 0 | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 44 | Mike Barnes | GPTech | BCL | 0 | Did not qualify | | |
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### Moto2

| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Suter | 19 | 42:02.689 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 80 | Esteve Rabat | Kalex | 19 | +3.125 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 19 | +3.175 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 19 | +4.873 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 45 | Scott Redding | Kalex | 19 | +5.597 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Suter | 19 | +9.295 | 17 | 10 |
| 7 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Speed Up | 19 | +14.472 | 24 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Speed Up | 19 | +16.051 | 25 | 8 |
| 9 | 24 | Toni Elías | Kalex | 19 | +19.696 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Motobi | 19 | +20.107 | 18 | 6 |
| 11 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 19 | +23.287 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Kalex | 19 | +23.547 | 8 | 4 |
| 13 | 81 | Jordi Torres | Suter | 19 | +23.815 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | Speed Up | 19 | +33.488 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 3 | Simone Corsi | Speed Up | 19 | +35.424 | 6 | 1 |
| 16 | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 19 | +35.532 | 21 | |
| 17 | 52 | Danny Kent | Tech 3 | 19 | +42.451 | 13 | |
| 18 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Moriwaki | 19 | +44.314 | 26 | |
| 19 | 60 | Julián Simón | Kalex | 19 | +44.688 | 10 | |
| 20 | 9 | Kyle Smith | Kalex | 19 | +58.964 | 19 | |
| 21 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Suter | 19 | +59.940 | 23 | |
| 22 | 44 | Steven Odendaal | Speed Up | 19 | +1:00.107 | 30 | |
| 23 | 96 | Louis Rossi | Tech 3 | 19 | +1:00.702 | 27 | |
| 24 | 7 | Doni Tata Pradita | Suter | 19 | +1:08.996 | 29 | |
| 25 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kalex | 19 | +1:24.281 | 20 | |
| DSQ | 95 | Anthony West | Speed Up | 19 | (+9.440) | 11 | |
| Ret | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Suter | 9 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 97 | Rafid Topan Sucipto | Speed Up | 7 | Retirement | 31 | |
| Ret | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 6 | Retirement | 2 | |
| Ret | 17 | Alberto Moncayo | Speed Up | 6 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 40 | Pol Espargaró | Kalex | 3 | Accident | 7 | |
| DNS | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Suter | 0 | Did not start | | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 42 | Álex Rins | KTM | 5 | 11:26.535 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | KTM | 5 | +0.244 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 39 | Luis Salom | KTM | 5 | +0.547 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex KTM | 5 | +1.230 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Mahindra | 5 | +8.276 | 18 | 11 |
| 6 | 8 | Jack Miller | FTR Honda | 5 | +8.603 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 5 | +10.147 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | Alexis Masbou | FTR Honda | 5 | +12.037 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | 41 | Brad Binder | Suter Honda | 5 | +12.263 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | Kalex KTM | 5 | +12.737 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 99 | Danny Webb | Suter Honda | 5 | +13.221 | 8 | 5 |
| 12 | 61 | Arthur Sissis | KTM | 5 | +14.030 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | FTR Honda | 5 | +15.822 | 11 | 3 |
| 14 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Mahindra | 5 | +16.593 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 31 | Niklas Ajo | KTM | 5 | +21.094 | 7 | 1 |
| 16 | 58 | Juan Francisco Guevara | TSR Honda | 5 | +21.205 | 27 | |
| 17 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | Kalex KTM | 5 | +21.351 | 25 | |
| 18 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | Honda | 5 | +21.599 | 16 | |
| 19 | 3 | Matteo Ferrari | FTR Honda | 5 | +21.772 | 30 | |
| 20 | 22 | Ana Carrasco | KTM | 5 | +22.003 | 26 | |
| 21 | 17 | John McPhee | FTR Honda | 5 | +23.267 | 28 | |
| 22 | 4 | Francesco Bagnaia | FTR Honda | 5 | +30.965 | 31 | |
| 23 | 57 | Eric Granado | Kalex KTM | 5 | +31.591 | 20 | |
| Ret | 77 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | FTR Honda | 2 | Accident | 29 | |
| Ret | 12 | Álex Márquez | KTM | 2 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 9 | Toni Finsterbusch | Kalex KTM | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 5 | Romano Fenati | FTR Honda | 0 | Did not restart | 17 | |
| Ret | 53 | Jasper Iwema | Kalex KTM | Retired during the initial part of the race. | Retired during the initial part of the race. | 19 | |
| Ret | 66 | Florian Alt | Kalex KTM | Retired during the initial part of the race. | Retired during the initial part of the race. | 21 | |
| Ret | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | FTR Honda | Retired during the initial part of the race. | Retired during the initial part of the race. | 23 | |
| Ret | 89 | Alan Techer | TSR Honda | Retired during the initial part of the race. | Retired during the initial part of the race. | 24 | |
| DNS | 29 | Hyuga Watanabe | Honda | 0 | Did not start | | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||
Notes:
* ^1 – The Moto3 race was stopped after ten laps and restarted over a distance of five laps.

## 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 | Marc Márquez | 41 |
| 2 | Jorge Lorenzo | 41 |
| 3 | Dani Pedrosa | 33 |
| 4 | Valentino Rossi | 30 |
| 5 | Cal Crutchlow | 24 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 41 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 41 |
| 3 | Ducati | 18 |
| 4 | ART | 10 |
| 5 | FTR | 3 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.