# 2013 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2013 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventeen round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 27 October 2013. Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP race to gain Yamaha its 200th victory in the 500cc/MotoGP class. Pol Espargaró clinched the Moto2 world title after title contenders Scott Redding and Esteve Rabat crashed out in the race.

## Classification
### MotoGP

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 24 | 42:34.291 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | +3.188 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | +4.592 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | Honda | 24 | +19.755 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 24 | +22.810 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 24 | +24.637 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +27.496 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +30.969 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +37.010 | 3 | 7 |
| 10 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +42.944 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Katsuyuki Nakasuga | Yamaha YSP Racing Team | Yamaha | 24 | +53.345 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Colin Edwards | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | FTR Kawasaki | 24 | +1:03.213 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 24 | +1:06.840 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Energy T.I. Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +1:08.218 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 68 | Yonny Hernández | Ignite Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +1:18.240 | 10 | 1 |
| 16 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Avintia Blusens | FTR | 24 | +1:19.108 | 22 | |
| 17 | 7 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Avintia Blusens | FTR | 24 | +1:21.174 | 18 | |
| 18 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda-Suter | 24 | +1:30.546 | 16 | |
| 19 | 70 | Michael Laverty | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART | 24 | +2:23.358 | 19 | |
| 20 | 71 | Claudio Corti | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | FTR Kawasaki | 23 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| 21 | 50 | Damian Cudlin | Paul Bird Motorsport | PBM | 23 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| 22 | 67 | Bryan Staring | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | FTR Honda | 23 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 12 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 23 | Luca Scassa | Cardion AB Motoracing | ART | 1 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda-Suter | 1 | Retirement | 25 | |

### Moto2

The first attempt to run the race was interrupted on the opening lap, following an incident involving Scott Redding, Álex Mariñelarena and Esteve Rabat. For the restart, the race distance was reduced from 23 to 15 laps.
| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 40 | Pol Espargaró | Kalex | 15 | 28:15.162 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Kalex | 15 | +1.344 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Suter | 15 | +3.379 | 12 | 16 |
| 4 | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Kalex | 15 | +8.420 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 60 | Julián Simón | Kalex | 15 | +10.315 | 19 | 11 |
| 6 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Suter | 15 | +11.364 | 24 | 10 |
| 7 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Speed Up | 15 | +12.718 | 21 | 9 |
| 8 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 15 | +15.609 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Kalex | 15 | +18.414 | 22 | 7 |
| 10 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Speed Up | 15 | +20.679 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | 95 | Anthony West | Speed Up | 15 | +30.759 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 15 | +31.134 | 20 | 4 |
| 13 | 49 | Axel Pons | Kalex | 15 | +31.335 | 23 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Gino Rea | Speed Up | 15 | +31.505 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kalex | 15 | +31.801 | 11 | 1 |
| 16 | 31 | Kohta Nozane | TSR | 15 | +41.840 | 28 | |
| 17 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | Speed Up | 15 | +46.192 | 18 | |
| 18 | 94 | Franco Morbidelli | Suter | 15 | +51.771 | 25 | |
| 19 | 44 | Steven Odendaal | Speed Up | 15 | +54.433 | 32 | |
| 20 | 35 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Motobi | 15 | +55.138 | 15 | |
| 21 | 46 | Decha Kraisart | Tech 3 | 15 | +55.181 | 29 | |
| 22 | 34 | Ezequiel Iturrioz | Kalex | 15 | +1:03.592 | 30 | |
| 23 | 25 | Azlan Shah | Moriwaki | 15 | +1:32.681 | 26 | |
| Ret | 97 | Rafid Topan Sucipto | Speed Up | 11 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 5 | Johann Zarco | Suter | 9 | Retirement | 3 | |
| Ret | 81 | Jordi Torres | Suter | 8 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 96 | Louis Rossi | Tech 3 | 8 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 7 | Doni Tata Pradita | Suter | 2 | Accident | 31 | |
| Ret | 3 | Simone Corsi | Speed Up | 1 | Accident | 4 | |
| DNS | 80 | Esteve Rabat | Kalex | 0 | Did not restart | 6 | |
| DNS | 92 | Álex Mariñelarena | Kalex | 0 | Did not restart | 10 | |
| DNS | 45 | Scott Redding | Kalex | 0 | Did not restart | 14 | |
| DNS | 52 | Danny Kent | Tech 3 | | Injured | | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos | No | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 12 | Álex Márquez | KTM | 20 | 39:45.953 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | KTM | 20 | +0.027 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex KTM | 20 | +7.750 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Mahindra | 20 | +15.889 | 18 | 13 |
| 5 | 5 | Romano Fenati | FTR Honda | 20 | +18.323 | 26 | 11 |
| 6 | 8 | Jack Miller | FTR Honda | 20 | +18.432 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 17 | John McPhee | FTR Honda | 20 | +18.439 | 22 | 9 |
| 8 | 31 | Niklas Ajo | KTM | 20 | +25.608 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | FTR Honda | 20 | +25.950 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 41 | Brad Binder | Mahindra | 20 | +32.933 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | Kalex KTM | 20 | +33.067 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 11 | Livio Loi | Kalex KTM | 20 | +33.231 | 25 | 4 |
| 13 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | Kalex KTM | 20 | +33.668 | 32 | 3 |
| 14 | 89 | Alan Techer | TSR Honda | 20 | +39.006 | 27 | 2 |
| 15 | 29 | Hyuga Watanabe | FTR Honda | 20 | +39.259 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 61 | Arthur Sissis | KTM | 20 | +42.159 | 19 | |
| 17 | 77 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | FTR Honda | 20 | +42.670 | 24 | |
| 18 | 22 | Ana Carrasco | KTM | 20 | +46.487 | 35 | |
| 19 | 57 | Eric Granado | Kalex KTM | 20 | +47.005 | 31 | |
| 20 | 4 | Francesco Bagnaia | FTR Honda | 20 | +47.394 | 34 | |
| 21 | 9 | Toni Finsterbusch | Kalex KTM | 20 | +48.496 | 14 | |
| 22 | 58 | Juan Francisco Guevara | TSR Honda | 20 | +51.341 | 33 | |
| 23 | 33 | Sena Yamada | Honda | 20 | +1:00.508 | 10 | |
| 24 | 42 | Álex Rins | KTM | 20 | +1:06.878 | 1 | |
| 25 | 53 | Jasper Iwema | Kalex KTM | 20 | +1:10.254 | 11 | |
| 26 | 80 | Hafiq Azmi | FTR Honda | 20 | +1:13.522 | 28 | |
| Ret | 10 | Alexis Masbou | FTR Honda | 19 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 3 | Matteo Ferrari | FTR Honda | 16 | Retirement | 30 | |
| Ret | 21 | Luca Amato | Mahindra | 14 | Accident | 29 | |
| Ret | 39 | Luis Salom | KTM | 8 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 91 | Hiroki Ono | Honda | 1 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 32 | Isaac Viñales | FTR Honda | 0 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | KTM | 0 | Accident | 13 | |
| Ret | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Mahindra | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 43 | Luca Grünwald | Kalex KTM | 0 | Accident | 23 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||

## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Marc Márquez | 318 |
| 2 | Jorge Lorenzo | 305 |
| 3 | Dani Pedrosa | 280 |
| 4 | Valentino Rossi | 224 |
| 5 | Cal Crutchlow | 188 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 369 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 356 |
| 3 | Ducati | 147 |
| 4 | ART | 94 |
| 5 | FTR Kawasaki | 43 |
Notes:
* Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
* $^1$ All points from the race victory for Marc Márquez were deducted as a result of a decision from Race Direction, after Márquez collided with teammate Dani Pedrosa during the race. Honda's next-best finisher was Álvaro Bautista, who scored a fourth-place finish.