# 2011 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2011 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 April 2011 at the Circuito de Jerez located in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. This was Nicky Hayden's final MotoGP podium finish before he switched to World Superbikes in 2016 and his death in 2017.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 27 | 50:49.046 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 27 | +19.339 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | 27 | +29.085 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | 7 | Hiroshi Aoyama | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 27 | +29.551 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Ducati Team | Ducati | 27 | +1:02.227 | 12 | 11 |
| 6 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP | Ducati | 27 | +1:08.440 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Cardion AB Motoracing | Ducati | 27 | +1:14.120 | 16 | 9 |
| 8 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 27 | +1:19.110 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | 24 | Toni Elías | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 27 | +1:42.906 | 17 | 7 |
| 10 | 21 | John Hopkins | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 27 | +1:48.395 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 27 | +1:51.876 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 6 | 4 |
| Ret | 5 | Colin Edwards | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 26 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 11 | Ben Spies | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 24 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 16 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 11 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 27 | Casey Stoner | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 7 | Collision | 1 | |
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## Moto2 classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Suter | 26 | 49:56.423 | 11 | 25 |
| 2 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Suter | 26 | +7.850 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 3 | Simone Corsi | FTR | 26 | +12.625 | 18 | 16 |
| 4 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Tech 3 | 26 | +15.355 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 65 | Stefan Bradl | Kalex | 26 | +17.850 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | 60 | Julián Simón | Suter | 26 | +24.247 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Motobi | 26 | +27.991 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 49 | Kev Coghlan | FTR | 26 | +36.181 | 24 | 8 |
| 9 | 51 | Michele Pirro | Moriwaki | 26 | +36.775 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 76 | Max Neukirchner | MZ-RE Honda | 26 | +41.407 | 36 | 6 |
| 11 | 13 | Anthony West | MZ-RE Honda | 26 | +41.711 | 30 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | FTR | 26 | +41.870 | 31 | 4 |
| 13 | 75 | Mattia Pasini | FTR | 26 | +42.313 | 34 | 3 |
| 14 | 68 | Yonny Hernández | FTR | 26 | +45.384 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 34 | Esteve Rabat | FTR | 26 | +47.193 | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 54 | Kenan Sofuoğlu | Suter | 26 | +47.204 | 12 | |
| 17 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Suter | 26 | +47.316 | 14 | |
| 18 | 21 | Javier Forés | Suter | 26 | +50.677 | 26 | |
| 19 | 19 | Xavier Siméon | Tech 3 | 26 | +57.958 | 32 | |
| 20 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | FTR | 26 | +58.554 | 27 | |
| 21 | 71 | Claudio Corti | Suter | 26 | +1:07.467 | 9 | |
| 22 | 88 | Ricard Cardús | Moriwaki | 26 | +1:10.925 | 19 | |
| 23 | 45 | Scott Redding | Suter | 26 | +1:16.149 | 13 | |
| 24 | 40 | Aleix Espargaró | Pons Kalex | 26 | +1:19.512 | 8 | |
| 25 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Moriwaki | 26 | +1:22.459 | 33 | |
| 26 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Tech 3 | 26 | +1:26.753 | 29 | |
| 27 | 4 | Randy Krummenacher | Kalex | 26 | +1:37.226 | 28 | |
| 28 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 26 | +1:42.838 | 15 | |
| 29 | 9 | Kenny Noyes | FTR | 26 | +1:54.532 | 25 | |
| 30 | 53 | Valentin Debise | FTR | 26 | +1:57.120 | 17 | |
| 31 | 64 | Santiago Hernández | FTR | 25 | +1 lap | 37 | |
| 32 | 97 | Steven Odendaal | Suter | 25 | +1 lap | 38 | |
| 33 | 95 | Mashel Al Naimi | Moriwaki | 23 | +3 laps | 39 | |
| Ret | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Suter | 12 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 93 | Marc Márquez | Suter | 10 | Collision | 4 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Suter | 10 | Collision | 16 | |
| Ret | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Moriwaki | 9 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 39 | Robertino Pietri | Suter | 4 | Accident | 35 | |
| Ret | 99 | Łukasz Wargala | Moriwaki | 1 | Accident | 40 | |
| Ret | 80 | Axel Pons | Pons Kalex | 0 | Retirement | 20 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Aprilia | 23 | 44:50.646 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Aprilia | 23 | +17.446 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Derbi | 23 | +23.955 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 52 | Danny Kent | Aprilia | 23 | +32.883 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 17 | Taylor Mackenzie | Aprilia | 23 | +34.713 | 16 | 11 |
| 6 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Aprilia | 23 | +51.515 | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | Aprilia | 23 | +54.920 | 17 | 9 |
| 8 | 76 | Hiroki Ono | KTM | 23 | +1:00.164 | 21 | 8 |
| 9 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Derbi | 23 | +1:00.286 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 63 | Zulfahmi Khairuddin | Derbi | 23 | +1:00.399 | 18 | 6 |
| 11 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 23 | +1:00.760 | 3 | 5 |
| 12 | 26 | Adrián Martín | Aprilia | 23 | +1:07.739 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 77 | Marcel Schrötter | Mahindra | 23 | +1:19.710 | 23 | 3 |
| 14 | 96 | Louis Rossi | Aprilia | 23 | +1:21.812 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 28 | Josep Rodríguez | Aprilia | 23 | +1:23.118 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 23 | Alberto Moncayo | Aprilia | 23 | +1:24.040 | 10 | |
| 17 | 15 | Simone Grotzkyj | Aprilia | 23 | +1:30.610 | 22 | |
| 18 | 21 | Harry Stafford | Aprilia | 23 | +1:30.952 | 27 | |
| 19 | 19 | Alessandro Tonucci | Aprilia | 23 | +1:55.354 | 26 | |
| 20 | 3 | Luigi Morciano | Aprilia | 22 | +1 lap | 25 | |
| 21 | 34 | Daniel Ruiz | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| 22 | 12 | Daniel Kartheininger | KTM | 22 | +1 lap | 29 | |
| 23 | 36 | Joan Perelló | Aprilia | 22 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| 24 | 86 | Kevin Hanus | Honda | 21 | +2 laps | 32 | |
| Ret | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Aprilia | 15 | Retirement | 12 | |
| Ret | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 15 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 53 | Jasper Iwema | Aprilia | 15 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 43 | Francesco Mauriello | Aprilia | 13 | Accident | 33 | |
| Ret | 99 | Danny Webb | Mahindra | 10 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 39 | Luis Salom | Aprilia | 9 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 30 | Giulian Pedone | Aprilia | 8 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 31 | Niklas Ajo | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 24 | |
| DNQ | 69 | Sarath Kumar | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |
| OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT ||||||||

## 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 | Jorge Lorenzo | 45 |
| 2 | Dani Pedrosa | 36 |
| 3 | Casey Stoner | 25 |
| 4 | Nicky Hayden | 23 |
| 5 | Andrea Dovizioso | 20 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 45 |
| 2 | Honda | 45 |
| 3 | Ducati | 25 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 6 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.