# 2018 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2018 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi on 21 October 2018. Marc Márquez clinched his third consecutive MotoGP title after Andrea Dovizioso crashed during the penultimate lap. This is his fifth championship in the premier class and seventh overall.

## Classification
### MotoGP

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | 42:36.438 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda Castrol | Honda | 24 | +1.573 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 42 | Álex Rins | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +1.720 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 24 | +6.413 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 24 | +6.919 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +8.024 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 24 | +13.330 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 24 | +15.582 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 24 | +20.584 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 24 | +24.985 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 24 | +25.931 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 24 | +26.875 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 24 | +27.069 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 89 | Katsuyuki Nakasuga | Yamalube Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 24 | +32.550 | 20 | 2 |
| 15 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | LCR Honda Idemitsu | Honda | 24 | +37.718 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 10 | Xavier Siméon | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 24 | +39.583 | 22 | |
| 17 | 81 | Jordi Torres | Reale Avintia Racing | Ducati | 24 | +39.839 | 25 | |
| 18 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 24 | +42.698 | 1 | |
| 19 | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 24 | +49.943 | 21 | |
| 20 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 24 | +52.707 | 23 | |
| 21 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 24 | +1:01.848 | 24 | |
| Ret | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Team Suzuki Ecstar | Suzuki | 14 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ángel Nieto Team | Ducati | 12 | Accident Damage | 18 | |
| Ret | 43 | Jack Miller | Alma Pramac Racing | Ducati | 10 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 6 | Tyre Pressure | 19 | |
| DNS | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati Team | Ducati | | Did not start | | |
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* Jorge Lorenzo withdrew from the event due to left wrist injury suffered at the Thailand GP.

### Moto2

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 22 | 41:04.294 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 22 | +6.227 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM | 22 | +11.553 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 22 | +12.083 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 22 | +12.348 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 40 | Augusto Fernández | Kalex | 22 | +12.701 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Kalex | 22 | +13.652 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 27 | Iker Lecuona | KTM | 22 | +13.811 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 22 | +15.604 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 23 | Marcel Schrötter | Kalex | 22 | +17.556 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | 36 | Joan Mir | Kalex | 22 | +19.221 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 22 | +19.811 | 8 | 4 |
| 13 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | KTM | 22 | +20.278 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 22 | +23.091 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 87 | Remy Gardner | Tech 3 | 22 | +24.468 | 13 | 1 |
| 16 | 5 | Andrea Locatelli | Kalex | 22 | +24.622 | 20 | |
| 17 | 22 | Sam Lowes | KTM | 22 | +26.288 | 19 | |
| 18 | 16 | Joe Roberts | NTS | 22 | +33.887 | 18 | |
| 19 | 4 | Steven Odendaal | NTS | 22 | +34.074 | 25 | |
| 20 | 2 | Jesko Raffin | Kalex | 22 | +34.303 | 24 | |
| 21 | 66 | Niki Tuuli | Kalex | 22 | +37.458 | 28 | |
| 22 | 89 | Khairul Idham Pawi | Kalex | 22 | +37.921 | 23 | |
| 23 | 57 | Edgar Pons | Speed Up | 22 | +42.570 | 22 | |
| 24 | 62 | Stefano Manzi | Suter | 22 | +46.667 | 27 | |
| 25 | 95 | Jules Danilo | Kalex | 22 | +56.500 | 30 | |
| 26 | 32 | Isaac Viñales | Suter | 22 | +59.659 | 29 | |
| 27 | 18 | Xavi Cardelús | Kalex | 22 | +1:07.065 | 31 | |
| Ret | 64 | Bo Bendsneyder | Tech 3 | 21 | Engine | 26 | |
| Ret | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Kalex | 13 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 21 | Federico Fuligni | Kalex | 9 | Accident Damage | 32 | |
| Ret | 24 | Simone Corsi | Kalex | 3 | Accident | 16 | |
| DSQ | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | Speed Up | 22 | (41:03.849) | 2 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT ||||||||

### Moto3

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 12 | Marco Bezzecchi | KTM | 20 | 39:35.653 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Honda | 20 | +0.041 | 10 | 20 |
| 3 | 40 | Darryn Binder | KTM | 20 | +0.042 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 10 | Dennis Foggia | KTM | 20 | +0.212 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 17 | John McPhee | KTM | 20 | +0.251 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | 14 | Tony Arbolino | Honda | 20 | +0.350 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 20 | +0.404 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 19 | Gabriel Rodrigo | KTM | 20 | +1.561 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | 71 | Ayumu Sasaki | Honda | 20 | +3.137 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 84 | Jakub Kornfeil | KTM | 20 | +7.965 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 5 | Jaume Masiá | KTM | 20 | +8.364 | 21 | 5 |
| 12 | 42 | Marcos Ramírez | KTM | 20 | +8.435 | 11 | 4 |
| 13 | 16 | Andrea Migno | KTM | 20 | +8.561 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 31 | Celestino Vietti | KTM | 20 | +9.041 | 24 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Tatsuki Suzuki | Honda | 20 | +9.237 | 26 | 1 |
| 16 | 65 | Philipp Öttl | KTM | 20 | +9.898 | 22 | |
| 17 | 27 | Kaito Toba | Honda | 20 | +10.897 | 28 | |
| 18 | 72 | Alonso López | Honda | 20 | +15.691 | 20 | |
| 19 | 7 | Adam Norrodin | Honda | 20 | +15.704 | 23 | |
| 20 | 81 | Stefano Nepa | KTM | 20 | +24.185 | 25 | |
| 21 | 41 | Nakarin Atiratphuvapat | Honda | 20 | +24.581 | 27 | |
| 22 | 22 | Kazuki Masaki | KTM | 20 | +41.928 | 8 | |
| 23 | 13 | Shizuka Okazaki | Honda | 20 | +1:48.336 | 29 | |
| 24 | 36 | Yuto Fukushima | Honda | 19 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| Ret | 88 | Jorge Martín | Honda | 14 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 75 | Albert Arenas | KTM | 10 | Accident Damage | 9 | |
| Ret | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 5 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 1 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 77 | Vicente Pérez | KTM | 1 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 44 | Arón Canet | Honda | 0 | Accident | 19 | |
| OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT ||||||||

## Championship standings after the race

* Bold text indicates the World Champions.