# Grand Prix-wegrace van Japan 2009

De Grand Prix-wegrace van Japan 2009 was de tweede race van het wereldkampioenschap wegrace-seizoen 2009. De race werd verreden op 26 april 2009 op de Twin Ring Motegi nabij Motegi, Japan. Het was de 700e race in de historie van de hoogste klasse van het wereldkampioenschap.
Alle kwalificatiesessies voor de MotoGP, de 250 cc en de 125 cc werden afgelast vanwege de slechte weersvoorspellingen. De grids van alle races werden samengesteld uit de tijden die in de vrije trainingen gereden werden.

## Uitslag
### MotoGP

| Pos | No | Rijder | Constructeur | Ronden | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 1 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 24 | 43:47.238 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 24 | +1.304 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 3 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 24 | +3.763 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Ducati | 24 | +5.691 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 24 | +9.207 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Kawasaki | 24 | +30.555 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Suzuki | 24 | +32.756 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 36 | Mika Kallio | Ducati | 24 | +39.416 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 52 | James Toseland | Yamaha | 24 | +43.106 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Chris Vermeulen | Suzuki | 24 | +43.245 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Honda | 24 | +44.834 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Yamaha | 24 | +46.540 | 5 | 4 |
| 13 | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Honda | 24 | +53.525 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 88 | Niccolò Canepa | Ducati | 24 | +1:21.804 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 23 | +1 Lap | 9 | 1 |
| DNF | 59 | Sete Gibernau | Ducati | 17 | Uitgevallen | 14 | |
| DNF | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati | 0 | Ongeluk | 12 | |
| DNF | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 0 | Ongeluk | 13 | |

### 250 cc

| Pos | No | Rijder | Constructeur | Ronden | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 1 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 23 | 44:06.488 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 23 | +5.889 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 23 | +21.832 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Aprilia | 23 | +25.906 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 23 | +30.785 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 73 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 23 | +33.788 | 17 | 10 |
| 7 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Aprilia | 23 | +36.972 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Aprilia | 23 | +41.018 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 23 | +41.649 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 48 | Shoya Tomizawa | Honda | 23 | +52.863 | 25 | 6 |
| 11 | 40 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 23 | +1:00.888 | 5 | 5 |
| 12 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Honda | 23 | +1:06.347 | 6 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 23 | +1:53.149 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 59 | Kazuki Watanabe | Yamaha | 22 | +1 ronde | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 56 | Vladimir Leonov | Aprilia | 22 | +1 ronde | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 8 | Bastien Chesaux | Honda | 22 | +1 ronde | 23 | |
| 17 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 22 | +1 ronde | 1 | |
| 18 | 77 | Aitor Rodríguez | Aprilia | 22 | +1 ronde | 24 | |
| DNF | 14 | Ratthapark Wilairot | Honda | 18 | Ongeluk | 12 | |
| DNF | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 17 | Ongeluk | 18 | |
| DNF | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Honda | 6 | Ongeluk | 15 | |
| DNF | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Aprilia | 5 | Ongeluk | 8 | |
| DNF | 7 | Axel Pons | Aprilia | 3 | Ongeluk | 21 | |
| DNF | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 2 | Ongeluk | 14 | |
| DNF | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Gilera | 2 | Ongeluk | 9 | |

### 125 cc

| Pos | No | Rijder | Constructeur | Ronden | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 1 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 20 | 42:23.716 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 60 | Julián Simón | Aprilia | 20 | +1.346 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Derbi | 20 | +5.039 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 17 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia | 20 | +6.904 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 93 | Marc Márquez | KTM | 20 | +13.061 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Derbi | 20 | +14.841 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Derbi | 20 | +16.420 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Aprilia | 20 | +16.483 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Derbi | 20 | +27.500 | 6 | 7 |
| 10 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Aprilia | 20 | +30.359 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | 99 | Danny Webb | Aprilia | 20 | +37.547 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Loncin | 20 | +43.856 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 12 | Esteve Rabat | Aprilia | 20 | +59.889 | 4 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 20 | +1:00.141 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Aprilia | 20 | +1:02.601 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | Cameron Beaubier | KTM | 20 | +1:02.609 | 23 | |
| 17 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Aprilia | 20 | +1:09.867 | 5 | |
| 18 | 35 | Randy Krummenacher | Aprilia | 20 | +1:09.883 | 22 | |
| 19 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 20 | +1:15.049 | 12 | |
| 20 | 73 | Takaaki Nakagami | Aprilia | 20 | +1:19.858 | 21 | |
| 21 | 5 | Alexis Masbou | Loncin | 20 | +1:43.413 | 25 | |
| 22 | 7 | Efrén Vázquez | Derbi | 20 | +1:52.910 | 20 | |
| 23 | 69 | Lukáš Šembera | Aprilia | 20 | +2:07.124 | 33 | |
| 24 | 58 | Yuuichi Yanagisawa | Honda | 20 | +2:07.402 | 26 | |
| 25 | 87 | Luca Marconi | Aprilia | 19 | +1 ronde | 30 | |
| 26 | 10 | Luca Vitali | Aprilia | 19 | +1 ronde | 35 | |
| 27 | 55 | Hiroomi Iwata | Honda | 19 | +1 ronde | 29 | |
| 28 | 59 | Satoru Kamada | Honda | 19 | +1 ronde | 28 | |
| 29 | 57 | Yuki Oogane | Honda | 18 | +2 ronden | 34 | |
| Ret | 56 | Yuma Yahagi | Honda | 11 | Uitgevallen | 27 | |
| Ret | 14 | Johann Zarco | Aprilia | 10 | Uitgevallen | 18 | |
| Ret | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia | 6 | Uitgevallen | 16 | |
| Ret | 32 | Lorenzo Savadori | Aprilia | 2 | Ongeluk | 24 | |
| Ret | 53 | Jasper Iwema | Honda | 0 | Ongeluk | 31 | |
| DNS | 88 | Michael Ranseder | Haojue | 0 | Technisch probleem | 32 | |
| DNQ | 66 | Matthew Hoyle | Haojue | 0 | Niet gekwalificeerd | | |

## Tussenstand na wedstrijd
### MotoGP

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 41 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 40 |
| 3 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Ducati | 38 |
| 4 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 22 |
| 5 | 3 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 21 |

### 250 cc

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 34 |
| 2 | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 33 |
| 3 | 40 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 30 |
| 4 | 6 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 20 |
| 5 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Aprilia | 19 |

### 125 cc

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 37.5 |
| 2 | 60 | Julián Simón | Aprilia | 30 |
| 3 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Derbi | 22.5 |
| 4 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Derbi | 18 |
| 5 | 17 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia | 17 |
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