# Grand Prix-wegrace van Japan 2018

De Grand Prix-wegrace van Japan 2018 was de zestiende race van het wereldkampioenschap wegrace-seizoen 2018. De race werd verreden op 21 oktober 2018 op de Twin Ring Motegi nabij Motegi, Japan.
In de MotoGP werd Marc Márquez tot kampioen gekroond door de race te winnen, wat genoeg was om voldoende voorsprong te verkrijgen op zijn laatste rivaal Andrea Dovizioso, die in de voorlaatste ronde uit de wedstrijd crashte.

## Uitslag
### MotoGP

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Constructeur | Rondes | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda | 24 | 42:36.438 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda | 24 | +1.573 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 42 | Álex Rins | Suzuki | 24 | +1.720 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 24 | +6.413 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Ducati | 24 | +6.919 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Yamaha | 24 | +8.024 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Yamaha | 24 | +13.330 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 24 | +15.582 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati | 24 | +20.584 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Yamaha | 24 | +24.985 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Honda | 24 | +25.931 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 38 | Bradley Smith | KTM | 24 | +26.875 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | KTM | 24 | +27.069 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 89 | Katsuyuki Nakasuga | Yamaha | 24 | +32.550 | 20 | 2 |
| 15 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Honda | 24 | +37.718 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 10 | Xavier Siméon | Ducati | 24 | +39.583 | 22 | |
| 17 | 81 | Jordi Torres | Ducati | 24 | +39.839 | 25 | |
| 18 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | 24 | +42.698 | 1 | |
| 19 | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia | 24 | +49.943 | 21 | |
| 20 | 12 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 24 | +52.707 | 23 | |
| 21 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Suzuki | 24 | +1:01.848 | 24 | |
| DNF | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Suzuki | 14 | Ongeluk | 5 | |
| DNF | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ducati | 12 | Uitgevallen | 18 | |
| DNF | 43 | Jack Miller | Ducati | 10 | Ongeluk | 3 | |
| DNF | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia | 6 | Uitgevallen | 19 | |
| DNS | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati | 0 | Blessure | | |

### Moto2

Oorspronkelijke winnaar Fabio Quartararo werd gediskwalificeerd omdat de bandenspanning van zijn motor niet aan de reglementen voldeed.
| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Constructeur | Rondes | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 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 | Xavier Cardelús | Kalex | 22 | +1:07.065 | 31 | |
| DNF | 64 | Bo Bendsneyder | Tech 3 | 21 | Motor | 26 | |
| DNF | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Kalex | 13 | Ongeluk | 15 | |
| DNF | 21 | Federico Fuligni | Kalex | 9 | Uitgevallen | 32 | |
| DNF | 24 | Simone Corsi | Kalex | 3 | Ongeluk | 16 | |
| DSQ | 20 | Fabio Quartararo | Speed Up | 22 | Gediskwalificeerd | 2 | |

### Moto3

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Constructeur | Rondes | Tijd | Grid | Punten |
| 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 ronde | 30 | |
| DNF | 88 | Jorge Martín | Honda | 14 | Ongeluk | 4 | |
| DNF | 75 | Albert Arenas | KTM | 10 | Uitgevallen | 9 | |
| DNF | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 5 | Ongeluk | 15 | |
| DNF | 23 | Niccolò Antonelli | Honda | 1 | Ongeluk | 17 | |
| DNF | 77 | Vicente Pérez | KTM | 1 | Ongeluk | 14 | |
| DNF | 44 | Arón Canet | Honda | 0 | Ongeluk | 19 | |

## Tussenstand na wedstrijd
### MotoGP

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda | 296 |
| 2 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | 194 |
| 3 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 185 |
| 4 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Yamaha | 155 |
| 5 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Ducati | 148 |

### Moto2

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 284 |
| 2 | 44 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM | 247 |
| 3 | 41 | Brad Binder | KTM | 168 |
| 4 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 152 |
| 5 | 73 | Álex Márquez | Kalex | 139 |

### Moto3

| Pos | Nr | Rijder | Team | Punten |
| 1 | 88 | Jorge Martín | Honda | 204 |
| 2 | 12 | Marco Bezzecchi | KTM | 203 |
| 3 | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Honda | 175 |
| 4 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Honda | 142 |
| 5 | 48 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Honda | 131 |
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