2016 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix explained

Grand Prix:	Austrian
Flag:	Austria
Official Name:	NeroGiardini Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich^[1] ^[2] ^[3]
Location:	Red Bull Ring
Course Mi:	2.683
Course Km:	4.318
Race No:	10
Season No:	18
Date:	14 August
Year:	2016
Pole Rider Motogp:	Andrea Iannone
Pole Rider Motogp Country:	Italy
Pole Rider Motogp Bike:	Ducati
Pole Time Motogp:	1:23.142
Fast Rider Motogp:	Andrea Iannone
Fast Rider Motogp Country:	Italy
Fast Rider Motogp Bike:	Ducati
Fast Time Motogp:	1:24.561 on lap 24
First Rider Motogp:	Andrea Iannone
First Rider Motogp Country:	Italy
First Rider Motogp Bike:	Ducati
Second Rider Motogp:	Andrea Dovizioso
Second Rider Motogp Country:	Italy
Second Rider Motogp Bike:	Ducati
Third Rider Motogp:	Jorge Lorenzo
Third Rider Motogp Country:	Spain
Third Rider Motogp Bike:	Yamaha
Pole Rider Moto2:	Johann Zarco
Pole Rider Moto2 Country:	France
Pole Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Pole Time Moto2:	1:29.255
Fast Rider Moto2:	Johann Zarco
Fast Rider Moto2 Country:	France
Fast Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Fast Time Moto2:	1:29.497 on lap 8
First Rider Moto2:	Johann Zarco
First Rider Moto2 Country:	France
First Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Second Rider Moto2:	Franco Morbidelli
Second Rider Moto2 Country:	Italy
Second Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Third Rider Moto2:	Álex Rins
Third Rider Moto2 Country:	Spain
Third Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Pole Rider Moto3:	Joan Mir
Pole Rider Moto3 Country:	Spain
Pole Rider Moto3 Bike:	KTM
Pole Time Moto3:	1:36.228
Fast Rider Moto3:	Philipp Öttl
Fast Rider Moto3 Country:	Germany
Fast Rider Moto3 Bike:	KTM
Fast Time Moto3:	1:36.557 on lap 15
First Rider Moto3:	Joan Mir
First Rider Moto3 Country:	Spain
First Rider Moto3 Bike:	KTM
Second Rider Moto3:	Brad Binder
Second Rider Moto3 Country:	South Africa
Second Rider Moto3 Bike:	KTM
Third Rider Moto3:	Enea Bastianini
Third Rider Moto3 Country:	Italy
Third Rider Moto3 Bike:	Honda

The 2016 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on 14 August 2016.

MotoGP race report

Andrea Iannone took his first victory in MotoGP and the first since Moto2 Italy 2012 and also was the first Ducati rider other than Casey Stoner to win a race since Loris Capirossi's win at the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix. This race marked Ducati's first 1-2 finish since the 2007 Australian Grand Prix and also the first win for a manufacturer other than Honda or Yamaha since the 2010 Australian Grand Prix.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	39:46.255	1	25
2	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+0.938	3	20
3	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	28	+3.389	4	16
4	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	28	+3.815	2	13
5	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+11.813	5	11
6	25	Maverick Viñales	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	28	+14.341	6	10
7	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+17.063	12	9
8	45	Scott Redding	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	Ducati	28	+29.437	8	8
9	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+29.785	14	7
10	44	Pol Espargaró	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+37.094	15	6
11	9	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	Ducati	28	+39.765	13	5
12	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+39.766	17	4
13	76	Loris Baz	Avintia Racing	Ducati	28	+44.284	21	3
14	53	Tito Rabat	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	28	+45.004	18	2
15	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	28	+1:03.246	7	1
16	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	28	+1:12.448	19
17	68	Yonny Hernández	Pull & Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	28	+1:14.517	16
18	50	Eugene Laverty	Pull & Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	28	+1:36.510	11
19	6	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	27	+1 lap	20
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	24	Hand Discomfort	9
DSQ	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Racing	Ducati	12	Black flag	10
DNS	43	Jack Miller	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda		Did not start
Sources: ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

Hector Barbera was black flagged for ignoring the jump start ride-through penalty.
Jack Miller crashed during Sunday morning warm-up and suffered a broken right wrist & fractured vertebra.

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	25	37:34.180	1	25
2	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	25	+3.058	2	20
3	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	25	+3.376	9	16
4	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	25	+3.467	3	13
5	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	25	+4.740	4	11
6	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	25	+9.416	5	10
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	25	+10.178	8	9
8	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	25	+11.951	12	8
9	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	25	+12.801	6	7
10	77	Dominique Aegerter	Kalex	25	+13.977	11	6
11	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	25	+18.046	13	5
12	52	Danny Kent	Kalex	25	+18.284	15	4
13	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	25	+18.424	17	3
14	44	Miguel Oliveira	Kalex	25	+18.830	18	2
15	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	25	+20.022	20	1
16	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	25	+28.885	27
17	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	25	+28.970	19
18	32	Isaac Viñales	Tech 3	25	+29.032	25
19	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	25	+29.115	23
20	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	25	+29.424	14
21	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	25	+29.977	16
22	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Kalex	25	+37.935	21
23	19	Xavier Siméon	Speed Up	25	+43.276	24
24	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	25	+44.206	26
25	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	25	+48.835	28
26	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	25	+1:12.148	10
Ret	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	12	Accident Damage	22
Ret	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	9	Accident	7
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Joan Mir	KTM	23	37:23.325	1	25
2	41	Brad Binder	KTM	23	+0.279	2	20
3	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	23	+0.431	3	16
4	20	Fabio Quartararo	KTM	23	+0.439	5	13
5	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	23	+0.600	8	11
6	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	23	+4.134	13	10
7	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	23	+4.161	10	9
8	4	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	23	+4.970	9	8
9	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	23	+4.972	7	7
10	11	Livio Loi	Honda	23	+5.262	21	6
11	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	23	+5.415	6	5
12	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	23	+5.871	14	4
13	55	Andrea Locatelli	KTM	23	+5.905	15	3
14	6	María Herrera	KTM	23	+12.775	30	2
15	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	23	+12.839	24	1
16	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	23	+12.942	11
17	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	23	+14.090	16
18	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	23	+14.406	12
19	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Honda	23	+14.517	23
20	62	Stefano Manzi	Mahindra	23	+14.545	22
21	44	Arón Canet	Honda	23	+14.663	4
22	12	Albert Arenas	Peugeot	23	+17.132	26
23	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	23	+17.443	25
24	17	John McPhee	Peugeot	23	+28.306	28
25	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	23	+28.405	20
26	42	Marcos Ramírez	Mahindra	23	+40.213	31
27	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	23	+40.361	27
28	43	Stefano Valtulini	Mahindra	23	+1:04.040	29
29	3	Fabio Spiranelli	Mahindra	23	+1:04.058	33
30	77	Lorenzo Petrarca	Mahindra	23	+1:04.513	34
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	18	Accident	17
Ret	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	14	Accident	18
Ret	53	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	5	Accident	19
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	5	Accident	32
DNS	5	Romano Fenati	KTM		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Romano Fenati was suspended by his VR46 team following disciplinary issues.

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round ten has concluded.^[7]

Riders' Championship standings

	Rider	Points
1	Marc Marquez	181
2	Jorge Lorenzo	138
3	Valentino Rossi	124
4	Dani Pedrosa	105
5	Maverick Vinales	93

Constructors' Championship standings

	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	202
2	Honda	196
3	Ducati	149
4	Suzuki	99
5	Aprilia	51

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes and References

Web site: 2016 Austrian MotoGP. 13 June 2017. Motorpsortsmagazine.com. 31 May 2018.
Web site: 2016 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project. Malcolm. Mitchell. Progcovers.com. 6 November 2018.
Web site: Red Bull Ring - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project. Malcolm. Mitchell. Progcovers.com. 31 May 2018.
Web site: 2016 Austrian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database. 13 June 2017. Motorsportmagazine.com. 5 November 2018.
Web site: NEROGIARDINI MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX VON ÖSTERREICH · MotoGP Race Classification 2016. Motogp.com. 5 November 2018.
Web site: NEROGIARDINI MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX VON ÖSTERREICH · MotoGP Race Classification 2016. PDF. Resources.motogp.com. 5 November 2018.
Web site: Standings . 2016. resources.motogp.com . PDF. 2019-08-27.