2013 Brno MotoGP | Czech Republic Grand Prix Results

2013 Brno MotoGP Results

Spoiler Alert: 2013 MotoGP Championship results from Brno in Czechoslovakia listed below

The 2013 MotoGP Championship headed this weekend to the sweeping Brno circuit in Czechoslovakia. The 3.357-mile circuit, which was built in 1987, contains 14 turns and multiple elevation changes, providing tough conditions on the spec Bridgestone Tires.

But after 22 laps, three Spanish riders once again mastered another round in 2013 – Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez and teammate Dani Pedrosa, and Yamaha Factory Racing's Jorge Lorenzo.

Marquez was victorious at a race constantly threatened with rain, taking his fourth straight win and fifth of the season. He also broke another record for first rookie to ever claim five victories in his maiden season. He was joined on the Brno MotoGP podium by Pedrosa and the reigning MotoGP Champion Lorenzo.

Starting from fifth on the grid, Lorenzo got to turn one first ahead of Marquez, Pedrosa, and the pole man, Monster Tech 3 Yamaha's Cal Crutchlow.

Lorenzo began to gap the field, opening up over a second lead on Marquez and Pedrosa, who were stalked closely by Crutchlow and the man who started from second on the grid, GO&FUN Honda Gresini's Alvaro Bautista.

But with 19 to go, the 20-year-old Marquez had the gap down to under a second as Bautista took fourth from Crutchlow. Marquez once again displayed huge amounts on patience, and by lap 8, was involved in an intense battle with Lorenzo.

The two swapped the lead numerous times, but Marquez wouldn't make the pass stick until four laps remained. This is when Marquez passed Lorenzo on the turn 3, and held the lead to take his fifth win of 2013 MotoGP.

Pedrosa also passed Lorenzo a lap later, and began chasing down Marquez. But Pedrosa would finish 0.313 of a second behind. Lorenzo finished 2.277 seconds behind Marquez.

While running in fifth, Crutchlow crashed with 15 to go, just as his teammate Bradley Smith did on lap 3. Crutchlow had just set his personal best lap at Brno before crashing. He was able to rejoin, eventually finishing 17th,

With Crutchlow out, this left a battle for fourth between Bautista and Yamaha Factory Team's Valentino Rossi. But the nine-time World Champion, who took his first World Championship victory at Brno back in 1996, was able to finish fourth, 10.101 seconds behind Marquez, and only 0.077 of a second ahead of Bautista.

Finishing alone in sixth was LCR Honda's Stefan Bradl, who was over 19 seconds off the top rider. Next up was the Ducati duo of Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden, both riders over 35 seconds behind the lead group.

Rounding out the top 10 were Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Ducati's Andrea Iannone and the top CRT bike, Power Electronics Aspar's Aleix Espargaro, respectively. The American Colin Edwards finished 11th on the NGM Mobile Forward Racing FTR Kawasaki, followed by Ben Spies replacement on the Ignite Pramac Racing Ducati, Michele Pirro, a Ducati Team test rider.

Spies recently underwent shoulder surgery after sustaining further damage during a practice crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Besides Smith, the other riders to DNF were Avintia Blusens’ Hector Barbera and NGM Mobile Forward Racing’s Claudio Corti after the two contacted each other on the second lap. Corti underwent an x-ray to his right hand, though nothing was reported broken. Home rider Came IodaRacing Project’s Lukas Pesek also crashed out on the third lap.

The MotoGP grid will travel directly to the UK for the Hertz British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the final of three back-to-back races.

Heading into Silverstone, Marquez has 213 points, 26 (equivalent to a race) ahead of Pedrosa, and 44 ahead of Lorenzo.

2013 Brno MotoGP Results:

Pos.	Points	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time/Gap
1	25	93	Marc MARQUEZ	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	166.4	42'50.729
2	20	26	Dani PEDROSA	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	166.4	+0.313
3	16	99	Jorge LORENZO	SPA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	166.3	+2.277
4	13	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	165.8	+10.101
5	11	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	SPA	GO&FUN Honda Gresini	Honda	165.8	+10.178
6	10	6	Stefan BRADL	GER	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	165.1	+19.807
7	9	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	164.2	+35.015
8	8	69	Nicky HAYDEN	USA	Ducati Team	Ducati	164.1	+35.354
9	7	29	Andrea IANNONE	ITA	Energy T.I. Pramac Racing	Ducati	163.2	+51.149
10	6	41	Aleix ESPARGARO	SPA	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	162.8	+56.392
11	5	5	Colin EDWARDS	USA	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	162.8	+57.420
12	4	51	Michele PIRRO	ITA	Ignite Pramac Racing	Ducati	162.3	+1'05.430
13	3	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	ITA	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	161.9	+1'12.364
14	2	7	Hiroshi AOYAMA	JPN	Avintia Blusens	FTR	161.8	+1'13.500
15	1	14	Randy DE PUNIET	FRA	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	161.7	+1'14.128
16		68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	COL	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	161.7	+1'14.991
17		35	Cal CRUTCHLOW	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	161.3	+1'20.640
18		70	Michael LAVERTY	GBR	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	160.5	+1'34.462
19		17	Karel ABRAHAM	CZE	Cardion AB Motoracing	ART	159.6	+1'49.713
20		67	Bryan STARING	AUS	GO&FUN Honda Gresini	FTR Honda	159.6	+1'50.024
21		45	Martin BAUER	AUT	Remus Racing Team	S&B Suter	152.5	1 Lap
Not Classified
		38	Bradley SMITH	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	161.4	20 Laps
		52	Lukas PESEK	CZE	Came IodaRacing Project	Ioda-Suter	156.0	20 Laps
		71	Claudio CORTI	ITA	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	FTR Kawasaki	152.4	21 Laps
		8	Hector BARBERA	SPA	Avintia Blusens	FTR	152.2	21 Laps

2013 MotoGP Point Standings (after 11 of 18 rounds):

Pos.	Rider	Bike	Nation	Points
1	Marc MARQUEZ	Honda	SPA	213
2	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	SPA	187
3	Jorge LORENZO	Yamaha	SPA	169
4	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	ITA	143
5	Cal CRUTCHLOW	Yamaha	GBR	127
6	Stefan BRADL	Honda	GER	103
7	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	Ducati	ITA	96
8	Alvaro BAUTISTA	Honda	SPA	92
9	Nicky HAYDEN	Ducati	USA	80
10	Aleix ESPARGARO	ART	SPA	62
11	Bradley SMITH	Yamaha	GBR	59
12	Michele PIRRO	Ducati	ITA	40
13	Andrea IANNONE	Ducati	ITA	36
14	Colin EDWARDS	FTR Kawasaki	USA	25
15	Hector BARBERA	FTR	SPA	24
16	Danilo PETRUCCI	Ioda-Suter	ITA	21
17	Randy DE PUNIET	ART	FRA	20
18	Ben SPIES	Ducati	USA	9
19	Claudio CORTI	FTR Kawasaki	ITA	7
20	Yonny HERNANDEZ	ART	COL	7
21	Alex DE ANGELIS	Ducati	RSM	5
22	Karel ABRAHAM	ART	CZE	5
23	Hiroshi AOYAMA	FTR	JPN	4
24	Michael LAVERTY	PBM	GBR	3
25	Bryan STARING	FTR Honda	AUS	2
26	Javier DEL AMOR	FTR	SPA	1