2017 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas

The 2017 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas was the third round of the 2017 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin on April 23, 2017.

  2017 Grand Prix of the Americas

Race details
Race 3 of 18 races in the 2017 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	April 23, 2017
Official name	Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas[1][2][3]
Location	Circuit of the Americas
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.513 km (3.426 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 2:02.741 Fastest lap Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 2:04.899 on lap 15 Podium First Marc Márquez Honda Second Valentino Rossi Yamaha Third Dani Pedrosa Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Franco Morbidelli Kalex Time 2:09.379 Fastest lap Rider Franco Morbidelli Kalex Time 2:09.948 on lap 7 Podium First Franco Morbidelli Kalex Second Thomas Lüthi Kalex Third Takaaki Nakagami Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Arón Canet Honda Time 2:14.644 Fastest lap Rider Arón Canet Honda Time 2:15.583 on lap 2 Podium First Romano Fenati Honda Second Jorge Martín Honda Third Fabio Di Giannantonio Honda

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	43:58.770	1	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	21	+3.069[N 1]	3	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+5.112	4	16
4	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	21	+7.638	9	13
5	5	Johann Zarco	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	21	+7.957	5	11
6	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	21	+14.058	7	10
7	29	Andrea Iannone	Team Suzuki ECSTAR	Suzuki	21	+15.491	11	9
8	9	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	21	+16.772	13	8
9	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati Team	Ducati	21	+17.979	6	7
10	43	Jack Miller	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	21	+18.494	12	6
11	94	Jonas Folger	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	21	+18.903	8	5
12	45	Scott Redding	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	21	+28.735	10	4
13	53	Esteve Rabat	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	21	+30.041	16	3
14	8	Héctor Barberá	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	21	+31.364	15	2
15	19	Álvaro Bautista	Pull & Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	21	+1:06.547	19	1
16	38	Bradley Smith	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	21	+1:22.090	18
17	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	19	+2 laps	22
Ret	22	Sam Lowes	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	11	Accident	20
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	9	Clutch	21
Ret	76	Loris Baz	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	8	Accident	14
Ret	25	Maverick Viñales	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	1	Accident	2
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Pull & Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	1	Accident	17
DNS	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki ECSTAR	Suzuki		Did not start
Sources: [4][5][6]

• Álex Rins suffered a broken forearm in a crash during Saturday practice and withdrew from the event.

Marc Márquez, holding his first place trophy on the podium after winning the MotoGP race.

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	19	41:20.078	1	25
2	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	19	+2.633	5	20
3	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	19	+6.809	4	16
4	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	19	+9.852	3	13
5	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	19	+10.927	6	11
6	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	19	+13.029	7	10
7	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	19	+13.335	17	9
8	23	Marcel Schrötter	Suter	19	+13.754	11	8
9	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	19	+18.079	12	7
10	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	19	+21.418	23	6
11	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	19	+21.430	19	5
12	40	Fabio Quartararo	Kalex	19	+21.736	16	4
13	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	19	+21.974	8	3
14	88	Ricard Cardús	KTM	19	+24.245	10	2
15	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	19	+24.863	13	1
16	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	19	+28.226	15
17	32	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	19	+28.443	22
18	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	19	+34.767	20
19	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	19	+37.279	26
20	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	19	+37.530	28
21	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	19	+38.953	24
22	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	19	+43.720	2
23	11	Sandro Cortese	Suter	19	+51.515	9
24	47	Axel Bassani	Speed Up	19	+1:07.841	30
25	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	19	+1:08.137	27
Ret	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	2	Accident	25
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	0	Accident	14
Ret	68	Yonny Hernández	Kalex	0	Accident	18
Ret	60	Julián Simón	Tech 3	0	Accident	21
Ret	62	Stefano Manzi	Kalex	0	Accident	29
DNS	52	Danny Kent	Suter		Did not start
DNS	27	Iker Lecuona	Kalex		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

• Lecuona pulled out of the race due to pain in the arm he'd broken during pre-season testing. Kent cited a pinched nerve in his back but later quit the team.

Moto3

The race, scheduled to be run for 18 laps, was red-flagged due to Kaito Toba's crash in Turn 14 and was later restarted over 12 laps.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Romano Fenati	Honda	12	27:15.841	3	25
2	88	Jorge Martín	Honda	12	+4.504	5	20
3	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	12	+4.527	6	16
4	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	12	+4.673	7	13
5	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	12	+4.968	4	11
6	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	12	+5.618	13	10
7	17	John McPhee	Honda	12	+5.687	9	9
8	36	Joan Mir	Honda	12	+5.852	2	8
9	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	12	+6.594	15	7
10	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	12	+12.709	11	6
11	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	12	+13.240	14	5
12	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	12	+13.285	19	4
13	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	12	+13.290	21	3
14	23	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM	12	+13.412	8	2
15	11	Livio Loi	Honda	12	+13.491	16	1
16	42	Marcos Ramírez	KTM	12	+23.922	20
17	12	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	12	+24.347	26
18	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	12	+24.650	17
19	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	12	+24.795	25
20	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	12	+25.166	24
21	75	Albert Arenas	Mahindra	12	+26.811	22
22	6	María Herrera	KTM	12	+27.431	24
23	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Peugeot	12	+37.960	23
24	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	12	+41.408	32
25	96	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	12	+43.789	29
26	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Mahindra	12	+44.004	28
27	4	Patrik Pulkkinen	Peugeot	12	+51.071	30
28	18	Gabriel Martínez-Ábrego	KTM	12	+51.438	31
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	9	Out Of Fuel	18
Ret	44	Arón Canet	Honda	3	Accident	1
Ret	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	3	Accident	27
DNS	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	0	Did not start	10
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race

MotoGP

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 56 2 Maverick Viñales 50 3 Marc Márquez 38 4 Andrea Dovizioso 30 5 Cal Crutchlow 29

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 70 2 Honda 54 3 Ducati 43 4 Suzuki 16 5 Aprilia 10

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

Moto2

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Franco Morbidelli	75
2	Thomas Lüthi	56
3	Miguel Oliveira	43
4	Takaaki Nakagami	32
5	Xavi Vierge	25
6	Álex Márquez	24
7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	21
8	Luca Marini	20
9	Simone Corsi	19
10	Dominique Aegerter	18

Moto3

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Joan Mir	58
2	Jorge Martín	52
3	John McPhee	49
4	Romano Fenati	45
5	Andrea Migno	25
6	Fabio Di Giannantonio	24
7	Philipp Öttl	20
8	Arón Canet	18
9	Juan Francisco Guevara	17
10	Livio Loi	15

Notes

1. 0.3 second penalty.

References

1. "2017 Americas MotoGP". 13 June 2017.
2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2017 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Circuit of the Americas - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
4. "2017 Americas MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
5. "motogp.com · RED BULL GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS · MotoGP Race Classification 2017". www.motogp.com.
6. "Classification" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2015.
7. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2017. Retrieved 2019-08-25.