2015 French motorcycle Grand Prix

  2015 French Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 18 races in the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	17 May 2015
Official name	Monster Energy Grand Prix de France[1][2][3]
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.185 km (2.600 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:32.246 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Yamaha Time 1:32.879 on lap 4 Podium First Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Second Valentino Rossi Yamaha Third Andrea Dovizioso Ducati
Moto2
Pole position Rider Álex Rins Kalex Time 1:37.114 Fastest lap Rider Thomas Lüthi Kalex Time 1:37.281 on lap 6 Podium First Thomas Lüthi Kalex Second Tito Rabat Kalex Third Johann Zarco Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Fabio Quartararo Honda Time 1:44.763 Fastest lap Rider Enea Bastianini Honda Time 1:42.525 on lap 3 Podium First Romano Fenati KTM Second Enea Bastianini Honda Third Francesco Bagnaia Mahindra

The 2015 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.^[4] It was held at the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans on 17 May 2015.

In the premier class, Marc Márquez took his third pole position of the season. However, it was Jorge Lorenzo who won his second consecutive race ahead of his teammate Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso completed the podium in third place.^[5] Fourth place was battled between Márquez, Andrea Iannone, and Bradley Smith, with Márquez eventually prevailing ahead of Iannone.^[6] Both Team LCR riders failed to finish the race; Cal Crutchlow crashed out at Turn 6 and Jack Miller crashed at the Dunlop chicane. Dani Pedrosa also crashed at the Dunlop chicane but remounted to finish in sixteenth.

In Moto3 Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia took his first ever podium, finishing the race in third place behind Romano Fenati and Enea Bastianini.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	28	43:44.143	3	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	28	+3.820	7	20
3	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+12.380	2	16
4	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+19.890	1	13
5	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+20.237	5	11
6	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+21.145	6	10
7	44	Pol Espargaró	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+35.493	12	9
8	68	Yonny Hernández	Pramac Racing	Ducati	28	+39.601	11	8
9	25	Maverick Viñales	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	28	+41.571	13	7
10	9	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Racing	Ducati	28	+42.789	9	6
11	69	Nicky Hayden	Aspar MotoGP Team	Honda	28	+53.636	14	5
12	76	Loris Baz	Athinà Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	28	+1:00.617	22	4
13	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Racing	Ducati	28	+1:04.272	19	3
14	50	Eugene Laverty	Aspar MotoGP Team	Honda	28	+1:05.259	21	2
15	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	28	+1:05.515	23	1
16	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+1:20.907	8
17	15	Alex de Angelis	Octo IodaRacing Team	ART	28	+1:21.663	24
18	33	Marco Melandri	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	27	+1 lap	25
Ret	43	Jack Miller	CWM LCR Honda	Honda	14	Accident	18
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	AB Motoracing	Honda	14	Retirement	20
Ret	35	Cal Crutchlow	CWM LCR Honda	Honda	7	Accident	4
Ret	45	Scott Redding	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	3	Accident	15
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Ducati	3	Retirement	17
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	2	Retirement	10
Ret	6	Stefan Bradl	Athinà Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	1	Accident	16
Sources:[7][8][9]

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	26	42:27.011	6	25
2	1	Tito Rabat	Kalex	26	+1.767	4	20
3	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	26	+3.760	3	16
4	22	Sam Lowes	Speed Up	26	+4.076	2	13
5	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	26	+14.492	12	11
6	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	26	+14.681	9	10
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	26	+14.845	5	9
8	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	26	+15.135	8	8
9	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	26	+19.243	13	7
10	77	Dominique Aegerter	Kalex	26	+19.531	19	6
11	95	Anthony West	Speed Up	26	+29.478	17	5
12	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	26	+29.646	10	4
13	23	Marcel Schrötter	Tech 3	26	+30.220	14	3
14	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	26	+30.691	18	2
15	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	26	+33.097	16	1
16	88	Ricard Cardús	Tech 3	26	+33.604	25
17	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	26	+38.293	1
18	3	Simone Corsi	Kalex	26	+39.001	20
19	25	Azlan Shah	Kalex	26	+43.459	24
20	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	26	+57.742	26
21	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	26	+1:09.399	22
22	10	Thitipong Warokorn	Kalex	26	+1:17.247	25
23	66	Florian Alt	Suter	26	+1:17.646	28
24	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	26	+1:17.837	29
25	51	Zaqhwan Zaidi	Suter	26	+1:33.192	30
26	20	Louis Bulle	TransFIORmers	25	+1 lap	31
Ret	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	24	Accident	7
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	12	Accident	11
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	9	Accident	15
Ret	96	Louis Rossi	Tech 3	4	Accident	23
Ret	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	4	Accident	21
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	24	41:22.829	5	25
2	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	24	+0.122	18	20
3	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	24	+0.457	3	16
4	52	Danny Kent	Honda	24	+0.693	31	13
5	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	24	+2.244	7	11
6	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	24	+2.421	4	10
7	32	Isaac Viñales	Husqvarna	24	+2.587	9	9
8	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	24	+4.065	8	8
9	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	24	+14.876	16	7
10	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	24	+22.588	33	6
11	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	24	+23.247	32	5
12	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	Mahindra	24	+26.231	15	4
13	11	Livio Loi	Honda	24	+26.470	22	3
14	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	24	+26.677	30	2
15	29	Stefano Manzi	Mahindra	24	+26.841	14	1
16	55	Andrea Locatelli	Honda	24	+28.484	13
17	17	John McPhee	Honda	24	+33.193	19
18	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	24	+38.979	28
19	6	María Herrera	Husqvarna	24	+39.450	11
20	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	24	+58.182	24
Ret	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	23	Accident	34
Ret	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	21	Accident	26
Ret	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	21	Accident	20
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	19	Retirement	10
Ret	20	Fabio Quartararo	Honda	17	Accident	1
Ret	12	Matteo Ferrari	Mahindra	11	Accident	12
Ret	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	10	Accident	6
Ret	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	9	Accident	27
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	5	Accident	2
Ret	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	2	Retirement	21
Ret	2	Remy Gardner	Mahindra	0	Retirement	17
Ret	41	Brad Binder	KTM	0	Accident	25
Ret	91	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	0	Accident	23
Ret	7	Efrén Vázquez	Honda	0	Accident	29
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top six riders and constructors after round five has concluded.^[10]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Valentino Rossi 102 2 Jorge Lorenzo 87 3 Andrea Dovizioso 83 4 Marc Márquez 69 5 Andrea Iannone 61 6 Cal Crutchlow 47

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 116 2 Ducati 86 3 Honda 85 4 Suzuki 38 5 Yamaha Forward 6 6 Aprilia 3

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 189 2 Ducati Team 144 3 Repsol Honda Team 84 4 Monster Yamaha Tech 3 81 5 Team Suzuki Ecstar 58 6 CWM LCR Honda 53

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

References

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