Marc Márquez has win in the Comunitat Valencia Circuit his 13 win of this season, setting a new record of 13 victories in one season in the premier class. Valentino Rossi finishes on second place, taking the runner-up position. Pedrosa completes the podium.

With 101 thousand persons in València, the beginning of the race with dry conditions helps Iannone to take the first place in the start followed by Rossi, Márquez, Pedrosa and Lorenzo; who needed to comeback to fight for the runner-up place with Valentino Rossi. The rain became in the circuit besides no rider change his bike, Lorenzo lost his confidence and lost some positions with the Ducati riders.

The Ducati’s had surprise everyone on lap 4 fighting with Pedrosa for 4th place but suddenly the Catalan rider overtook them and Lorenzo did the same when the rain had stop.

Márquez got bored in the third place and suddenly overtakes Rossi and Iannone, and makes a rapid gap between the Italian riders. Pedrosa also overtook Iannone but he wasn’t able to do the same with Rossi.

Iannone did an important mistake after been overtook by Lorenzo for 4th, and He went off at turn 8 dropping to seventh place. But on lap 11 he and Lorenzo came in to change his bike because of rain. This didn’t help any of them who had lost 6 seconds per lap, with Lorenzo entering the pits again to retire with 5 laps to go.

Finally Márquez took his 13th win of the season, scoring a new record, being the driver who takes more victories in a season of MotoGP class. Rossi achieves his runner-up place thanks to the podium, next to Pedrosa who finishes on a good place after a rollercoaster season.

Results:

Pos. Nº Driver Team Motorbike Gap Diff
1 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 30 Laps
2 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha + 3,516 + 3,516
3 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda + 14,040 + 10,524
4 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati + 16,705 + 2,665
5 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Ducati Team Ducati + 16,773 + 0,068
6 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha + 37,884 + 21,111
7 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA NGM Forward Racing Forward Yamaha + 38,168 + 0,284
8 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda + 41,803 + 3,635
9 51 Michele PIRRO ITA Ducati Team Ducati + 45,710 + 3,907
10 45 Scott REDDING GBR GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda + 51,191 + 5,481
11 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Avintia Racing Avintia + 56,512 + 5,321
12 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Octo IodaRacing Team ART + 57,000 + 0,488
13 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Drive M7 Aspar Honda + 57,262 + 0,262
14 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha + 57,517 + 0,255
15 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Drive M7 Aspar Honda + 58,775 + 1,258
16 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda + 58,864 + 0,089
17 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Honda + 1:02,389 + 3,525
18 15 Alex DE ANGELIS RSM NGM Forward Racing Forward Yamaha + 1:15,795 + 13,406
19 70 Michael LAVERTY GBR Paul Bird Motorsport PBM + 1:26,309 + 10,514
20 23 Broc PARKES AUS Paul Bird Motorsport PBM + 1:37,212 + 10,903
21 63 Mike DI MEGLIO FRA Avintia Racing Avintia + 1 Lap –
22 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Pramac Racing Ducati + 1 Lap –
RT 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha + 6 Laps –
RT 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Team Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki + 18 Laps –
RT 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Ducati + 21 Laps –

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