The protests were made by Aprilia Racing Team Gresini, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, Repsol Honda Team and Team Suzuki Ecstar, who presented their concerns to the FIM MotoGP Stewards Panel. Based on guidelines and regulations currently in force, the FIM MotoGP Stewards Panel rejected their protests.
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The protests were made by Aprilia Racing Team Gresini, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, Repsol Honda Team and Team Suzuki Ecstar, who presented their concerns to the FIM MotoGP Stewards Panel. Based on guidelines and regulations currently in force, the FIM MotoGP Stewards Panel rejected their protests.
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“The problem is that my feeling is more or less like last year. So, I finish in fifth, that is good, especially because I was 0.6 off of the victory but at this track we are always good so we have to keep working because in some other places maybe we’ll have more problems. But we’ll take this result. I tried for the podium, but I was not strong enough.”
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“I am surprised obviously because after this morning’s warm up I didn’t think I could fight for the top six, let alone the podium,” began Crutchlow, reflecting upon his P3. “But once I got going in the race I was able to compete and be competitive. My whole LCR Honda Castrol team did a great job, we never gave up after a bad winter because we didn’t know the direction we were going in with the bike, because we never managed to test at the end of last year.
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“I stopped Rins every time because he wanted to be faster too soon, and that was bad for the tyre and I was right,” continued the Italian. “I stop him every time, fortunately I have more power on the straight. I lose a little bit of time in the middle of the corner because his speed in the middle of the corner is amazing, but I was able to overtake him every time and stop him and continue to save the tyre, that was the key to try and put Marc on the limit in the last few laps. And that was the key, I’m so happy I was able to do that.”
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Andrea Dovizioso (Mission Winnow Ducati) takes an incredible victory at the VisitQatar Grand Prix after an epic desert duel between five riders in the latter stages ends with the Italian beating Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) by 0.023, with Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda Castrol) beating Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and Valentino Rossi (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) to P3 – the top five split by just 0.6 seconds…
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Switching positions in some close but fair racing, it was a duel to remember and still they were able to keep the gap to the group behind. That group behind were locked in their own war, however, and some shuffling for position between Putra, rookie Herjan Firdaus, Afridza Munandar, Tatchakorn Buasri and Shoki Igarashi creating some classic IATC moves.
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Despite taking the holeshot, Vierge started to slip backwards, dropping from second to fifth inside four corners on lap seven. Dynavolt Intact GP´s Marcel Schrötter, Remy Gardner (ONEXOX TKKR SAG Team) and his EG 0,0 Marc VDS teammate Alex Marquez all making their way past the Catalan.
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The lead was changing every lap as the slipstream effect came into play down the front straight, but it was Toba who led onto the final lap, with the Leopard Racing duo tucked in behind. The Japanese rider got his head down and suddenly, himself, Dalla Porta and Canet had forged a small gap to the following pack as it soon became a three-way fight for the win. Coming into Turn 16, Dalla Porta had the advantage but Toba used the slipstream to full effect, powering past his fellow Honda rider down the straight to take the chequered flag in P1, becoming the first Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup Champion to win a Grand Prix. Dalla Porta settled for P2, with Canet coming home third to give himself and Max Biaggi a podium in Qatar.
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