Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix 2018-11-04

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Event
Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix

Date
Sun 4th November 2018 (UTC)

Timestamp

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00:00:00 UTC

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League
MotoGP

Season
2018

Round
18

Status

Location
Sepang International Circuit

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Description

The 2018 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang on 4 November 2018.

World champion Marc Marquez of Spain rode to his ninth win of the 2018 MotoGP season in the Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit after long-time leader Valentino Rossi of Italy crashed.
From second on the grid, Rossi moved past poleman Johann Zarco to take the lead into the first corner and from there, proceeded to build a lead of more than a second in hot, sweltering conditions. Marquez also quickly set about making up for his six-place grid penalty for impeding Italy's Andrea Iannone in qualifying and by the end of the fifth of the 20-lap race, was already behind Rossi.
Marquez had managed to get within 0.6 seconds of Rossi when the Italian rider suffered a low-speed crash at Turn 1 with three laps to go. Marquez inherited a lead of four seconds over Zarco as a result of Rossi's incident and from there he was able to cruise to a comfortable victory.
Zarco was passed for second by fellow Spaniard Alex Rins of Team Suzuki on the final lap.

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Result List

Result Description
Pos./Rider/Team/Bike/Time/Gap/ Points

1/Marc MARQUEZ/Repsol Honda Team/Honda/40'32.372/25
2/Alex RINS/Team SUZUKI ECSTAR/Suzuki/+1.898/20
3/Johann ZARCO/Monster Yamaha Tech 3/Yamaha/+2.474/16
4/Maverick VIÑALES/Movistar Yamaha MotoGP/Yamaha/+4.667/13
5/Dani PEDROSA/Repsol Honda Team/Honda/+6.190/11
6/Andrea DOVIZIOSO/Ducati Team/Ducati/+11.248/10
7/Alvaro BAUTISTA/Angel Nieto Team/Ducati/+15.611/9
8/Jack MILLER/Alma Pramac Racing/Ducati/+19.009/8
9/Danilo PETRUCCI I/Alma Pramac Racing/Ducati/+22.921/7
10/Hafizh SYAHRIN/Monster Yamaha Tech 3/Yamaha/+26.919/6
11/Aleix ESPARGARO/Aprilia Racing Team Gresini/Aprilia/+29.503/5
12/Franco MORBIDELLI/EG 0,0 Marc VDS/Honda/+30.933/4
13/Stefan BRADL/LCR Honda CASTROL/Honda/+35.322/3
14/Takaaki NAKAGAMI/LCR Honda IDEMITSU/Honda/+37.912/2
15/Bradley SMITH/Red Bull KTM Factory Racing/KTM/+39.675/1
16/Thomas LUTHI/EG 0,0 Marc VDS/Honda/+41.820
17/Xavier SIMEON/Reale Avintia Racing/Ducati/+43.978
18/Valentino ROSSI/Movistar Yamaha MotoGP/Yamaha/+58.288
19/Scott REDDING/Aprilia Racing Team Gresini/Aprilia/+1'00.191
Not Classified
Pol ESPARGARO/Red Bull KTM Factory Racing/KTM/4 Laps
Michele PIRRO/Ducati Team/Ducati/15 Laps
Karel ABRAHAM/Angel Nieto Team/Ducati/17 Laps
Not Finished 1st Lap
Andrea IANNONE/Team SUZUKI ECSTAR/Suzuki/0 Lap

Championship standings

1/Marc MARQUEZ/321
2/Andrea DOVIZIOSO/220
3/Valentino ROSSI/195
4/Maverick VIÑALES/193
5/Alex RINS/149
6/Johann ZARCO/149
7/Cal CRUTCHLOW /148
8/Danilo PETRUCCI /144
9/Andrea IANNONE/133
10/Jorge LORENZO/130

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