2011 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2011 Malaysian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 17 of 18 races in the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 October 2011
Official name	Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.548 km (3.447 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 2:01.462
Moto2
Pole position Rider Thomas Lüthi Suter Time 2:07.512 Fastest lap Rider Stefan Bradl Kalex Time 2:08.220 Podium First Thomas Lüthi Suter Second Stefan Bradl Kalex Third Pol Espargaró FTR
125cc
Pole position Rider Nicolás Terol Aprilia Time 2:13.579 Fastest lap Rider Nicolás Terol Aprilia Time 2:14.229 Podium First Maverick Viñales Aprilia Second Sandro Cortese Aprilia Third Johann Zarco Derbi

The 2011 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventeenth round of the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 21–23 October 2011 at the Sepang International Circuit, but the MotoGP race was red-flagged and subsequently cancelled after two laps due to a serious accident involving Marco Simoncelli. Simoncelli fell while running fourth, his bike and body veering across the path of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. Simoncelli was fatally struck in the head and chest by the two bikes. He was taken straight to the circuit's medical centre, but died of his injuries shortly thereafter.

MotoGP classification

Marco Simoncelli, riding for Honda Gresini, died during the event.

After qualifying, the Repsol Honda team locked out the front row of the grid. At the start of the twenty lap race, Casey Stoner took the led from Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso. Marco Simoncelli, in a Gresini Racing Honda, was fourth.

Lap 2 incident

Exiting the right-handed wide Turn 11 on the second lap, Simoncelli loses traction in the front wheels into a "low-side" and veered into the path of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi, both of whom made contact with the fallen rider on their motorcycles. His helmet was separated from the rider as part of the impact from the incident. The race was immediately stopped. Edwards suffered a separated shoulder. Officials planned a 16.30 restart (meaning the procedure started for a restart at 16.50), with rules calling for a completely new twenty lap race scheduled with the remaining riders as three full laps had not been completed, which is required for an official race.

Because of the seriousness of Simoncelli's situation, the 20-minute restart procedure was indefinitely delayed.

MotoGP medical director Michele Macchiagodena stated to the media Simoncelli suffered cardiac arrest whilst in the ambulance. He noted, "Immediately in the Medical Centre, with the help also of the Doctor of our staff at the Clinica Mobile and local Doctors, he was intubated and it was possible to take off some blood from the thorax. The CPR was continued for 45 minutes because we tried to help him for as long as we thought it was possible. Unfortunately it was not possible to help him and at 16.56 we had to declare he was dead."

The race was completely abandoned as a non-event because only one lap was completed. No race winner was declared nor were points offered.

The announcement of cancellation was made on timing monitors and the broadcast by Dorna and the Sepang International Circuit. Video evidence showed spectators trashed the circuit after the cancellation was announced, not understanding the fatal crash.

Moto2 classification

The race was stopped after 17 laps due to an accident involving Axel Pons.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	17	36:35.114	1	25
2	65	Stefan Bradl	Kalex	17	+0.187	2	20
3	44	Pol Espargaró	FTR	17	+7.465	5	16
4	15	Alex de Angelis	Motobi	17	+9.127	11	13
5	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	17	+11.494	20	11
6	36	Mika Kallio	Suter	17	+11.903	7	10
7	51	Michele Pirro	Moriwaki	17	+12.568	3	9
8	40	Aleix Espargaró	Pons Kalex	17	+12.963	6	8
9	29	Andrea Iannone	Suter	17	+14.098	13	7
10	45	Scott Redding	Suter	17	+16.697	9	6
11	34	Esteve Rabat	FTR	17	+19.568	12	5
12	54	Kenan Sofuoğlu	Suter	17	+24.885	19	4
13	16	Jules Cluzel	Suter	17	+25.345	18	3
14	63	Mike Di Meglio	Tech 3	17	+26.696	17	2
15	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3	17	+32.806	23	1
16	6	Joan Olivé	FTR	17	+36.497	21
17	18	Jordi Torres	Suter	17	+40.569	27
18	87	Mohamad Zamri Baba	Moriwaki	17	+56.756	28
19	20	Iván Moreno	Suter	17	+1:05.966	32
20	86	Hafizh Syahrin	Moriwaki	17	+1:06.110	34
21	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	17	+1:17.083	29
22	39	Robertino Pietri	Suter	17	+1:19.415	31
23	95	Mashel Al Naimi	Moriwaki	16	+1 lap	35
NC	80	Axel Pons	Pons Kalex	17	+32.979	25
NC	9	Kenny Noyes	FTR	17	+33.179	30
Ret	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Suter	12	Retirement	22
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	FTR	8	Accident	10
Ret	64	Santiago Hernández	FTR	7	Accident	26
Ret	23	Apiwat Wongthananon	FTR	7	Retirement	36
Ret	53	Valentin Debise	FTR	6	Retirement	24
Ret	72	Yuki Takahashi	Moriwaki	5	Retirement	4
Ret	71	Claudio Corti	Suter	3	Collision	8
Ret	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	3	Collision	14
Ret	13	Anthony West	MZ-RE Honda	1	Collision	16
Ret	76	Max Neukirchner	MZ-RE Honda	1	Collision	15
DSQ	68	Yonny Hernández	FTR	8	Black flag	33
DNS	93	Marc Márquez	Suter		Injury
DNS	88	Ricard Cardús	Moriwaki		Injury
WD	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3		Injury
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	25	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	18	40:34.280	7	25
2	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	18	+0.354	3	20
3	5	Johann Zarco	Derbi	18	+2.455	15	16
4	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	18	+2.921	2	13
5	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	18	+10.049	1	11
6	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	18	+17.964	6	10
7	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Derbi	18	+38.706	13	9
8	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Aprilia	18	+39.099	11	8
9	23	Alberto Moncayo	Aprilia	18	+39.223	8	7
10	52	Danny Kent	Aprilia	18	+40.237	10	6
11	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	18	+54.806	4	5
12	10	Alexis Masbou	KTM	18	+1:07.891	14	4
13	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	18	+1:07.907	12	3
14	28	Josep Rodríguez	Aprilia	18	+1:08.099	24	2
15	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Aprilia	18	+1:08.156	21	1
16	8	Jack Miller	KTM	18	+1:15.230	26
17	30	Giulian Pedone	Aprilia	18	+1:18.703	18
18	96	Louis Rossi	Aprilia	18	+1:18.913	17
19	50	Sturla Fagerhaug	Aprilia	18	+1:30.270	28
20	32	Arthur Sissis	Aprilia	18	+1:31.810	30
21	17	Taylor Mackenzie	Aprilia	18	+1:33.250	22
22	60	Manuel Tatasciore	Aprilia	18	+1:50.690	29
23	40	Marco Colandrea	Aprilia	18	+2:02.252	32
24	64	Farid Badrul	Derbi	18	+2:16.968	31
Ret	14	Brad Binder	Aprilia	16	Retirement	27
Ret	26	Adrián Martín	Aprilia	10	Retirement	9
Ret	3	Luigi Morciano	Aprilia	8	Collision	25
Ret	21	Harry Stafford	Aprilia	8	Collision	19
Ret	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	5	Accident	16
Ret	39	Luis Salom	Aprilia	0	Collision	5
Ret	53	Jasper Iwema	Aprilia	0	Collision	20
Ret	36	Joan Perelló	Aprilia	0	Collision	23
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT