2016 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2016 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló on 5 June 2016.

  2016 Catalan Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 18 races in the 2016 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	5 June 2016
Official name	Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya
Location	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.655 km (2.892 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:43.589 Fastest lap Rider Maverick Viñales Suzuki Time 1:45.971 on lap 5 Podium First Valentino Rossi Yamaha Second Marc Márquez Honda Third Dani Pedrosa Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Johann Zarco Kalex Time 1:49.179 Fastest lap Rider Johann Zarco Kalex Time 1:49.968 on lap 2 Podium First Johann Zarco Kalex Second Álex Rins Kalex Third Takaaki Nakagami Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Brad Binder KTM Time 1:54.024 Fastest lap Rider Romano Fenati KTM Time 1:54.145 on lap 8 Podium First Jorge Navarro Honda Second Brad Binder KTM Third Enea Bastianini Honda

The weekend was overshadowed by the death of Moto2 rider Luis Salom, as he was killed in a crash at Europcar (motorcycle Turn 12) during Free Practice 2 on Friday, approximately 25 minutes before the end of the session. For the remainder of the weekend, the track layout was altered to use the configuration used by Formula One since 2007, in order to reduce speeds in the part of the circuit where Salom's accident occurred. The altered layout included the replacement of the long sweeping corner at La Caixa with a slower hairpin and the insertion of a chicane between Europcar (the penultimate turn) and New Holland (final turn).

Further adjustments were made to the circuit by safety officials following an evaluation conducted with a group of riders on Friday evening. The changes included narrowing the chicane by two metres on the outside, creating a gravel trap in the run-off area of the chicane and making the chicane a permanent yellow flag zone during the event. Following the 2016 season, the FIM, FIA and the circuit agreed to move the chicane up by a few metres for motorcycles. This modification, which was constructed for the 2017 winter testing season, added additional run-off areas for motorcycles and ease the entrance to pit lane. However, after the first practice of the 2017 race, the chicane was deemed dangerous and was reverted to the car chicane because of concerns over the surface change between the intended motorcycle and the car chicanes. Following the removal of seating in the area and additional runoff, the chicane will be eliminated in 2018.

This event also saw the end of the controversial rivalry between Valentino Rossi and Marc Márquez since it began at the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix, when Rossi shook hands with Márquez at the parc fermé post-race. Rossi later said that the handshake was the right thing to do following Salom's death.

Pre-race

Significant amounts of speculation concerning the top riders and their plans for 2017 culminated in a series of riders announcing their future teams. Marc Márquez confirmed he would partner teammate Dani Pedrosa for a further two seasons at Repsol Honda, while it was announced that Tech 3 pairing Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaró would move to the new factory KTM squad.

Following Maverick Viñales's previous confirmation alongside Valentino Rossi at Yamaha, and reigning champion Jorge Lorenzo's confirmed move to Ducati, the only factory seats remaining were those alongside Andrea Iannone and Sam Lowes at Suzuki and Aprilia respectively.

Valentino Rossi and Marc Márquez, congratulating each other after finishing first and second at the MotoGP race.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	25	44:37.589	5	25
2	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	2.652	1	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	6.313	3	16
4	25	Maverick Viñales	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	25	24.388	6	13
5	44	Pol Espargaró	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	25	29.546	12	11
6	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	25	36.244	7	10
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	25	41.464	10	9
8	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	25	42.975	21	8
9	9	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	Ducati	25	45.337	9	7
10	43	Jack Miller	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	25	49.514	19	6
11	8	Héctor Barberá	Avintia Racing	Ducati	25	46.669	4	5
12	6	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	25	55.133	18	4
13	50	Eugene Laverty	Aspar Team MotoGP	Ducati	25	57.974	17	3
14	53	Tito Rabat	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	25	1:00.141	20	2
15	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati Team	Ducati	25	1:00.429	15	1
16	45	Scott Redding	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	Ducati	25	1:16.269	11
17	68	Yonny Hernández	Aspar Team MotoGP	Ducati	24	1 lap	16
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	18	Electronics	13
Ret	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	16	Collision	2
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Ducati Team	Ducati	16	Collision	8
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	6	Engine	14
Sources:

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	23	42:31.347	1	25
2	40	Álex Rins	Kalex	23	4.180	2	20
3	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	23	9.313	4	16
4	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	23	10.777	13	13
5	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	23	10.961	3	11
6	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	23	13.000	5	10
7	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	23	17.046	12	9
8	44	Miguel Oliveira	Kalex	23	20.637	15	8
9	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	23	20.646	6	7
10	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	23	23.163	9	6
11	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	23	28.145	18	5
12	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	23	28.348	19	4
13	60	Julián Simón	Speed Up	23	34.482	17	3
14	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	23	37.567	8	2
15	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	23	42.998	24	1
16	32	Isaac Viñales	Tech 3	23	44.632	27
17	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	23	48.536	25
18	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	23	51.046	7
19	93	Ramdan Rosli	Kalex	23	1:22.466	28
20	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	23	1:25.462	22
21	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	22	1 lap	26
Ret	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Kalex	15	Accident Damage	23
Ret	77	Dominique Aegerter	Kalex	14	Engine	14
Ret	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	14	Accident Damage	20
Ret	52	Danny Kent	Kalex	10	Brakes	21
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	5	Radiator Leak	10
Ret	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	2	Accident	11
Ret	19	Xavier Siméon	Speed Up	1	Accident	16
DNS	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex		Withdrew (Teammate's fatal crash)
DNS	39	Luis Salom	Kalex		FP2 fatal crash (Europcar)
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	9	Jorge Navarro	Honda	22	42:18.228	3	25
2	41	Brad Binder	KTM	22	0.564	1	20
3	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	22	0.817	5	16
4	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	22	0.925	10	13
5	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	22	1.531	4	11
6	44	Arón Canet	Honda	22	1.581	9	10
7	20	Fabio Quartararo	KTM	22	13.605	12	9
8	36	Joan Mir	KTM	22	13.672	17	8
9	4	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	22	13.753	18	7
10	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Honda	22	14.814	15	6
11	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	22	14.840	13	5
12	40	Darryn Binder	Mahindra	22	29.860	30	4
13	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	22	32.006	21	3
14	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Mahindra	22	33.305	24	2
15	17	John McPhee	Peugeot	22	33.766	26	1
16	11	Livio Loi	Honda	22	34.986	20
17	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	22	36.384	28
18	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	22	41.731	14
19	55	Andrea Locatelli	KTM	22	42.985	23
20	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	22	59.035	2
21	3	Fabio Spiranelli	Mahindra	22	1:29.713	35
22	77	Lorenzo Petrarca	Mahindra	22	1:30.640	34
Ret	98	Karel Hanika	Mahindra	21	Accident	31
Ret	37	Davide Pizzoli	KTM	21	Accident	29
Ret	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	20	Accident	19
Ret	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	19	Accident	6
Ret	88	Jorge Martín	Mahindra	16	Accident	22
Ret	12	Albert Arenas	Mahindra	13	Accident	16
Ret	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	5	Accident	7
Ret	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	5	Accident Damage	25
Ret	76	Hiroki Ono	Honda	3	Accident	11
Ret	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	3	Accident	8
Ret	6	María Herrera	KTM	2	Accident	27
Ret	43	Stefano Valtulini	Mahindra	2	Accident Damage	32
Ret	10	Alexis Masbou	Peugeot	0	Accident	33
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seven has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Marc Marquez	125
2	Jorge Lorenzo	115
3	Valentino Rossi	103
4	Dani Pedrosa	82
5	Maverick Vinales	72

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	165
2	Honda	135
3	Ducati	92
4	Suzuki	78
5	Aprilia	37

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