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2017 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2017 Malaysian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 17 of 18 races in the 2017 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	29 October 2017
Official name	Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix[1]
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.543 km (3.444 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:59.212 Fastest lap Rider Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Time 2:13.084 on lap 13 Podium First Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Second Jorge Lorenzo Ducati Third Johann Zarco Yamaha
Moto2
Pole position Rider Franco Morbidelli Kalex Time 2:06.406 Fastest lap Rider Miguel Oliveira KTM Time 2:06.952 on lap 8 Podium First Miguel Oliveira KTM Second Brad Binder KTM Third Franco Morbidelli Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Joan Mir Honda Time 2:12.078 Fastest lap Rider Adam Norrodin Honda Time 2:12.775 on lap 3 Podium First Joan Mir Honda Second Jorge Martín Honda Third Enea Bastianini Honda

The 2017 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventeenth round of the 2017 MotoGP season. It was held at the Sepang International CircuitinSepang on 29 October 2017.

Classification[edit]

MotoGP[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	20	44:51.497	3	25
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati Team	Ducati	20	+0.743	6	20
3	5	Johann Zarco	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	20	+9.738	2	16
4	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	20	+17.763	7	13
5	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	20	+29.144	1	11
6	9	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	20	+30.380	13	10
7	46	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	20	+30.769	4	9
8	43	Jack Miller	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	20	+35.238	11	8
9	25	Maverick Viñales	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	20	+38.053	5	7
10	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	20	+39.847	12	6
11	19	Álvaro Bautista	Pull&Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	20	+42.559	15	5
12	38	Bradley Smith	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	20	+44.602	16	4
13	45	Scott Redding	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	20	+48.696	14	3
14	8	Héctor Barberá	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	20	+50.058	20	2
15	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	20	+50.705	10	1
16	60	Michael van der Mark	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	20	+56.397	22
17	29	Andrea Iannone	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	20	+58.391	9
18	53	Tito Rabat	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	20	+1:25.571	19
Ret	22	Sam Lowes	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	9	Retired	18
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Pull&Bear Aspar Team	Ducati	8	Accident	21
Ret	76	Loris Baz	Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	5	Accident	17
DSQ	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	11	Black flag	8
Sources:[2][3][4]

• Álex Rins was disqualified for taking a shortcut to enter the pit lane following a crash.

Moto2[edit]

Franco Morbidelli sealed the Moto2 title before the race started on Sunday after Thomas Lüthi was declared unfit and unable to start the race following a qualifying crash that left him with a broken ankle.^[5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	19	40:28.955	2	25
2	41	Brad Binder	KTM	19	+2.387	7	20
3	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	19	+6.878	1	16
4	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	19	+21.774	9	13
5	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	19	+22.086	5	11
6	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	19	+23.410	10	10
7	40	Fabio Quartararo	Kalex	19	+23.488	3	9
8	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	19	+24.976	13	8
9	32	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	19	+25.044	14	7
10	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	19	+27.199	21	6
11	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	19	+28.614	16	5
12	37	Augusto Fernández	Speed Up	19	+29.125	15	4
13	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	19	+31.978	20	3
14	27	Iker Lecuona	Kalex	19	+44.346	26	2
15	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	19	+45.088	23	1
16	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	19	+51.358	25
17	23	Marcel Schrötter	Suter	19	+59.328	6
18	15	Alex de Angelis	Kalex	19	+1:24.767	28
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	11	Accident	19
Ret	62	Stefano Manzi	Kalex	10	Accident	17
Ret	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	7	Retirement	11
Ret	26	Dimas Ekky Pratama	Kalex	1	Accident	27
Ret	87	Remy Gardner	Tech 3	1	Accident	24
Ret	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	1	Accident	4
Ret	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	0	Accident	8
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Suter	0	Accident	12
Ret	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	0	Accident	18
Ret	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	0	Accident	22
DNS	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex		Injury
WD	6	Tarran Mackenzie	Suter		Withdrew
WD	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter		Withdrew
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

• Thomas Lüthi did not start the race following a crash at the end of qualifying that left him injured, whilst both Kiefer Racing riders Tarran Mackenzie and Dominique Aegerter withdrew following the death of team boss Stefan Kiefer on October 27.

Moto3[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Joan Mir	Honda	18	40:14.545	1	25
2	88	Jorge Martín	Honda	18	+0.724	2	20
3	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	18	+0.763	8	16
4	11	Livio Loi	Honda	18	+6.868	6	13
5	17	John McPhee	Honda	18	+11.051	3	11
6	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	18	+11.090	19	10
7	5	Romano Fenati	Honda	18	+11.238	7	9
8	44	Arón Canet	Honda	18	+11.671	12	8
9	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	18	+11.959	11	7
10	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	18	+12.062	4	6
11	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	18	+12.572	15	5
12	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	18	+13.581	14	4
13	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	18	+14.885	18	3
14	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM	18	+18.736	5	2
15	96	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	18	+21.986	20	1
16	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	18	+23.365	24
17	42	Marcos Ramírez	KTM	18	+23.524	17
18	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	18	+25.908	27
19	12	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	18	+26.173	26
20	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	18	+40.612	21
21	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Peugeot	18	+40.772	22
22	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	18	+43.110	28
23	4	Patrik Pulkkinen	Peugeot	18	+1:00.918	30
24	6	María Herrera	Mahindra	18	+1:01.104	31
Ret	9	Kasma Daniel	Honda	17	Accident	29
Ret	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Mahindra	16	Accident	23
Ret	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	15	Retirement	16
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM	8	Accident	10
Ret	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	5	Accident	9[N 1]
Ret	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	3	Accident	25
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	1	Retirement	13
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race[edit]

MotoGP[edit]

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded.^[6]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Marc Márquez 282 2 Andrea Dovizioso 261 3 Maverick Viñales 226 4 Valentino Rossi 197 5 Dani Pedrosa 185

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 332 2 Ducati 303 3 Yamaha 301 4 Suzuki 87 5 Aprilia 64

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

Moto2[edit]

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Franco Morbidelli	288
2	Thomas Lüthi	243
3	Miguel Oliveira	216
4	Álex Márquez	190
5	Francesco Bagnaia	161
6	Mattia Pasini	148
7	Takaaki Nakagami	128
8	Simone Corsi	110
9	Brad Binder	109
10	Xavi Vierge	98

Moto3[edit]

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Joan Mir	321
2	Romano Fenati	235
3	Arón Canet	192
4	Jorge Martín	171
5	Fabio Di Giannantonio	153
6	Enea Bastianini	130
7	John McPhee	123
8	Andrea Migno	118
9	Marcos Ramírez	107
10	Philipp Öttl	104

Notes[edit]

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