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| Race 11 of 18 races in the 2010 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | August 29, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix[1][2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The2010 Indianapolis Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the2010 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of August 27–29, 2010 at theIndianapolis Motor Speedway.
During a support event for MotoGP, the second of two United States Grand Prix Racer Union 250cc (age 12–18) races during the race meet on August 29, 13-year-oldPeter Lenz was killed during the warmup lap before the start. It was the first competitor fatality at the Speedway during a race since1973.[4]
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 26 |  Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | 47:31.615 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | 11 |  Ben Spies | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 28 | +3.575 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +6.812 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 46 |  Valentino Rossi | Fiat Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +12.633 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +21.885 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Ducati Team | Ducati | 28 | +35.138 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 28 | +36.740 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 28 | +36.825 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 28 | +44.905 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 40 | Héctor Barberá | Páginas Amarillas Aspar | Ducati | 28 | +51.368 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 28 | +55.386 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 7 |  Hiroshi Aoyama | Interwetten Honda MotoGP | Honda | 28 | +57.903 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 14 |  Randy de Puniet | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 28 | +1:04.139 | 17 | 3 |
| Ret | 36 |  Mika Kallio | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 18 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 5 | Colin Edwards | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 16 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 27 |  Casey Stoner | Ducati Team | Ducati | 7 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 33 | Marco Melandri | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 2 | Accident | 12 | |
| Sources:[5][6][7] | ||||||||
An eight-motorcycle crash in the Snake Pit at the start (#34 R. Hayden, #29 Iannone, #2 Talmácsi, #52 Pešek, #61 Ivanov, #3 Corsi, #48 Tomizawa, #56 Ranseder) led to a red flag and two retirements (Tomizawa and Ranseder) immediately. It was later restarted, with the distance shortened to 17 laps.[8]
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 24 | Toni Elías | Moriwaki | 17 | 30:27.480 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 60 | Julián Simón | Suter | 17 | +0.405 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 45 |  Scott Redding | Suter | 17 | +4.227 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Speed Up | 17 | +5.978 | 25 | 13 |
| 5 | 3 | Simone Corsi | Motobi | 17 | +7.058 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 40 | Sergio Gadea | Pons Kalex | 17 | +9.432 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 12 |  Thomas Lüthi | Moriwaki | 17 | +9.815 | 16 | 9 |
| 8 | 2 |  Gábor Talmácsi | Speed Up | 17 | +10.141 | 15 | 8 |
| 9 | 42 | Jason DiSalvo | FTR | 17 | +17.564 | 26 | 7 |
| 10 | 8 | Anthony West | MZ-REHonda | 17 | +17.592 | 5 | 6 |
| 11 | 77 | Dominique Aegerter | Suter | 17 | +17.618 | 20 | 5 |
| 12 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Suter | 17 | +20.527 | 21 | 4 |
| 13 | 71 | Claudio Corti | Suter | 17 | +26.008 | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 80 | Axel Pons | Pons Kalex | 17 | +28.353 | 27 | 2 |
| 15 | 68 |  Yonny Hernández | BQR-Moto2 | 17 | +30.480 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | I.C.P. | 17 | +30.538 | 19 | |
| 17 | 34 | Roger Lee Hayden | Moriwaki | 17 | +31.860 | 28 | |
| 18 | 53 | Valentin Debise | ADV | 17 | +32.255 | 30 | |
| 19 | 9 | Kenny Noyes | Promoharris | 17 | +32.500 | 29 | |
| 20 | 52 |  Lukáš Pešek | Moriwaki | 17 | +32.529 | 14 | |
| 21 | 39 |  Robertino Pietri | Suter | 17 | +44.569 | 32 | |
| 22 | 5 | Joan Olivé | Promoharris | 17 | +44.956 | 35 | |
| 23 | 41 |  Arne Tode | Suter | 17 | +52.993 | 31 | |
| 24 | 88 | Yannick Guerra | Moriwaki | 17 | +57.481 | 38 | |
| 25 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Suter | 17 | +1:16.404 | 18 | |
| 26 | 72 | Yuki Takahashi | Tech 3 | 14 | +3 laps | 12 | |
| Ret | 95 |  Mashel Al Naimi | BQR-Moto2 | 12 | Retirement | 37 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Suter | 11 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 14 |  Ratthapark Wilairot | Bimota | 8 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Tech 3 | 6 | Retirement | 10 | |
| Ret | 65 | Stefan Bradl | Suter | 5 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 4 | Ricard Cardús | Bimota | 2 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 11 | Yusuke Teshima | Motobi | 2 | Accident | 36 | |
| Ret | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Suter | 1 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 6 | Alex Debón | FTR | 1 | Accident | 33 | |
| Ret | 61 |  Vladimir Ivanov | Moriwaki | 1 | Accident | 24 | |
| DNS | 48 | Shoya Tomizawa | Suter | 0 | Accident in first start | 23 | |
| DNS | 56 |  Michael Ranseder | Suter | 0 | Accident in first start | 11 | |
| DNS | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Moriwaki | Injured | |||
| DNS | 17 | Karel Abraham | FTR | Did not start | |||
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Marc Márquez was given a 20-second penalty after the race for cutting the track.[9]
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded.[10]
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