2012 French Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 18 races in the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 May 2012
Official name	Monster Energy Grand Prix de France[1]
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.185 km (2.600 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Honda Time 1:33.638 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Ducati Time 1:44.614 Podium First Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Second Valentino Rossi Ducati Third Casey Stoner Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Suter Time 1:37.710 Fastest lap Rider Claudio Corti Kalex Time 1:53.855 Podium First Thomas Lüthi Suter Second Claudio Corti Kalex Third Scott Redding Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Maverick Viñales FTRHonda Time 1:55.865 Fastest lap Rider Jakub Kornfeil FTRHonda Time 2:01.056 Podium First Louis Rossi FTRHonda Second Alberto Moncayo KalexKTM Third Álex Rins SuterHonda

The2012 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 18–20 May 2012 at theBugatti Circuit inLe Mans,France. In a press conference on the Thursday before the race,Casey Stoner announced his retirement from the sport at the end of the season.^[2] He went on to finish third in the MotoGP race, handing the championship lead toJorge Lorenzo, the race winner.Valentino Rossi took second place for his first podium sincethe previous year's race.Thomas Lüthi andLouis Rossi won the Moto2 and Moto3 races respectively. This was the 800th race to contribute to the Grand Prix motorcycle racing championship.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	28	49:39.743	4	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+9.905	7	20
3	1	Casey Stoner	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+11.298	2	16
4	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+29.361	1	13
5	6	Stefan Bradl	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	28	+32.477	13	11
6	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Team	Ducati	28	+32.842	11	10
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+59.759	3	9
8	35	Cal Crutchlow	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	28	+1:05.152	5	8
9	8	Héctor Barberá	Pramac Racing Team	Ducati	28	+1:07.846	9	7
10	19	Álvaro Bautista	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	28	+1:13.193	8	6
11	77	James Ellison	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART	28	+1:26.663	16	5
12	54	Mattia Pasini	Speed Master	ART	28	+1:27.633	20	4
13	41	Aleix Espargaró	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	27	+1 lap	17	3
14	51	Michele Pirro	San Carlo Honda Gresini	FTR	27	+1 lap	14	2
15	68	Yonny Hernández	Avintia Blusens	BQR	27	+1 lap	15	1
16	11	Ben Spies	Yamaha Factory Racing	Yamaha	27	+1 lap	6
17	7	Chris Vermeulen	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Suter	26	+2 laps	21
18	22	Iván Silva	Avintia Blusens	BQR	26	+2 laps	19
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Avintia Blusens	Ioda	24	Accident	18
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Power Electronics Aspar	ART	22	Accident	12
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB Motoracing	Ducati	11	Retirement	10
Sources:[3][4][5]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Thomas Lüthi	Suter	26	50:02.816	2	25
2	71	Claudio Corti	Kalex	26	+6.354	9	20
3	45	Scott Redding	Kalex	26	+12.162	4	16
4	29	Andrea Iannone	Speed Up	26	+16.338	5	13
5	36	Mika Kallio	Kalex	26	+19.278	6	11
6	40	Pol Espargaró	Kalex	26	+20.874	3	10
7	76	Max Neukirchner	Kalex	26	+28.117	26	9
8	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Suter	26	+38.317	28	8
9	38	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	26	+40.940	19	7
10	80	Esteve Rabat	Kalex	26	+44.077	18	6
11	24	Toni Elías	Suter	26	+59.583	10	5
12	60	Julián Simón	Suter	26	+1:01.785	11	4
13	18	Nicolás Terol	Suter	26	+1:03.430	17	3
14	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	26	+1:10.341	12	2
15	44	Roberto Rolfo	Suter	26	+1:22.145	21	1
16	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	26	+1:46.994	16
17	72	Yuki Takahashi	Suter	25	+1 lap	20
18	10	Marco Colandrea	FTR	25	+1 lap	31
DSQ	95	Anthony West	Moriwaki	26	(+21.705)[6]	27
Ret	5	Johann Zarco	Motobi	21	Accident	8
Ret	82	Elena Rosell	Moriwaki	18	Accident	30
Ret	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	17	Accident	24
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Speed Up	16	Accident	22
Ret	88	Ricard Cardús	AJR	13	Accident	15
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Suter	11	Retirement	1
Ret	8	Gino Rea	Suter	7	Accident	23
Ret	7	Alexander Lundh	MZ-REHonda	7	Retirement	25
Ret	15	Alex de Angelis	Suter	3	Accident	7
Ret	47	Ángel Rodríguez	Bimota	2	Accident	29
Ret	3	Simone Corsi	FTR	2	Retirement	14
Ret	4	Randy Krummenacher	Kalex	1	Retirement	13
DNS	19	Xavier Siméon	Tech 3
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	96	Louis Rossi	FTRHonda	24	49:12.390	15	25
2	23	Alberto Moncayo	KalexKTM	24	+27.348	7	20
3	42	Álex Rins	SuterHonda	24	+28.899	26	16
4	27	Niccolò Antonelli	FTRHonda	24	+33.195	27	13
5	61	Arthur Sissis	KTM	24	+36.989	14	11
6	11	Sandro Cortese	KTM	24	+45.312	6	10
7	53	Jasper Iwema	FGRHonda	24	+58.645	25	9
8	89	Alan Techer	TSRHonda	24	+1:05.022	18	8
9	21	Iván Moreno	FTRHonda	24	+1:09.194	29	7
10	30	Giulian Pedone	SuterHonda	24	+1:45.751	19	6
11	94	Jonas Folger	Ioda	23	+1 lap	11	5
12	77	Marcel Schrötter	Mahindra	23	+1 lap	32	4
13	86	Kevin Hanus	Honda	23	+1 lap	30	3
14	19	Alessandro Tonucci	FTRHonda	22	+2 laps	23	2
15	31	Niklas Ajo	KTM	20	+4 laps	13	1
Ret	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	KTM	17	Accident	10
Ret	25	Maverick Viñales	FTRHonda	16	Accident	1
Ret	44	Miguel Oliveira	SuterHonda	15	Accident	3
Ret	39	Luis Salom	KalexKTM	13	Accident	9
Ret	55	Héctor Faubel	KalexKTM	12	Accident	8
Ret	84	Jakub Kornfeil	FTRHonda	12	Accident	4
Ret	32	Isaac Viñales	FTRHonda	12	Accident	20
Ret	26	Adrián Martín	FTRHonda	8	Accident	12
Ret	8	Jack Miller	Honda	8	Retirement	22
Ret	15	Simone Grotzkyj	SuterHonda	7	Accident	24
Ret	99	Danny Webb	Mahindra	7	Retirement	31
Ret	52	Danny Kent	KTM	5	Accident	17
Ret	5	Romano Fenati	FTRHonda	2	Accident	21
Ret	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	1	Accident	5
Ret	51	Kenta Fujii	TSRHonda	1	Accident	28
Ret	41	Brad Binder	KalexKTM	0	Accident	16
Ret	3	Luigi Morciano	Ioda	0	Retirement	33
DNS	7	Efrén Vázquez	FTRHonda			2
DNS	9	Toni Finsterbusch	Honda
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round four has concluded.^[7]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Jorge Lorenzo 90 2 Casey Stoner 82 3 Dani Pedrosa 65 4 Cal Crutchlow 45 5 Andrea Dovizioso 44

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 90 2 Honda 86 3 Ducati 47 4 ART 16 5 Suter 4

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

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