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| Date | 9 November 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Gran PremioGenerali de la Comunitat Valenciana[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Circuit Ricardo Tormo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The2014 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and last round of the2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at theCircuit Ricardo Tormo inValencia on 9 November 2014.
In the MotoGP class,Valentino Rossi took his first pole position since the2010 French Grand Prix. However, it wasMarc Márquez who won the race, taking his thirteenth victory of the season,[2] surpassing the previous premier class record of twelve wins set byMick Doohan in1997. Rossi crossed the line in second place to take the runner-up spot in the championship, while the podium was completed byDani Pedrosa.[3] Further down the order,Jorge Lorenzo andAndrea Iannone decided to swap bikes – on lap 20 – as light rain fell. Both riders struggled to get the bike stopped in the uncertain conditions and dropped down the order; Iannone finished 22nd, while Lorenzo retired from the race. TheSuzuki MotoGP team returned to the series in a wildcard appearance, ahead of a full-season entry in2015. Utilising the newSuzuki GSX-RR,Randy de Puniet retired from the race before the halfway mark.Drive M7 Aspar rider,Hiroshi Aoyama, rode an Open-specificationHonda RC213V-RS and finished in fifteenth place. The race was also theGresini team's last race with Honda bikes ahead of their switch toAprilia in 2015. It was also the final race for thePBM chassis, as their team will switch to theBritish Superbike Championship from 2015.
In the Moto2 race,Thomas Lüthi took his second victory of the season,[4] after capitalising on a mistake by the world champion,Esteve Rabat, on the final lap to take the spoils. Rabat had been leading the race before missing a gear coming out of the final corner, and Lüthi was able to prevail by 0.133 seconds at the line. Rabat's second place did however, seal a record number of points scored for an intermediate class season.[5]Johann Zarco completed the podium in third place,[4] his fourth podium of the season. Aside from the race honours, the runner-up position in the final championship standings was decided by virtue of a collision between the two competitors battling for the position. Rabat's teammateMika Kallio andMaverick Viñales both retired from the race, thus giving Kallio the position by 15 points.
The world title was decided in the final Moto3 race of the season, with a third-place finish forÁlex Márquez enough to give him his first world title by two points, despite his title rivalJack Miller winning the race. In the process, he and his brother Marc Márquez became the first brothers to win world motorcycle racing titles.[6][7] Splitting the title rivals in the finishing order wasIsaac Viñales, taking his third podium of the season.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 93 |  Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | 46:39.627 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 |  Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 30 | +3.516 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +14.040 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 30 | +16.705 | 9 | 13 |
| 5 | 35 |  Cal Crutchlow | Ducati Team | Ducati | 30 | +16.773 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 44 | Pol Espargaró | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +37.884 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | NGM Forward Racing | ForwardYamaha | 30 | +38.168 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 6 |  Stefan Bradl | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 30 | +41.803 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 51 | Michele Pirro | Ducati Team | Ducati | 30 | +45.710 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 45 | Scott Redding | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | Honda | 30 | +51.191 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 8 | Héctor Barberá | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 30 | +56.512 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Octo IodaRacing Team | ART | 30 | +57.000 | 21 | 4 |
| 13 | 69 |  Nicky Hayden | Drive M7 Aspar | Honda | 30 | +57.262 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 30 | +57.517 | 7 | 2 |
| 15 | 7 |  Hiroshi Aoyama | Drive M7 Aspar | Honda | 30 | +58.775 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Go&Fun Honda Gresini | Honda | 30 | +58.864 | 13 | |
| 17 | 17 |  Karel Abraham | Cardion AB Motoracing | Honda | 30 | +1:02.389 | 23 | |
| 18 | 15 |  Alex de Angelis | NGM Forward Racing | ForwardYamaha | 30 | +1:15.795 | 19 | |
| 19 | 70 | Michael Laverty | Paul Bird Motorsport | PBM | 30 | +1:26.309 | 22 | |
| 20 | 23 |  Broc Parkes | Paul Bird Motorsport | PBM | 30 | +1:37.212 | 24 | |
| 21 | 63 |  Mike Di Meglio | Avintia Racing | Avintia | 29 | +1 lap | 25 | |
| 22 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 29 | +1 lap | 2 | |
| Ret | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 24 | Retirement | 4 | |
| Ret | 14 | Randy de Puniet | Team Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 12 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 68 |  Yonny Hernández | Energy T.I. Pramac Racing | Ducati | 9 | Retirement | 15 | |
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Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eighteen has concluded.[11]
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