Date 21 July 2013 Time 1:21.176 | Rider Stefan Bradl | |
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Official name Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix Location Laguna Seca, Monterey, California, United States Course Permanent racing facility
3.610 km (2.243 mi) | ||
The 2013 United States motorcycle Grand Prix (formally known as the 2013 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix) was the ninth round of the 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, and the second of three races in the 2013 season to take place in the United States of America. It was held on 21 July at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California. Like always, only a MotoGP class race was held at Laguna Seca.
Stefan Bradl took his first pole position, recorded his first pole position in MotoGP. At the famous corkscrew turn on lap 4 Marc Márquez, having had a faster run out of the previous corner, ran around the outside of Valentino Rossi coming into the corkscrew and was run wide by Rossi mid-corner. Márquez replicated the overtake that Rossi made on Casey Stoner at the same corner in 2008 to pass the Italian and give chase to Bradl. The gap closed quickly at first but Márquez followed Bradl until lap 19 when he made a pass into the last corner, the gap gradually extended in Márquez' favour over the next few laps and he won his 3rd GP of the year to extend his championship lead to 16 points over Dani Pedrosa. The win also marked the beating of another of Freddie Spencer's records as Márquez is now the youngest rider to win back to back races in the Premier Class of GP racing and the first/only rookie to win at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This was the last MotoGP race to take place at Laguna Seca, which was then replaced by Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in 2014 season at Termas de Río Hondo, Argentina. Bradl finished in second place, recorded his first podium in MotoGP and Rossi finished in third place.