Date 30 October 2016 Time 2:11.485 | Rider Andrea Dovizioso | |
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Official name Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix Location Sepang International Circuit, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia Course Permanent racing facility
5.543 km (3.444 mi) | ||
The 2016 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventeenth round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang on 30 October 2016. In the Moto2 class, Johann Zarco successfully defended the Moto2 title, thus becoming the first Moto2 rider to won two Moto2 title and the first since Jorge Lorenzo in 2007 to won back-to-back intermediate class title.
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MotoGP
The race, originally scheduled for 20 laps, was shortened to 19 laps after the start was delayed by 20 minutes due to torrential rain.
Moto2
Moto3
The race, originally scheduled for 18 laps, was red-flagged on lap 15 after Maria Herrera crashed into the back of Livio Loi in Turn 15. Since two thirds of the original distance required to award full points was completed, the race wasn't restarted. Maria Herrera wasn't classified in the final results since she failed to recover her bike into pit-lane within five minutes of the race being red-flagged (as required by the rules).