2007 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

  2007 Japanese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 15 of 18 races in the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 September 2007
Official name	A-Style Grand Prix of Japan[1][2][3]
Location	Twin Ring Motegi
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.801 km (2.983 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Time 1:45.864 Fastest lap Rider Toni Elías Time 1:50.718 Podium First Loris Capirossi Second Randy de Puniet Third Toni Elías
250 cc
Pole position Rider Shuhei Aoyama Time 1:51.327 Fastest lap Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 2:04.160 Podium First Mika Kallio Second Andrea Dovizioso Third Hector Barbera
125 cc
Pole position Rider Mattia Pasini Time 1:57.301 Fastest lap Rider Raffaele De Rosa Time 2:10.998 Podium First Mattia Pasini Second Gábor Talmácsi Third Héctor Faubel

The 2007 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2007 MotoGP championship. It was held on 21–23 September at Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, Tochigi. Loris Capirossi won the MotoGP race, his last career victory, as well the last victory for a Ducati rider other than Casey Stoner until the 2016 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix. Even more significant for the Ducati team was that teammate Stoner secured his and Ducati's first MotoGP title with a sixth place, the only title for a Ducati rider until 2022.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	47:05.484	8	25
2	14	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	24	+10.853	4	20
3	24	Toni Elías	Honda Gresini	Honda	24	+11.526	5	16
4	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+12.192	18	13
5	33	Marco Melandri	Honda Gresini	Honda	24	+28.569	10	11
6	27	Casey Stoner	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	24	+31.179	9	10
7	13	Anthony West	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	24	+50.001	6	9
8	4	Alex Barros	Pramac d'Antin	Ducati	24	+52.343	15	8
9	1	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	24	+53.629	3	7
10	21	John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	24	+59.715	11	6
11	71	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	24	+1:02.804	17	5
12	6	Makoto Tamada	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	24	+1:09.313	16	4
13	46	Valentino Rossi	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+1:09.699	2	3
14	5	Colin Edwards	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	24	+1:11.735	7	2
15	72	Shinichi Ito	Pramac d'Antin	Ducati	24	+1:12.290	20	1
16	56	Shinya Nakano	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	24	+1:32.979	12
17	87	Akira Yanagawa	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	23	+1 lap	19
18	7	Carlos Checa	Honda LCR	Honda	23	+1 lap	14
Ret	64	Kousuke Akiyoshi	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	20	Retirement	13
Ret	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	14	Accident	1
Ret	80	Kurtis Roberts	Team Roberts	KR212V	1	Retirement	21
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	23	48:28.585	5	25
2	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	23	+4.893	2	20
3	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	23	+21.527	4	16
4	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	23	+23.488	8	13
5	3	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	23	+25.378	9	11
6	60	Julián Simón	Honda	23	+42.264	7	10
7	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	23	+48.782	12	9
8	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	23	+57.782	6	8
9	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	23	+1:09.049	1	7
10	12	Thomas Lüthi	Aprilia	23	+1:10.837	10	6
11	1	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	23	+1:13.035	3	5
12	76	Seijin Oikawa	Yamaha	23	+1:26.371	28	4
13	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	23	+1:36.236	25	3
14	75	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	23	+1:47.098	17	2
15	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	23	+1:50.081	11	1
16	15	Roberto Locatelli	Gilera	23	+1:58.741	13
17	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	23	+2:06.782	22
18	10	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	23	+2:10.415	23
19	50	Eugene Laverty	Honda	22	+1 lap	21
20	77	Yuki Hamamoto	Yamaha	22	+1 lap	26
Ret	45	Dan Linfoot	Aprilia	19	Accident	27
Ret	32	Fabrizio Lai	Aprilia	17	Retirement	15
Ret	20	Takumi Takahashi	Honda	3	Retirement	16
Ret	8	Ratthapark Wilairot	Honda	2	Accident	14
Ret	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	1	Accident	20
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	0	Accident	19
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	0	Accident	18
Ret	7	Efrén Vázquez	Aprilia	0	Accident	24
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	21	46:29.900	1	25
2	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	21	+2.985	3	20
3	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	21	+22.405	4	16
4	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	21	+33.751	12	13
5	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	21	+37.351	7	11
6	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	21	+39.062	6	10
7	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	21	+44.488	20	9
8	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	21	+48.901	11	8
9	60	Michael Ranseder	Derbi	21	+50.672	21	7
10	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	21	+56.674	19	6
11	77	Dominique Aegerter	Aprilia	21	+1:03.588	26	5
12	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	21	+1:10.334	8	4
13	99	Danny Webb	Honda	21	+1:14.579	29	3
14	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	KTM	21	+1:19.549	2	2
15	17	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	21	+1:23.255	13	1
16	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	21	+1:28.289	24
17	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	21	+1:30.061	14
18	74	Kazuma Watanabe	Honda	21	+1:30.554	32
19	34	Randy Krummenacher	KTM	21	+1:35.406	17
20	69	Nayuta Mizuno	Yamaha	21	+1:42.793	36
21	7	Alexis Masbou	Honda	21	+2:05.969	22
22	58	Shoya Tomizawa	Honda	17	+4 laps	30
Ret	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	20	Accident	27
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	Aprilia	17	Retirement	16
Ret	59	Iori Namihira	Honda	14	Accident	31
Ret	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	12	Retirement	18
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	9	Retirement	5
Ret	12	Esteve Rabat	Honda	9	Accident	15
Ret	27	Stefano Bianco	Aprilia	8	Accident	23
Ret	95	Robert Mureșan	Derbi	8	Accident	28
Ret	51	Stevie Bonsey	KTM	7	Accident	25
Ret	11	Sandro Cortese	Aprilia	7	Retirement	10
Ret	15	Federico Sandi	Aprilia	6	Retirement	34
Ret	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	5	Accident	9
Ret	57	Yuuichi Yanagisawa	Honda	5	Accident	35
Ret	13	Dino Lombardi	Honda	3	Accident	33
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Casey Stoner 297 2 Valentino Rossi 214 3 Dani Pedrosa 188 4 John Hopkins 156 5 Chris Vermeulen 152

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Ducati 324 2 Honda 255 3 Yamaha 251 4 Suzuki 207 5 Kawasaki 114

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

References