2009 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix

  2009 Malaysian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 17 races in the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	25 October 2009
Official name	Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle GP
Location	Sepang International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.548 km (3.447 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Time 2:00.518 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 2:13.694 Podium First Casey Stoner Second Dani Pedrosa Third Valentino Rossi
250 cc
Pole position Rider Hiroshi Aoyama Time 2:06.767 Fastest lap Rider Hiroshi Aoyama Time 2:07.597 Podium First Hiroshi Aoyama Second Héctor Barberá Third Marco Simoncelli
125 cc
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Time 2:13.756 Fastest lap Rider Bradley Smith Time 2:14.068 Podium First Julián Simón Second Bradley Smith Third Pol Espargaró

The 2009 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 23–25 October 2009 at the Sepang International Circuit. In wet conditions the race was dominated by Casey Stoner in a return to form following a mystery illness which ended his hopes of regaining the world championship title.^[1] Valentino Rossi finished third, which clinched the 2009 MotoGP championship for him.^[2]

MotoGP classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	27	Casey Stoner	Ducati	21	47:24.834	4	25
2	3	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	21	+14.666	3	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	21	+19.385	1	16
4	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	21	+25.850	2	13
5	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	21	+38.705	7	11
6	7	Chris Vermeulen	Suzuki	21	+41.061	14	10
7	24	Toni Elías	Honda	21	+48.555	6	9
8	33	Marco Melandri	Kawasaki	21	+55.557	15	8
9	65	Loris Capirossi	Suzuki	21	+1:00.303	5	7
10	36	Mika Kallio	Ducati	21	+1:00.440	12	6
11	44	Aleix Espargaró	Ducati	21	+1:01.655	13	5
12	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	21	+1:01.847	10	4
13	5	Colin Edwards	Yamaha	21	+1:10.778	9	3
14	41	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	21	+1:15.851	17	2
15	52	James Toseland	Yamaha	21	+1:50.672	16	1
Ret	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	14	Accident	11
Ret	14	Randy de Puniet	Honda	1	Accident	8

250 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	20	42:55.689	1	25
2	40	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	20	+6.397*	4	20
3	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	20	+6.397*	8	16
4	12	Thomas Lüthi	Aprilia	20	+14.871	9	13
5	55	Héctor Faubel	Honda	20	+19.177	7	11
6	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Honda	20	+19.567	6	10
7	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	20	+20.255	11	9
8	52	Lukáš Pešek	Aprilia	20	+34.561	17	8
9	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	20	+50.937	14	7
10	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	20	+1:04.186	19	6
11	11	Balázs Németh	Aprilia	20	+1:08.917	20	5
12	17	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	20	+1:10.616	15	4
13	53	Valentin Debise	Honda	20	+1:17.945	22	3
14	8	Bastien Chesaux	Aprilia	20	+1:29.669	21	2
15	56	Vladimir Leonov	Aprilia	20	+1:43.536	23	1
16	48	Shoya Tomizawa	Honda	19	+1 Lap	16
Ret	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Honda	16	Retirement	10
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	11	Retirement	2
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	11	Retirement	12
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	8	Retirement	3
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	6	Retirement	5
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Gilera	5	Accident	13
Ret	7	Axel Pons	Aprilia	2	Accident	18
Ret	10	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	1	Retirement	24

* Barberá awarded 2nd due to having a faster personal best lap time.

125 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	60	Julián Simón	Aprilia	19	42:50.916	2	25
2	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	19	+1.114	3	20
3	44	Pol Espargaró	Derbi	19	+6.293	11	16
4	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	19	+8.003	18	13
5	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	19	+8.485	5	11
6	11	Sandro Cortese	Derbi	19	+10.188	4	10
7	12	Esteve Rabat	Aprilia	19	+15.114	6	9
8	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	19	+22.151	13	8
9	6	Joan Olivé	Derbi	19	+26.388	7	7
10	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	19	+27.113	14	6
11	73	Takaaki Nakagami	Aprilia	19	+27.859	15	5
12	88	Michael Ranseder	Aprilia	19	+34.838	23	4
13	35	Randy Krummenacher	Aprilia	19	+41.829	12	3
14	77	Dominique Aegerter	Derbi	19	+42.433	21	2
15	39	Luis Salom	Aprilia	19	+51.635	20	1
16	28	Elly Ilias	Aprilia	19	+59.854	25
17	16	Cameron Beaubier	KTM	19	+1:07.131	24
18	53	Jasper Iwema	Honda	19	+1:14.171	27
19	21	Jakub Kornfeil	Loncin	19	+1:27.651	28
20	23	Muhammad Zulfahmi	Yamaha	19	+1:58.779	30
21	47	Blake Leigh-Smith	Honda	19	+2:06.062	29
22	19	Quentin Jacquet	Aprilia	18	+1 Lap	33
Ret	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	17	Accident	16
Ret	14	Johann Zarco	Aprilia	17	Accident	22
Ret	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	17	Retirement	9
Ret	87	Luca Marconi	Aprilia	14	Retirement	31
Ret	10	Luca Vitali	Aprilia	13	Retirement	32
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	KTM	12	Retirement	1
Ret	45	Scott Redding	Aprilia	10	Retirement	17
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	10	Retirement	10
Ret	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Loncin	2	Retirement	26
Ret	17	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	0	Accident	19
Ret	99	Danny Webb	Aprilia	0	Accident	8

References

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 2009-10-25.