2017 French motorcycle Grand Prix

  2017 French Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 18 races in the 2017 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	May 21, 2017
Official name	HJC Helmets Grand Prix de France
Location	Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans, France
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.185 km (2.600 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Maverick Viñales Yamaha Time 1:31.994 Fastest lap Rider Maverick Viñales Yamaha Time 1:32.309 on lap 28 Podium First Maverick Viñales Honda Second Johann Zarco Yamaha Third Dani Pedrosa Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Thomas Lüthi Kalex Time 1:36.548 Fastest lap Rider Franco Morbidelli Kalex Time 1:36.836 on lap 21 Podium First Franco Morbidelli Kalex Second Francesco Bagnaia Kalex Third Thomas Lüthi Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Jorge Martín Honda Time 1:42.813 Fastest lap Rider Joan Mir Honda Time 1:42.485 on lap 3 Podium First Joan Mir Honda Second Arón Canet Honda Third Fabio Di Giannantonio Honda

The 2017 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2017 MotoGP season. It was held at the Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans on May 21, 2017. Yamaha riders clean sweep the front row of the grid since the 2008 Qatar Grand Prix. Johann Zarco scored his first podium finish and became the first French rider in the MotoGP class to stand on the podium since Randy de Puniet in the 2009 British Grand Prix.

Classification

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	25	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	28	43:29.793	1	25
2	5	Johann Zarco	Yamaha	28	+3.134	3	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	28	+7.717	13	16
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	28	+11.223	6	13
5	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	28	+13.519	4	11
6	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	28	+24.002	16	10
7	94	Jonas Folger	Yamaha	28	+25.733	15	9
8	43	Jack Miller	Honda	28	+32.603	11	8
9	76	Loris Baz	Ducati	28	+45.784	12	7
10	29	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	28	+48.332	17	6
11	53	Esteve Rabat	Honda	28	+50.036	22	5
12	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	28	+52.661	8	4
13	38	Bradley Smith	KTM	28	+53.179	10	3
14	22	Sam Lowes	Aprilia	28	+55.432	21	2
15	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	28	+1:06.878	23	1
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	27	Accident	2
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	23	Engine	18
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	17	Accident	5
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	17	Oil Leak	19
Ret	45	Scott Redding	Ducati	7	Gearshift	7
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	5	Retired	9
Ret	8	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	3	Retired	20
Ret	19	Álvaro Bautista	Ducati	0	Accident	14
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	26	42:17.557	3	25
2	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	26	+1.714	2	20
3	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	26	+5.837	1	16
4	73	Álex Márquez	Kalex	26	+6.212	6	13
5	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	26	+13.537	7	11
6	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	26	+14.945	5	10
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	26	+16.413	18	9
8	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	26	+16.681	14	8
9	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	26	+17.163	11	7
10	68	Yonny Hernández	Kalex	26	+17.605	13	6
11	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	26	+22.528	22	5
12	23	Marcel Schrötter	Suter	26	+22.909	9	4
13	88	Ricard Cardús	KTM	26	+23.801	15	3
14	11	Sandro Cortese	Suter	26	+24.322	10	2
15	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	26	+25.959	16	1
16	19	Xavier Siméon	Kalex	26	+26.116	12
17	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	26	+26.394	17
18	40	Fabio Quartararo	Kalex	26	+26.846	20
19	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	26	+28.506	26
20	87	Remy Gardner	Tech 3	26	+48.794	23
21	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	26	+49.354	27
22	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	26	+49.680	31
23	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	26	+49.913	25
24	47	Axel Bassani	Speed Up	26	+1:03.235	28
25	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	26	+1:03.801	30
Ret	32	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	25	Retired	19
Ret	6	Tarran Mackenzie	Suter	21	Accident	29
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	17	Handling	8
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	8	Accident Damage	21
Ret	62	Stefano Manzi	Kalex	7	Accident	24
Ret	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	0	Accident	4
DNS	27	Iker Lecuona	Kalex		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 REPORT

Moto3

The race, scheduled to be run for 24 laps, was red-flagged due to oil being spilled onto the track resulting to a multiple rider crash in turn 4. The race was later restarted over 16 laps.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Joan Mir	Honda	16	27:37.830	8	25
2	44	Arón Canet	Honda	16	+4.252	12	20
3	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Honda	16	+4.365	15	16
4	42	Marcos Ramírez	KTM	16	+4.469	7	13
5	58	Juan Francisco Guevara	KTM	16	+4.845	3	11
6	33	Enea Bastianini	Honda	16	+5.463	11	10
7	95	Jules Danilo	Honda	16	+5.652	16	9
8	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	16	+5.821	23	8
9	64	Bo Bendsneyder	KTM	16	+6.049	9	7
10	52	Danny Kent	KTM	16	+6.193	10	'6
11	84	Jakub Kornfeil	Peugeot	16	+7.504	18	5
12	17	John McPhee	Honda	16	+8.741	25	4
13	41	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	Honda	16	+16.006	30	3
14	48	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Mahindra	16	+16.405	20	2
15	12	Marco Bezzecchi	Mahindra	16	+16.514	21	1
16	11	Livio Loi	Honda	16	+16.639	13
17	8	Nicolò Bulega	KTM	16	+16.752	2
18	96	Manuel Pagliani	Mahindra	16	+16.996	14
19	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Honda	16	+17.046	27
20	6	María Herrera	KTM	16	+17.206	29
21	65	Philipp Öttl	KTM	16	+28.501	28
22	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	16	+33.398	24
23	4	Patrik Pulkkinen	Peugeot	16	+42.059	31
Ret	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	15	Accident	17
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	14	Accident	22
Ret	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	14	Accident	26
Ret	23	Niccolò Antonelli	KTM	11	Accident	6
Ret	88	Jorge Martín	Honda	10	Retired	1
Ret	5	Romano Fenati	Honda	7	Accident	4
Ret	75	Albert Arenas	Mahindra	3	Accident	5
DNS	7	Adam Norrodin	Honda	0	Did not restart	19
DNS	19	Gabriel Rodrigo	KTM		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 REPORT

Championship standings after the race

MotoGP Pos. Rider Points 1 Maverick Viñales 85 2 Dani Pedrosa 68 3 Valentino Rossi 62 4 Marc Márquez 58 5 Johann Zarco 55 6 Andrea Dovizioso 54 7 Cal Crutchlow 40 8 Jorge Lorenzo 38 9 Jonas Folger 38 10 Jack Miller 29

Moto2 Pos. Rider Points 1 Franco Morbidelli 100 2 Thomas Lüthi 80 3 Álex Márquez 62 4 Miguel Oliveira 59 5 Francesco Bagnaia 53 6 Takaaki Nakagami 41 7 Dominique Aegerter 37 8 Xavi Vierge 32 9 Luca Marini 31 10 Simone Corsi 27

Moto3 Pos. Rider Points 1 Joan Mir 99 2 Romano Fenati 65 3 Arón Canet 63 4 Jorge Martín 59 5 John McPhee 53 6 Fabio Di Giannantonio 51 7 Andrea Migno 43 8 Marcos Ramírez 36 9 Juan Francisco Guevara 34 10 Enea Bastianini 31

References

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved May 24, 2017.