The 2013 FIM Moto3 World Championship was a part of the 65th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. The riders' championship title was won by Team Calvo rider Maverick Viñales and runner up by Álex Rins from Estrella Galicia 0,0.
In Moto3, the championship was dominated by three Spanish riders, all riding KTM machinery. Like the premier class, there was a final race title decider between Ajo Motorsport's Luis Salom, Estrella Galicia 0,0's Álex Rins and Maverick Viñales of Team Calvo; if any rider of the three won the race, they finished as the champion, regardless of the other results. [1] After Salom crashed out early in the race, Rins and Viñales battled at the front, with Viñales ultimately coming out as the victor and champion, with Rins being passed for second place on the line by Jonas Folger. [2] [3] With Salom only making it back up to fourteenth, Rins finished as runner-up ahead of Salom. With every race won by a KTM rider – seven wins for Salom, six for Rins, three for Viñales and one for Álex Márquez, the teammate of Rins, at Motegi – the marque was comfortably the winners of the constructors' championship, scoring more than double the points of the next placed constructor, Kalex KTM. [4]
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2013: [5] [6] [7]
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released a 18-race provisional calendar on 19 September 2012. [8] [9] On 23 November 2012, the calendar was updated following confirmation that the return of the Argentine Grand Prix would be postponed to 2014. [10] [11] The Grand Prix of the Americas held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, United States, replaced the Portuguese Grand Prix, which had been run at Estoril since 2000. The United States hosted two races, the other being the Indianapolis Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Round | Grand Prix | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning rider | Winning team | Winning constructor | Report |
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1 | Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix [49] | Luis Salom | Jonas Folger | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
2 | Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas [50] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
3 | Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix [51] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Maverick Viñales | Team Calvo | KTM | Report |
4 | French motorcycle Grand Prix [52] | Maverick Viñales | Maverick Viñales | Maverick Viñales | Team Calvo | KTM | Report |
5 | Italian motorcycle Grand Prix [53] | Jonas Folger | Miguel Oliveira | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
6 | Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix [54] | Luis Salom | Maverick Viñales | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
7 | Dutch TT [55] | Miguel Oliveira | Miguel Oliveira | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
8 | German motorcycle Grand Prix [56] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
9 | Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix [57] | Álex Rins | Maverick Viñales | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
10 | Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix [58] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
11 | British motorcycle Grand Prix [59] | Maverick Viñales | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
12 | San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix [60] | Jonas Folger | Álex Márquez | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
13 | Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix [61] | Álex Rins | Philipp Öttl | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
14 | Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix [62] | Luis Salom | Miguel Oliveira | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
15 | Australian motorcycle Grand Prix [63] | Luis Salom | Álex Márquez | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
16 | Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix [64] | Álex Rins | Álex Márquez | Álex Márquez | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
17 | Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix [65] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Maverick Viñales | Team Calvo | KTM | Report |
Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
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Points | 25 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole |
Each constructor received the same number of points as their best placed rider in each race.
Pos | Constructor |
QAT |
AME |
SPA |
FRA |
ITA |
CAT |
NED |
GER |
INP |
CZE |
GBR |
RSM |
ARA |
MAL |
AUS |
JPN |
VAL |
Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | KTM | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 425 |
2 | Kalex KTM | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 191 |
3 | Mahindra | 7 | 5 | 8 | Ret | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 173 |
4 | FTR Honda | 14 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 151 |
5 | Suter Honda | 11 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 26 | 47 | ||||||
6 | TSR Honda | 21 | 16 | Ret | 22 | 20 | 13 | 18 | 19 | 13 | 19 | Ret | 17 | 28 | 21 | 25 | 14 | 23 | 8 |
Honda | 18 | 18 | 18 | 28 | 27 | Ret | DNQ | 23 | 0 | ||||||||||
MIR Honda | 22 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
FTR | 25 | 26 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Suter | 26 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
KRP Honda | 27 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Bullet | 30 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Bakker Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
MIR Racing | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Pos | Constructor |
QAT |
AME |
SPA |
FRA |
ITA |
CAT |
NED |
GER |
INP |
CZE |
GBR |
RSM |
ARA |
MAL |
AUS |
JPN |
VAL |
Pts |
With just one race left in the World Championship, five-point separate Salom, Viñales and Rins, so the winner of the Valencia GP will be crowned Moto3 World Champion 2013.
The weekend will also see two females line up on the Moto3 grid, as Team Calvo's regular entry Ana Carrasco is joined by wildcard Maria Herrera Muñoz with Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0,0.
El proyecto seguirá la próxima temporada con Rins y Márquez en el equipo, los dos últimos Campeones de España de 125GP y de Moto3.
The riders of the team La Fonte TascaRacing work hard to find the right feeling with their Honda FTR.
Caretta Technology's team is glad to introduce you the second rider after Tonucci: Hyuga Watanabe.
Lorenzo Baldassarri to join Niccolò Antonelli at Team Go & Fun Honda Gresini in Moto3 next year.
Two Japanese wildcards will join the field in the form of Team Plus One's Sena Yamada and Team Honda Asia's Hiroki Ono.
The 2013 FIM Moto3 World Championship was a part of the 65th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. The riders' championship title was won by Team Calvo rider Maverick Viñales and runner up by Álex Rins from Estrella Galicia 0,0.
In Moto3, the championship was dominated by three Spanish riders, all riding KTM machinery. Like the premier class, there was a final race title decider between Ajo Motorsport's Luis Salom, Estrella Galicia 0,0's Álex Rins and Maverick Viñales of Team Calvo; if any rider of the three won the race, they finished as the champion, regardless of the other results. [1] After Salom crashed out early in the race, Rins and Viñales battled at the front, with Viñales ultimately coming out as the victor and champion, with Rins being passed for second place on the line by Jonas Folger. [2] [3] With Salom only making it back up to fourteenth, Rins finished as runner-up ahead of Salom. With every race won by a KTM rider – seven wins for Salom, six for Rins, three for Viñales and one for Álex Márquez, the teammate of Rins, at Motegi – the marque was comfortably the winners of the constructors' championship, scoring more than double the points of the next placed constructor, Kalex KTM. [4]
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2013: [5] [6] [7]
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released a 18-race provisional calendar on 19 September 2012. [8] [9] On 23 November 2012, the calendar was updated following confirmation that the return of the Argentine Grand Prix would be postponed to 2014. [10] [11] The Grand Prix of the Americas held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, United States, replaced the Portuguese Grand Prix, which had been run at Estoril since 2000. The United States hosted two races, the other being the Indianapolis Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Round | Date | Grand Prix | Circuit |
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1 | 7 April ‡ | Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar | Losail International Circuit, Lusail |
2 | 21 April | Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas | Circuit of the Americas, Austin |
3 | 5 May | Gran Premio bwin de España | Circuito de Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera |
4 | 19 May | Monster Energy Grand Prix de France | Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans |
5 | 2 June | Gran Premio d'Italia TIM | Mugello Circuit, Scarperia e San Piero |
6 | 16 June | Gran Premi Aperol de Catalunya | Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló |
7 | 29 June †† | Iveco TT Assen | TT Circuit Assen, Assen |
8 | 14 July | eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland | Sachsenring, Hohenstein-Ernstthal |
9 | 18 August | Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix | Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway |
10 | 25 August | bwin Grand Prix České republiky | Brno Circuit, Brno |
11 | 1 September | Hertz British Grand Prix | Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone |
12 | 15 September | Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e Della Riviera di Rimini | Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico |
13 | 29 September | Gran Premio Iveco de Aragón | MotorLand Aragón, Alcañiz |
14 | 13 October | Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix | Sepang International Circuit, Sepang |
15 | 20 October | Tissot Australian Grand Prix | Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Phillip Island |
16 | 27 October | AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan | Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi |
17 | 10 November | Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana | Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia |
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Round | Grand Prix | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning rider | Winning team | Winning constructor | Report |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix [49] | Luis Salom | Jonas Folger | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
2 | Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas [50] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
3 | Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix [51] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Maverick Viñales | Team Calvo | KTM | Report |
4 | French motorcycle Grand Prix [52] | Maverick Viñales | Maverick Viñales | Maverick Viñales | Team Calvo | KTM | Report |
5 | Italian motorcycle Grand Prix [53] | Jonas Folger | Miguel Oliveira | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
6 | Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix [54] | Luis Salom | Maverick Viñales | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
7 | Dutch TT [55] | Miguel Oliveira | Miguel Oliveira | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
8 | German motorcycle Grand Prix [56] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
9 | Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix [57] | Álex Rins | Maverick Viñales | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
10 | Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix [58] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
11 | British motorcycle Grand Prix [59] | Maverick Viñales | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
12 | San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix [60] | Jonas Folger | Álex Márquez | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
13 | Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix [61] | Álex Rins | Philipp Öttl | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
14 | Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix [62] | Luis Salom | Miguel Oliveira | Luis Salom | Red Bull KTM Ajo | KTM | Report |
15 | Australian motorcycle Grand Prix [63] | Luis Salom | Álex Márquez | Álex Rins | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
16 | Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix [64] | Álex Rins | Álex Márquez | Álex Márquez | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | KTM | Report |
17 | Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix [65] | Álex Rins | Luis Salom | Maverick Viñales | Team Calvo | KTM | Report |
Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 25 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
|
Bold – Pole |
Each constructor received the same number of points as their best placed rider in each race.
Pos | Constructor |
QAT |
AME |
SPA |
FRA |
ITA |
CAT |
NED |
GER |
INP |
CZE |
GBR |
RSM |
ARA |
MAL |
AUS |
JPN |
VAL |
Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | KTM | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 425 |
2 | Kalex KTM | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 191 |
3 | Mahindra | 7 | 5 | 8 | Ret | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 173 |
4 | FTR Honda | 14 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 151 |
5 | Suter Honda | 11 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 26 | 47 | ||||||
6 | TSR Honda | 21 | 16 | Ret | 22 | 20 | 13 | 18 | 19 | 13 | 19 | Ret | 17 | 28 | 21 | 25 | 14 | 23 | 8 |
Honda | 18 | 18 | 18 | 28 | 27 | Ret | DNQ | 23 | 0 | ||||||||||
MIR Honda | 22 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
FTR | 25 | 26 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Suter | 26 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
KRP Honda | 27 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Bullet | 30 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Bakker Honda | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
MIR Racing | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
Pos | Constructor |
QAT |
AME |
SPA |
FRA |
ITA |
CAT |
NED |
GER |
INP |
CZE |
GBR |
RSM |
ARA |
MAL |
AUS |
JPN |
VAL |
Pts |
With just one race left in the World Championship, five-point separate Salom, Viñales and Rins, so the winner of the Valencia GP will be crowned Moto3 World Champion 2013.
The weekend will also see two females line up on the Moto3 grid, as Team Calvo's regular entry Ana Carrasco is joined by wildcard Maria Herrera Muñoz with Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0,0.
El proyecto seguirá la próxima temporada con Rins y Márquez en el equipo, los dos últimos Campeones de España de 125GP y de Moto3.
The riders of the team La Fonte TascaRacing work hard to find the right feeling with their Honda FTR.
Caretta Technology's team is glad to introduce you the second rider after Tonucci: Hyuga Watanabe.
Lorenzo Baldassarri to join Niccolò Antonelli at Team Go & Fun Honda Gresini in Moto3 next year.
Two Japanese wildcards will join the field in the form of Team Plus One's Sena Yamada and Team Honda Asia's Hiroki Ono.