2013 MotoGP World Championship
Appearance
The 2013 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season will be the 65th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.
Grands Prix
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released a 19-race provisional calendar on 19 September 2012.[1]
Notes:
- ^1 — Races held at night.
- ^2 — Races held on Saturday.
- ^3 — Only MotoGP race.
- ^† — Race subject to confirmation from event organisers.
MotoGP
Participants
Prototype entries | |||
---|---|---|---|
Constructor | Motorcycle | Team | Rider |
Ducati | Ducati Desmosedici GP13 | Ducati Team | Andrea Dovizioso[20] |
Nicky Hayden[21] | |||
Pramac Racing Team | Andrea Iannone[22] | ||
Ben Spies[22] | |||
Honda | Honda RC213V | Gresini Racing | TBA[23] |
LCR Honda MotoGP | Stefan Bradl[24] | ||
Repsol Honda Team | Marc Márquez[25] | ||
Dani Pedrosa[25] | |||
Yamaha | Yamaha YZR-M1 | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Cal Crutchlow[26] |
Bradley Smith[27] | |||
Yamaha Factory Racing | Jorge Lorenzo[28] | ||
Valentino Rossi[29] | |||
Claiming Rule Teams (CRT) entries | |||
ART-Aprilia | TBA | Cardion AB Motoracing | Karel Abraham[30] |
Ioda-Suter-BMW | TBA | IodaRacing Project | TBA[31] |
TBA | TBA | Power Electronics Aspar | Randy de Puniet[32] |
Aleix Espargaró[32] | |||
TBA | TBA | Avintia Blusens | TBA[33] |
TBA[33] | |||
TBA | TBA | Forward Racing | Colin Edwards[34] |
TBA | |||
TBA | TBA | Paul Bird Motorsport | TBA[35] |
TBA[35] |
Rider changes
- Héctor Barberá will leave Pramac Racing at the end of the 2012 season. When his departure was confirmed in September 2012, he had not secured a ride with any other team, but confirmed his intentions to race for team competing under Claiming Rule Teams regulations.[36]
- Andrea Dovizioso will replace Valentino Rossi at Ducati after spending one season as a Monster Yamaha Tech 3 semi-works rider.[20]
- Andrea Iannone will move up from Moto2 to MotoGP in 2013, joining Pramac Racing.[22]
- Marc Márquez will join the MotoGP category, racing for the Repsol Honda Team after rules preventing rookie riders from racing for factory teams were relaxed.[25]
- After two seasons racing for Ducati, Valentino Rossi will return to Yamaha.[29]
- Bradley Smith, who rode for Tech 3 in the Moto2 category in the 2010 and 2011 seasons will be promoted to the team's MotoGP squad, Monster Yamaha Tech 3.[27]
- In July 2012, Ben Spies announced that he would leave the Yamaha Factory Racing team at the end of the 2012 season.[37] He was later confirmed as switching to Ducati, joining Pramac Racing.[22]
- 2007 and 2011 MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner officially announced his retirement at the end of 2012 season.[25]
Team changes
- Cardion AB Motoracing will end its association with Ducati and will instead switch to a CRT-spec ART-Aprilia.[30]
- Paul Bird Motorsport will expand its operations to include a second bike.[35]
Moto2
Participants
Constructor | Motorcycle | Team | Rider |
---|---|---|---|
TBA | TBA | Aspar Racing Team | Nicolás Terol[38] |
TBA | |||
TBA | TBA | Forward Racing | Alex de Angelis[34] |
TBA | |||
TBA | TBA | Intact GP | Sandro Cortese[39] |
TBA | |||
TBA | TBA | Tech 3 Racing | Louis Rossi[40] |
Danny Kent[41] | |||
TBA | TBA | Technomag-CIP | Dominique Aegerter[42] |
Randy Krummenacher[42] |
Rider changes
- Sandro Cortese will move up from Moto3 to the newly-established Intact GP team, on a two-year deal.[39]
- Randy Krummenacher will switch from GP Team Switzerland to Technomag-CIP within Moto2 for 2013.[42]
- Louis Rossi will race on one of Tech 3 Racing's Moto2 bikes in 2013, having moved up from Moto3.[40]
Moto3
Participants
Constructor | Motorcycle | Team | Rider |
---|---|---|---|
TBA | TBA | Avintia Blusens | Maverick Viñales[43] |
TBA | TBA | Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3 | Jonas Folger[44] |
TBA | |||
TBA | TBA | World Wide Communication | Danny Webb[45] |
TBA | |||
KTM | TBA | Red Bull KTM Ajo | Louis Salom[46] |
TBA |
Rider changes
- Danny Webb will move from Mahindra Racing to World Wide Communication, which was known as Ambrogio Next Racing in 2012.[45]
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