The 2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the nineteenth and final round of the
2018 MotoGP season
The 2018 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 70th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc Márquez entered the season as the reigning champion, with Repsol Honda being the reigning team champions and Honda th ...
. It was held at the
Circuit Ricardo Tormo in
Valencia on 18 November 2018.
In the Moto3 race,
Red Bull KTM Ajo wildcard
Can Öncü made history by winning on his debut, becoming the youngest ever Grand Prix winner at the age of 15 years, 115 days.
In the MotoGP class, no Yamaha or Honda rider finished on the podium for the first time since the
2007 San Marino Grand Prix.
In the Moto2 class, this was the final race for the
Honda CBR600RR inline-4 engine package and also the final race for the
Tech 3 Mistral 610 and
Suter MMX2 chassis packages that débuted at the
2010 Qatar Grand Prix, since a new 765cc (46.7 cu in) inline-3 engine supplied by
Triumph Motorcycles was introduced and Tech 3 and
Forward Racing switched manufacturers to
KTM and
MV Agusta
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respectively in
2019
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.
Classification
MotoGP
The race, scheduled to be run for 27 laps, was red-flagged after 13 full laps, as heavy rain had caused multiple riders to crash and racing conditions were deemed too dangerous. For the restart, the race distance was 14 laps.
* Xavier Siméon was declared unfit to start the race following two crashes in practice.
Moto2
Moto3
Championship standings after the race
*
Bold text indicates the World Champions.
MotoGP
Moto2
Moto3
Notes
References
{{MotoGP 2010–19
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