AUSTIN AMERICAS 13 APRIL 2014 02 www.bridgestonemotorsport.com BRIDGESTONE TYRES TAME THE TURNS IN TEXAS After a successful debut event makes the circuit a real challenge for the rear. With front-end feel important through last year, MotoGP™ returns to riders and tyres. the faster sections of the track, the front the Circuit of The Americas in Overall, the layout of the COTA places slick options for this circuit – the soft and Austin, Texas with legions of similar loads on both shoulders of the medium compounds – are selected for the American fans set to be thrilled tyres, yet the presence of several high best combination of grip and stability. after an intense season opener speed right-hand corners means that at Qatar. asymmetric rear slicks with slightly harder ELEVATION CHANGES The Circuit of the Americas packs every rubber on the right shoulders are offered AND THE COMBINATION type of corner into its 5.515 kilometres, for this circuit. Open class and Ducati OF SLOW AND FAST making it one of the more technical riders will be offered the soft and medium CORNERS MAKES COTA venues on the calendar. Elevation changes, compound asymmetric rear slicks, while A REAL CHALLENGE the longest straight in MotoGP, and a the Factory Honda and Yamaha riders can FOR THE RIDERS combination of slow and fast corners utilise the medium and hard compound AND TYRES CIRCUIT KEY 11 S2 GRAND PRIX 01 : CORNER NUMBER TIME S : SPEED TRAP INFORMATION S1 : SECTOR 1 SCHEDULE SHOWING RACE LOCAL TIME (GMT -5) S2 : SECTOR 2 S CIRCUIT 08 10 S3 : SECTOR 3 FRIDAY - 11 APRIL First race 2013 12 09 Moto3 FP1 09:00 - 09:40 No. of GPs held 1 15 06 07 MotoGP FP1 09:55 - 10:40 Laps 13 S1 Moto2 FP1 10:55 - 11:40 21 (MotoGP) 19 (Moto2) 18 (Moto3) S3 14 05 19 04 Moto3 FP2 13:10 - 13:50 Track length 16 MotoGP FP2 14:05 - 14:50 5.513km / 3.426 miles (Width 15m) 03 18 17 20 Moto2 FP2 15:05 - 15:50 Race distance 115.773km / 71.938 miles (21 Laps) 02 Longest straight SATURDAY - 12 APRIL 1,200m / 0.746 miles Moto3 FP3 09:00 - 09:40 Corners MotoGP FP3 09:55 - 10:40 20 (11 left, 9 right) 01 Moto2 FP3 10:55 - 11:40 Moto3 QP 12:35 - 13:15 MotoGP FP4 13:30 - 14:00 RECORDS SLICK TYRE MotoGP Q1 14:10 - 14:25 COMPOUNDS TYRE SEVERITY Pole position MotoGP Q2 14:35 - 14:50 2m 03.021s (161.3Km/h) EXTRA SOFT MEDIUM HARD RATING EXTRASOFT SOFT MEDIUM HARD Moto2 QP 15:05 - 15:50 Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013) SOFT C C Fastest lap L R L R 2m 04.242s (159.7Km/h) SUNDAY - 13 APRIL AUSTIN - FRONT SLICKS Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013) Moto3 WUP 08:40 - 09:00 EXTRA SOFT MEDIUM HARD Race time SOFT Moto2 WUP 09:10 - 09:30 43m 42.123s (158.9Km/h) FRONT REAR MotoGP WUP 09:40 - 10:00 Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013) Moto3 RACE 11:00 2013 Winner AUSTIN - REAR SLICKS Moto2 RACE 12:20 Marc Marquez (Honda) EXTRA SOFT MEDIUM HARD MotoGP RACE 14:00 SOFT < MILD SEVERE > SECTION OF TYRE : SOURCE : www.motogp.com L : LEFT / C : CENTRE / R : RIGHT INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE TYRE TALK WITH This year will be our second visit to Austin’s open sections. These features combine corners. The fast right-hand corners are Circuit of the Americas and the impressive to place a great importance on front-end quite severe on tyres, so at this circuit we SHINJI layout of this track presents quite a feel, as maintaining good corner speed is provide asymmetric rear slicks with slightly AOKI challenge for tyre development. COTA important here. Therefore our front tyres harder rubber on the right shoulder. is run in a counter-clockwise direction need to provide good grip characteristics Manager, Bridgestone and the track is technical with a mix of with plenty of stability. The rear tyres must Motorsport Tyre Development Division tight, slower corners and faster, more also provide good drive out of the slower TEAMS & RIDERS *MOST RECENT PERFORMANCE LISTED REPSOL HONDA TEAM MOVISTAR YAMAHA MOTOGP GO & FUN HONDA GRESINI HONDA RC213V YAMAHA YZR-M1 HONDA RC213V / RCV1000R MARC MARQUEZ #93 JORGE LORENZO #99 ALVARO BAUTISTA #19 DOB: 17/2/1993 Wins: 7 DOB: 4/5/1987 Wins: 31 DOB: 21/11/1984 Wins: 0 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 10 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 29 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 1 GP Debut: QAT13 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 11 GP Debut: QAT08 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 18 GP Debut: QAT10 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 1 GP Starts: 19 (MotoGP) Podiums: 17 GP Starts: 103 (MotoGP) Podiums: 74 GP Starts: 69 (MotoGP) Podiums: 2 Best Championship Pos: 1st (2013) Points: 359 Best Championship Pos: 1st (x2, 2012*) Points: 1774 Best Championship Pos: 5th (2012) Points: 501 DANI PEDROSA #26 VALENTINO ROSSI #46 SCOTT REDDING #45 DOB: 29/9/1985 Wins: 25 DOB: 16/2/1979 Wins: 80 DOB: 4/1/1993 Wins: 0 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 26 Nationality: Italian Poles: 49 Nationality: British Poles: 0 GP Debut: SPA06 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 39 GP Debut: RSA00 (500cc) Fastest laps: 68 GP Debut: QAT14 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Starts: 133 (MotoGP) Podiums: 85 GP Starts: 235 (MotoGP/500cc) Podiums: 148 GP Starts: 1 Podiums: 0 Best Championship Pos: 2nd (2012*) Points: 2052 Best Championship Pos: 1st (x7, 2009*) Points: 3843 Best Championship Pos: NA Points: 9 DRIVE M7 ASPAR DUCATI TEAM MONSTER YAMAHA TECH 3 HONDA RCV1000R DUCATI DESMOSEDICI YAMAHA YZR-M1 NICKY HAYDEN #69 ANDREA DOVIZIOSO #4 BRADLEY SMITH #38 DOB: 30/7/1981 Wins: 3 DOB: 23/3/1986 Wins: 1 DOB: 28/11/1990 Wins: 0 Nationality: American Poles: 5 Nationality: Italian Poles: 1 Nationality: British Poles: 0 GP Debut: JPN03 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 7 GP Debut: QAT08 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 2 GP Debut: QAT13 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Starts: 186 (MotoGP) Podiums: 28 GP Starts: 107 (MotoGP) Podiums: 22 GP Starts: 19 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Best championship pos: 1st (x1, 2006) Points: 1629 Best championship pos: 3rd (2011) Points: 1137 Best Championship Pos: 10th (2013) Points: 116 HIROSHI AOYAMA #7 CAL CRUTCHLOW #35 POL ESPARGARO #44 DOB: 25/10/1981 Wins: 0 DOB: 29/10/1985 Wins: 0 DOB: 4/1/1993 Wins: 0 Nationality: Japanese Poles: 0 Nationality: British Poles: 2 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 0 GP Debut: QAT10 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT11 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 1 GP Debut: QAT14 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Starts: 47 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 53 (MotoGP) Podiums: 6 GP Starts: 1 Podiums: 0 Best championship pos: 10th (2011) Points: 172 Best championship pos: 5th (2013) Points: 419 Best Championship Pos: NA Points: 0 CARDION AB MOTORACING LCR HONDA MOTOGP IODARACING PROJECT HONDA RCV1000R HONDA RC213V ART KAREL ABRAHAM #17 STEFAN BRADL #6 DANILO PETRUCCI #9 DOB: 02/01/1990 Wins: 0 DOB: 29/11/1989 Wins: 0 DOB: 24/10/1990 Wins: 0 Nationality: Czech Poles: 0 Nationality: German Poles: 1 Nationality: Italian Poles: 0 GP Debut: QAT11 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT12 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT12 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Starts: 40 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 35 (MotoGP) Podiums: 1 GP Starts: 36 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Best championship pos: 14th (2012*) Points: 131 Best championship pos: 7th (2013) Points: 291 Best championship pos: 17th (2013) Points: 55 NGM MOBILE FORWARD RACING PRAMAC RACING FORWARD YAMAHA DUCATI DESMOSEDICI RESULTS ON COLIN EDWARDS #5 ANDREA IANNONE #29 BRIDGESTONE TYRES DOB: 27/2/1974 Wins: 0 DOB: 9/8/1989 Wins: 0 RIDER TITLES WIN 2ND 3RD PODIUM POLE Nationality: American Poles: 3 Nationality: Italian Poles: 0 GP Debut: JPN03 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 3 GP Debut: QAT13 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 Casey Stoner 2 38 10 20 68 38 GP Starts: 187 (MotoGP) Podiums: 12 GP Starts: 17 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Jorge Lorenzo 2 30 27 11 68 24 Best championship pos: 4th (2005) Points: 1238 Best championship pos: 12th (2013) Points: 63 Valentino Rossi 2 18 16 15 49 10 Dani Pedrosa - 19 25 17 61 16 ALEIX ESPARGARO #41 YONNY HERNANDEZ #68 Marc Marquez 1 7 6 4 17 10 Loris Capirossi - 6 7 4 17 5 DOB: 30/7/1989 Wins: 0 DOB: 25/7/1988 Wins: 0 Makoto Tamada - 2 1 1 4 3 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 0 Nationality: Columbian Poles: 0 Andrea Dovizioso - 1 7 14 22 1 GP Debut: INP09 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT12 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 Chris Vermeulen - 1 3 3 7 3 GP Starts: 59 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 34 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Ben Spies - 1 2 3 6 1 Best championship pos: 11th (2013) Points: 261 Best championship pos: 17th (2012) Points: 53 Troy Bayliss - 1 - - 1 - Marco Melandri - - 3 1 4 - Cal Crutchlow - - 2 4 6 2 Toni Elias - - 2 3 5 - John Hopkins - - 1 3 4 1 AVINTIA RACING PAUL BIRD MOTORSPORT Marco Simoncelli - - 1 1 2 2 AVINTIA PBM Colin Edwards - - 1 1 2 - Shinya Nakano - - 1 1 2 - HECTOR BARBERA #8 MICHAEL LAVERTY #70 Randy de Puniet - - 1 1 2 - DOB: 2/11/1986 Wins: 0 DOB: 7/6/1981 Wins: 0 Stefan Bradl - - 1 - 1 1 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 0 Nationality: British Poles: 0 Kenny Roberts Jr - - 1 - 1 1 GP Debut: QAT10 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT13 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 Alex de Angelis - - 1 - 1 - GP Starts: 68 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 19 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Katsuyuki Nakasuga - - 1 - 1 - Best championship pos: 11th (2011) Points: 290 Best championship pos: 25th (2013) Points: 3 Oliver Jacque - - 1 - 1 - Nicky Hayden - - - 3 3 - Alvaro Bautista - - - 2 2 1 MIKE DE MEGLIO #63 BROC PARKES #23 Carlos Checa - - - 2 2 - DOB: 17/1/1988 Wins: 0 DOB: 4/8/1986 Wins: 0 Alex Barros - - - 1 1 - Nationality: French Poles: 0 Nationality: Australian Poles: 0 Jeremy McWilliams - - - - - 1 GP Debut: QAT14 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT14 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 Sete Gibernau - - - - - 1 GP Starts: 1 Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 1 Podiums: 0 Championship pos: NA Points: 0 Best championship pos: NA Points: 1 TOTAL 7 124 121 114 359 121 A record of every pole position, win, podium and World Championship