Turkish Grand Prix (motorcycle)

Circuit diagram of the Istanbul Park Circuit

The Turkish Grand Prix for Motorcycles was a motorcycle race that was held three times between 2005 and 2007 on the Istanbul Park Circuit in the Tuzla district in the Asian part of Istanbul and was part of the Motorcycle World Championship .

Record winners are the Italians Marco Melandri and Casey Stoner from Australia , who each won the race twice in different classes.

Statistics of the Turkish Grand Prix

Edition	year	route	class	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Nice Race lap
1	2005	Istanbul	125 cc	Mike Di Meglio ( Honda )	Mattia Pasini ( Aprilia )	Tomoyoshi Koyama ( Honda )	Thomas Lüthi ( Honda )	Thomas Lüthi ( Honda )
			250 cc	Casey Stoner ( Aprilia )	Dani Pedrosa ( Honda )	Hiroshi Aoyama ( Honda )	Alex De Angelis ( Aprilia )	Dani Pedrosa ( Honda )
			MotoGP	Marco Melandri ( Honda )	Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha )	Nicky Hayden ( Honda )	Sete Gibernau ( Honda )	Marco Melandri ( Honda )
2	2006	Istanbul	125 cc	Héctor Faubel ( Aprilia )	Álvaro Bautista ( Aprilia )	Sergio Gadea ( Aprilia )	Álvaro Bautista ( Aprilia )	Joan Olivé ( Aprilia )
			250 cc	Hiroshi Aoyama ( KTM )	Héctor Barberá ( Aprilia )	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )	Jorge Lorenzo ( Aprilia )	Alex De Angelis ( Aprilia )
			MotoGP	Marco Melandri ( Honda )	Casey Stoner ( Honda )	Nicky Hayden ( Honda )	Chris Vermeulen ( Suzuki )	Toni Elías ( Honda )
3	2007	Istanbul	125 cc	Simone Corsi ( Aprilia )	Joan Olivé ( Aprilia )	Tomoyoshi Koyama ( KTM )	Mattia Pasini ( Aprilia )	Raffaele De Rosa ( Aprilia )
			250 cc	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )	Jorge Lorenzo ( Aprilia )	Álvaro Bautista ( Aprilia )	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )	Andrea Dovizioso ( Honda )
			MotoGP	Casey Stoner ( Ducati )	Toni Elías ( Honda )	Loris Capirossi ( Ducati )	Valentino Rossi ( Yamaha )	Chris Vermeulen ( Suzuki )

References

Web links

• Official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (multilingual)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Officially, the number of editions was not met.