The 2013 FIM Moto3 World Championship was the lightweight class of the 65th Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) 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.
Season summary 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. 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. 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.
Calendar The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2013:
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released a 18-race provisional calendar on 19 September 2012. On 23 November 2012, the calendar was updated following confirmation that the return of the Argentine Grand Prix would be postponed to 2014. 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.
RoundDateGrand PrixCircuit 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 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
‡ = Night race †† = Saturday race
Calendar changes The Grand Prix of the Americas was added to the calendar. The Portuguese Grand Prix was taken off the calendar. The race was scheduled on the calendar since 2000. The British Grand Prix was moved back, from 17 June to 1 September. The Japanese Grand Prix was moved back, from 14 to 27 October.
Teams and riders A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 28 November 2012. An updated entry list was released on 12 February 2013. All teams used Dunlop tyres.
TeamConstructorMotorcycleRiderRounds Ongetta–Centro Seta Ongetta–Rivacold Bimbo–Ongetta–Centro Seta FTR Honda FTR M313 3 Matteo Ferrari All 10 Alexis Masbou All 32 Isaac Viñales All San Carlo Team Italia FTR Honda FTR M313 4 Francesco Bagnaia All 5 Romano Fenati All Estrella Galicia 0,0 KTM KTM RC250GP 6 María Herrera 13 12 Álex Márquez All 42 Álex Rins All Mahindra Racing Mahindra Mahindra MGP3O 7 Efrén Vázquez All 44 Miguel Oliveira All 55 Andrea Locatelli 5, 12 Caretta Technology – RTG FTR Honda FTR M313 8 Jack Miller All 17 John McPhee All Kiefer Racing Kalex KTM Kalex KTM 9 Toni Finsterbusch All 43 Luca Grünwald 15–16 66 Florian Alt Marc VDS Racing Team Kalex KTM Kalex KTM 11 Livio Loi 3–17 95 Jules Danilo 4, 10 GMT Racing FTR FTR M313 16 Andrea Migno 6, 10 ARC Suter Suter MMX3 18 Christophe Arciero 4 La Fonte TascaRacing Honda 19 Alessandro Tonucci 1–3 29 Hyuga Watanabe 1–3 FTR Honda FTR M313 19 Alessandro Tonucci 4–14 29 Hyuga Watanabe 4–17 80 Hafiq Azmi 15–17 Mahindra Spiel-Kiste Mahindra Mahindra MGP3O 21 Luca Amato 8 Ambrogio Racing Suter Honda Suter MMX3 21 Luca Amato 10–11 41 Brad Binder 1–11 95 Jules Danilo 8–9 99 Danny Webb 1–7 Mahindra Mahindra MGP3O 21 Luca Amato 12–17 41 Brad Binder 12–17 Team Calvo KTM KTM RC250GP 22 Ana Carrasco All 25 Maverick Viñales All GO&FUN Gresini Moto3 FTR Honda FTR M313 23 Niccolò Antonelli All 77 Lorenzo Baldassarri All Avant Tecno KTM KTM RC250GP 31 Niklas Ajo All Team Plus One & Endurance Honda Honda NSF250R 33 Sena Yamada 16 Racing Steps Foundation KRP KRP Honda KRP M3-02 37 Kyle Ryde 11 98 Wayne Ryan 11 Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM KTM RC250GP 39 Luis Salom All 61 Arthur Sissis All 63 Zulfahmi Khairuddin All Touchline–SIC–AJO 79 Aizat Malik 14 80 Hafiq Azmi 14 Barker-McVey Racing Honda Honda NSF250R 47 Callum Barker 15 MIR Racing Cuna de Campeones MIR Racing MIR Racing 49 Jorge Navarro 3 MIR Honda 17 Dutch Racing Team FTR Honda FTR M313 51 Bryan Schouten 7, 13 RW Racing GP Redox RW Racing GP Kalex KTM Kalex KTM 53 Jasper Iwema All 84 Jakub Kornfeil All Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3 Kalex KTM Kalex KTM 57 Eric Granado All 94 Jonas Folger All CIP Moto3 TSR Honda TSR3C 58 All 89 Alan Techer All Paddock TT Motion Events Tec Interwetten Moto3 Racing Interwetten Paddock Moto3 Kalex KTM Kalex KTM 65 Philipp Öttl All Racing Team Van Leeuwen EvL250 71 Thomas van Leeuwen 7 Bullet Racing Bullet Honda NSF250R 75 Lachlan Kavney 15 Thomas Sabo GP Team Honda Honda NSF250R 86 Kevin Hanus 3, 6, 8 Team Honda Asia Honda Honda NSF250R 91 Hiroki Ono 16 Minimoto Portomaggiore Honda Honda NSF250R 93 Michael Coletti 5 Twelve Racing FTR Honda FTR M313 97 Luca Marini 12Key Regular Rider Wildcard Rider Notes: — Livio Loi competed from the Spanish Grand Prix onwards, after reaching the age of 16 on 27 April which is the minimum age to compete in the championship.
Rider changes
Having originally signed a deal for 2013, Maverick Viñales decided to quit the Avintia Blusens team before the end of the 2012 season. Danny Webb moved from Mahindra Racing to World Wide Communication, which was known as Ambrogio Next Racing in 2012. Miguel Oliveira moved from Estrella Galicia 0,0 to Mahindra Racing.
Results and standings Grands Prix Round Grand Prix Pole position Fastest lap Winning rider Winning team 1 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix Luis Salom Jonas Folger Luis Salom Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM Report 2 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas Álex Rins Luis Salom Álex Rins KTM Report 3 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix Álex Rins Luis Salom Team Calvo KTM Report 4 French motorcycle Grand Prix Maverick Viñales Team Calvo KTM Report 5 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix Jonas Folger Miguel Oliveira Luis Salom Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM Report 6 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix Luis Salom Maverick Viñales Luis Salom Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM Report 7 Dutch TT Miguel Oliveira Miguel Oliveira Luis Salom Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM Report 8 German motorcycle Grand Prix Álex Rins Luis Salom Álex Rins Estrella Galicia 0,0 KTM Report 9 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix Álex Rins Maverick Viñales Álex Rins Estrella Galicia 0,0 KTM Report 10 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix Álex Rins Luis Salom Luis Salom Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM Report 11 British motorcycle Grand Prix Maverick Viñales Álex Rins Luis Salom Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM Report 12 Jonas Folger Álex Márquez Álex Rins Estrella Galicia 0,0 KTM Report 13 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix Álex Rins Philipp Öttl Álex Rins Estrella Galicia 0,0 KTM Report 14 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix Luis Salom Miguel Oliveira Luis Salom Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM Report 15 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix Luis Salom Álex Márquez Álex Rins Estrella Galicia 0,0 KTM Report 16 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix Álex Rins Álex Márquez Álex Márquez Estrella Galicia 0,0 KTM Report 17 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix Álex Rins Luis Salom Maverick Viñales Team Calvo KTM Report
Riders' standings Scoring system 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