2015 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup

The 2015 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup was the ninth season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. After the selection event held from 14 to 16 October 2014 at Circuito Guadix in Spain and pre-season testing, held in April 2015 in Aragon, the season began at Jerez on 2 May and ended on 27 September at the Ciudad del Motor de Aragón after 13 races.^[1] The races, for the third year contested by the riders on equal KTM 250cc 4-stroke Moto3 bikes, were held at seven meetings on the Grand Prix motorcycle racing calendar.

Dutch rider Bo Bendsneyder won the championship, securing the title after the Misano race.^[2] Bendsneyder started the season with five successive victories, establishing a healthy championship lead. Ultimately, Bendsneyder won eight races during the season, and only finished off the podium on three occasions. Bendsneyder won the championship by 49 points ahead of Italy's Fabio Di Giannantonio, who was a three-time race winner at the Sachsenring, Brno and Aragon. Third place in the championship was decided in the final Aragon race between Silverstone winner Ayumu Sasaki, Marc García – who won the weekend's opening race – and Óscar Gutiérrez. Sasaki finished second to Di Giannantonio in the race to seal third in the championship, while García's fifth place to an eighth place for Gutiérrez ensured fourth in the final standings.

2015 calendar[1]
Round	Date	Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Race winner	Sources
1	2 May	Jerez	Bo Bendsneyder	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Bo Bendsneyder	[3]
	3 May			Enzo Boulom	Bo Bendsneyder	[4]
2	26 June	Assen	Bo Bendsneyder	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Bo Bendsneyder	[5]
	27 June			Bo Bendsneyder	Bo Bendsneyder	[6]
3	11 July	Sachsenring	Óscar Gutiérrez	Bo Bendsneyder	Bo Bendsneyder	[7]
	12 July			Fabio Di Giannantonio	Fabio Di Giannantonio	[8]
4	15 August	Brno	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Marc García	Fabio Di Giannantonio	[9]
	16 August			Ayumu Sasaki	Bo Bendsneyder	[10]
5	29 August	Silverstone	Bo Bendsneyder	Raúl Fernández	Bo Bendsneyder	[11]
	30 August			Ayumu Sasaki	Ayumu Sasaki	[12]
6	12 September	Misano	Bo Bendsneyder	Marc García	Bo Bendsneyder	[13]
7	26 September	Aragon	Rory Skinner	Raúl Fernández	Marc García	[14]
	27 September			Fabio Di Giannantonio	Fabio Di Giannantonio	[15]

2015 entry list[1]
No.	Rider	Rounds
4	Patrik Pulkkinen	All
9	Robert Schotman	All
13	Martin Gbelec	2–7
14	Bruno Ieraci	1–4, 6–7
16	Emanuel Aguilar	All
19	Rufino Florido	All
20	Omar Bonoli	All
21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	All
22	Mykyta Kalinin	All
23	Raúl Fernández	All
27	Mattia Casadei	All
29	Gabriel Hernandez	All
37	Walid Soppe	All
41	Marc García	All
44	Martin Vugrinec	All
45	Olly Simpson	All
64	Bo Bendsneyder	All
67	Kaito Toba	All
69	Rory Skinner	All
71	Ayumu Sasaki	All
76	Makar Yurchenko	All
81	Aleix Viu	All
96	Óscar Gutiérrez	All
99	Enzo Boulom	All

Points were awarded to the top fifteen riders, provided the rider finished the race.

Pos. Rider JER ASS SAC BRN SIL MIS ARA Pts 1 Bo Bendsneyder 1 1 1 1 1 Ret 2 1 1 3 1 DNS 9 243 2 Fabio Di Giannantonio 5 2 2 2 4 1 1 Ret 2 11 Ret 6 1 194 3 Ayumu Sasaki 6 Ret 6 6 2 Ret 6 5 3 1 3 4 2 161 4 Marc García 9 8 5 5 3 2 4 3 Ret Ret 4 1 5 151 5 Óscar Gutiérrez 2 6 3 3 5 DNS 5 2 5 5 10 8 8 148 6 Enzo Boulom 8 5 4 4 9 6 8 4 6 2 7 DNS 10 128 7 Raúl Fernández 16 16 9 7 12 4 3 7 4 DNS 2 2 6 121 8 Olly Simpson 3 3 Ret DNS 8 5 17 Ret 7 Ret 6 15 4 84 9 Kaito Toba 4 9 10 Ret 7 3 7 6 Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 79 10 Rory Skinner 17 17 15 14 18 11 Ret 14 10 4 16 3 3 61 11 Robert Schotman 10 13 Ret 10 11 9 10 13 12 9 9 14 11 61 12 Rufino Florido 7 4 7 17 Ret Ret 16 8 Ret Ret Ret 5 7 59 13 Aleix Viu 13 11 8 20 6 7 11 9 19 Ret 5 DNS DNS 58 14 Mattia Casadei Ret 10 14 Ret 14 8 9 Ret 9 8 8 12 16 52 15 Makar Yurchenko 14 14 11 9 10 15 Ret Ret 8 6 14 17 12 47 16 Walid Soppe 11 7 Ret 13 17 Ret 13 10 11 7 15 Ret 20 41 17 Martin Gbelec Ret 11 13 17 14 11 Ret 10 11 9 13 36 18 Bruno Ieraci 12 12 13 8 Ret 10 DNS DNS 12 DNS 15 30 19 Patrik Pulkkinen 15 19 12 12 16 13 12 Ret 15 13 17 10 14 28 20 Omar Bonoli Ret 15 Ret 15 15 12 15 12 14 Ret 13 11 17 22 21 Martin Vugrinec Ret 20 18 Ret 22 14 19 15 13 12 21 13 Ret 13 Mykyta Kalinin 19 Ret 17 18 21 Ret 18 16 18 Ret 20 16 18 0 Gabriel Hernandez 18 18 Ret 16 20 16 Ret 18 17 Ret 18 Ret Ret 0 Emanuel Aguilar Ret Ret 16 19 19 18 20 17 16 Ret 19 18 19 0 Pos. Rider JER ASS SAC BRN SIL MIS ARA Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap Source:[16]

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