2014 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2014 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2014 MotoGP season. It was held at the Losail International Circuit in Doha on 23 March 2014.

  2014 Qatar Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 18 races in the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 March 2014
Official name	Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar[1]
Location	Losail International Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.380 km (3.343 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:54.507 Fastest lap Rider Álvaro Bautista Honda Time 1:55.575 on lap 4 Podium First Marc Márquez Honda Second Valentino Rossi Yamaha Third Dani Pedrosa Honda
Moto2
Pole position Rider Esteve Rabat Kalex Time 2:00.081 Fastest lap Rider Maverick Viñales Kalex Time 2:00.168 on lap 9 Podium First Esteve Rabat Kalex Second Mika Kallio Kalex Third Thomas Lüthi Suter
Moto3
Pole position Rider Álex Rins Honda Time 2:05.973 Fastest lap Rider Alexis Masbou Honda Time 2:05.862 on lap 9 Podium First Jack Miller KTM Second Álex Márquez Honda Third Efrén Vázquez Honda

In the MotoGP class, Marc Márquez began his title defence with a victory ahead of Valentino Rossi and teammate Dani Pedrosa. Rossi's teammate, Jorge Lorenzo led at the start but then crashed and had his bike destroyed in the gravel trap.

The MotoGP race also saw the début of the new "Factory" and "Open" classes for each bike. The MSMA prototypes were reclassified as the "Factory" class, and the Claiming Rule Teams sub-category was rebranded as the "Open" class. Bikes in the Open class used the same MotoGP ECU and identical software, and the teams that were in the Factory class were permitted to use their own software.

In the Moto2 race, Esteve Rabat began his title-winning season with a victory ahead of fellow Kalex rider Mika Kallio and Suter rider Thomas Lüthi. The fastest lap was set by Maverick Viñales in his first and only season in the Moto2 class.

The Moto3 race saw Jack Miller take the victory ahead of Spaniards Álex Márquez and Efrén Vázquez. Both Miller and Márquez would eventually fight for the title over the course of the season, with the latter eventually taking the title by two points.