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2016 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

motorcycle race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2023
Entity authorityQ24934010 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2016 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and last round of the 2016 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 13 November 2016.

The MotoGP class race saw the début of the KTM RC16, in preparation for its full season début in 2017.

Classification

MotoGP

Moto2

Moto3

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eighteen has concluded.

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2016 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix” as motorcycle race. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Valencian, Community and motorcycle can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as motorcycle race. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q24934010. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.