India's first MotoGP World Championship entrant Sarath Kumar starts and finishes his first race after failing to qualify for the last two races. Sarath who improved a lot in his timings and went under the cut timing in FP3 had crash in the bizzare track conditions of the qualifying session and missed to get under the ace107% cut time to qualfy for the race. He and two others were later allowed by the stewards to participate in the race due to miserable track conditions were many riders crashed.

Sarath started the race in 31st place with a signboard saying "Namaste India" and in tamil saying "Vanakam India", managed to finish the race in 24th place 2laps behind the leader.

Sarath Kumar, 24th (41'28.969)
"I'm very happy to have completed my first race without crashing. It's been a bit tough and as I got lapped, I feared to be of obstruction to the riders topping the race. Knowing so, I wisely gave way to the riders that were approaching me and after I continued my race. This is just the beginning and from now on, I have to aim at better results. Anyway I would like to thank my team, my family, the friends, all the supporters, sponsors and in the end to greet my country. They have always been supporting me saying that I could have made it. So this is of great push and encouragement to me."