2020 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2020 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the first round of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship. It was held at the Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto in Jerez de la Frontera on 19 July 2020. It was initially scheduled to be held on 3 May but was moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  2020 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 2 of 15 races in the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	19 July 2020
Official name	Gran Premio Red Bull de España
Location	Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.423 km (2.748 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Fabio Quartararo Yamaha Time 1:36.705 Fastest lap Rider Marc Márquez Honda Time 1:38.372 on lap 11 Podium First Fabio Quartararo Yamaha Second Maverick Viñales Yamaha Third Andrea Dovizioso Ducati
Moto2
Pole position Rider Jorge Martín Kalex Time 1:41.384 Fastest lap Rider Tetsuta Nagashima Kalex Time 1:41.995 on lap 11 Podium First Luca Marini Kalex Second Tetsuta Nagashima Kalex Third Jorge Martín Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Tatsuki Suzuki Honda Time 1:45.465 Fastest lap Rider Sergio García Honda Time 1:46.165 on lap 2 Podium First Albert Arenas KTM Second Ai Ogura Honda Third Tony Arbolino Honda
MotoE
Pole position Rider Eric Granado Energica Time 1:48.620 Fastest lap Rider Eric Granado Energica Time 1:47.656 on lap 2 Podium First Eric Granado Energica Second Matteo Ferrari Energica Third Dominique Aegerter Energica

Fabio Quartararo took his first victory in the premier class, the first for a French rider since Regis Laconi at the 1999 Valencian Grand Prix, the first for a Yamaha satellite team, as well as the first non-Honda satellite rider to win a Grand Prix.

Background

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

See also: 2020 MotoGP season § Calendar changes as a reaction to COVID-19 pandemic, and COVID-19 pandemic in Spain

The originally scheduled calendar for the 2020 championship was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Several Grands Prix were cancelled or postponed after the aborted opening round in Qatar, prompting the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme to draft a new calendar. The start of the championship was delayed until 19 July, with the Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto hosting the Spanish Grand Prix as the opening round of the championship. Organisers of the race signed a contract with Dorna Sports, the sport's commercial rights holder, to host a second round at the circuit on 26 July (a week after the first race) to be known as the Andalusian Grand Prix.^[1] The back-to-back Spanish races would mark the first time that a country hosts back-to-back races in the same season. This would also mark the first time in the sport's history that the same venue and circuit layout would have hosted back-to-back World Championship races and the first time that a MotoGP race weekend was held behind closed doors.

Entrants

Twenty two riders representing eleven teams entered the race. Álex Márquez and Brad Binder made their competitive debuts with Repsol Honda Team and Red Bull KTM Factory Racing respectively, and Iker Lecuona started his first full season with Red Bull KTM Tech3 having previously raced for them at the 2019 Valencian Grand Prix.^[2]

Race

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	20	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	25	41:23.796	1	25
2	12	Maverick Viñales	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	25	+4.603	2	20
3	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	25	+5.946	7	16
4	43	Jack Miller	Pramac Racing	Ducati	25	+6.668	5	13
5	21	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	25	+6.844	8	11
6	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	25	+6.938	6	10
7	63	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Racing	Ducati	25	+13.027	4	9
8	88	Miguel Oliveira	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	25	+13.441	15	8
9	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati Team	Ducati	25	+19.651	12	7
10	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	25	+21.553	13	6
11	5	Johann Zarco	Hublot Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	25	+25.100	18	5
12	73	Álex Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	+27.350	19	4
13	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	25	+29.640	11	3
14	53	Tito Rabat	Hublot Reale Avintia Racing	Ducati	25	+32.898	17	2
15	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	25	+39.682	16	1
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	Accident	3
Ret	27	Iker Lecuona	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	19	Heat Syncope	20
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	18	Electronics	9
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	2	Accident	14
Ret	36	Joan Mir	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	1	Accident	10
DNS	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda		Did not start
DNS	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki		Did not start
Fastest lap: Marc Márquez (Honda) – 1:38.372 (lap 11)
Sources:[3][4][5]

• Cal Crutchlow suffered a back injury in a crash during warm-up and was declared unfit to start the race.
• Álex Rins suffered a shoulder injury in a crash during qualifying and was declared unfit to start the race.

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	23	39:23.297	4	25
2	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	23	+1.271	8	20
3	88	Jorge Martín	Kalex	23	+4.838	1	16
4	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	23	+6.200	3	13
5	44	Arón Canet	Speed Up	23	+10.794	6	11
6	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Speed Up	23	+15.578	15	10
7	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	23	+17.426	12	9
8	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	23	+19.416	10	8
9	33	Enea Bastianini	Kalex	23	+19.505	11	7
10	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	23	+19.590	9	6
11	62	Stefano Manzi	MV Agusta	23	+21.269	23	5
12	40	Héctor Garzó	Kalex	23	+21.405	14	4
13	37	Augusto Fernández	Kalex	23	+24.550	24	3
14	11	Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	23	+26.232	20	2
15	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	23	+27.303	21	1
16	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	23	+32.566	13
17	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	23	+33.951	16
18	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	23	+36.432	17
19	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	23	+43.699	27
20	27	Andi Farid Izdihar	Kalex	23	+43.889	28
21	2	Jesko Raffin	NTS	23	+1:02.884	29
22	99	Kasma Daniel	Kalex	23	+1:09.455	30
23	42	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	22	+1 lap	25
Ret	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	20	Accident	19
Ret	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Speed Up	16	Handling	18
Ret	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	7	Accident	7
Ret	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	6	Accident	5
Ret	64	Bo Bendsneyder	NTS	6	Accident	22
Ret	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	5	Accident	26
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Speed Up	0	Collision	2
OFFICIAL MOTO2 RACE REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	22	39:26.256	7	25
2	79	Ai Ogura	Honda	22	+0.340	15	20
3	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	22	+0.369	10	16
4	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	22	+0.546	2	13
5	13	Celestino Vietti	KTM	22	+0.634	5	11
6	25	Raúl Fernández	KTM	22	+0.682	4	10
7	2	Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda	22	+0.753	9	9
8	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	22	+0.881	1	8
9	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	22	+0.986	12	7
10	5	Jaume Masiá	Honda	22	+3.646	11	6
11	71	Ayumu Sasaki	KTM	22	+3.751	17	5
12	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	22	+3.936	16	4
13	55	Romano Fenati	Husqvarna	22	+4.157	8	3
14	21	Alonso López	Husqvarna	22	+6.086	27	2
15[N 1]	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Honda	22	+5.608	6	1
16	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Honda	22	+6.098	25
17	11	Sergio García	Honda	22	+6.256	31
18	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	22	+17.642	21
19	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	22	+28.324	13
20	73	Maximilian Kofler	KTM	22	+28.406	26
21	50	Jason Dupasquier	KTM	22	+28.640	28
22	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	22	+28.844	30
23	9	Davide Pizzoli	KTM	22	+29.026	22
24	70	Barry Baltus	KTM	22	+33.352	29
25	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	22	+1:03.589	18
Ret	17	John McPhee	Honda	21	Collision	3
Ret	92	Yuki Kunii	Honda	16	Handling	20
Ret	12	Filip Salač	Honda	10	Accident Damage	14
Ret	54	Riccardo Rossi	KTM	7	Accident Damage	24
Ret	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda	0	Collision	19
Ret	99	Carlos Tatay	KTM	0	Collision	23
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT

MotoE

Pos.	No.	Rider	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	51	Eric Granado	6	10:55.542	1	25
2	11	Matteo Ferrari	6	+3.044	4	20
3	77	Dominique Aegerter	6	+3.299	3	16
4	35	Lukas Tulovic	6	+3.517	2	13
5	27	Mattia Casadei	6	+4.082	10	11
6	40	Jordi Torres	6	+4.245	8	10
7	55	Alejandro Medina	6	+4.906	5	9
8	10	Xavier Siméon	6	+5.475	6	8
9	16	Joshua Hook	6	+5.795	13	7
10	63	Mike Di Meglio	6	+8.484	11	6
11	66	Niki Tuuli	6	+8.791	9	5
12	70	Tommaso Marcon	6	+10.301	15	4
13	7	Niccolò Canepa	6	+10.579	17	3
14	18	Xavi Cardelús	6	+10.868	12	2
15	6	María Herrera	6	+14.311	14	1
16	84	Jakub Kornfeil	6	+21.385	16
17	15	Alex de Angelis	6	+26.977[N 2]	7
WD	61	Alessandro Zaccone		Withdrew
OFFICIAL MOTOE RACE REPORT

• All bikes manufactured by Energica.

Championship standings after the race

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.^[6][7][8][9]

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Fabio Quartararo 25 2 Maverick Viñales 20 3 Andrea Dovizioso 16 4 Jack Miller 13 5 Franco Morbidelli 11

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 25 2 Ducati 16 3 KTM 10 4 Honda 6 5 Aprilia 1

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Petronas Yamaha SRT 36 2 Ducati Team 23 3 Pramac Racing 22 4 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 20 5 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 13

Moto2

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Tetsuta Nagashima 45 2 Lorenzo Baldassarri 28 23 3 Luca Marini 25 1 4 Enea Bastianini 23 5 Remy Gardner 20

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Kalex 50 2 Speed Up 21 1 3 MV Agusta 6 1 4 NTS 5

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Red Bull KTM Ajo 61 2 Flexbox HP40 32 8 3 Sky Racing Team VR46 29 5 4 Inde Aspar Team Moto2 29 2 5 Italtrans Racing Team 23

Moto3

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Albert Arenas 50 1 2 Ai Ogura 36 1 3 John McPhee 20 4 Jaume Masiá 19 5 Tatsuki Suzuki 19

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 KTM 50 2 Honda 40 3 Husqvarna 6

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Gaviota Aspar Team Moto3 54 3 2 Honda Team Asia 36 1 3 Kömmerling Gresini Moto3 29 1 4 Leopard Racing 26 1 5 Sic58 Squadra Corse 26

MotoE

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Eric Granado	25
2	Matteo Ferrari	20
3	Dominique Aegerter	16
4	Lukas Tulovic	13
5	Mattia Casadei	11

Notes

1. 1-position penalty for exceeding track limits on the last lap.
2. 21-second penalty.