2023 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2023 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the Qatar Airways Grand Prix of Qatar) was the nineteenth round of the 2023 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Lusail International Circuit in Lusail on 19 November 2023.

  2023 Qatar Grand Prix

Race details
Race 19 of 20 races in the 2023 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	19 November 2023
Official name	Qatar Airways Grand Prix of Qatar
Location	Lusail International Circuit Lusail, Qatar
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.380 km (3.343 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Luca Marini Ducati Time 1:51.762 Fastest lap Rider Enea Bastianini Ducati Time 1:52.978 on lap 22 Podium First Fabio Di Giannantonio Ducati Second Francesco Bagnaia Ducati Third Luca Marini Ducati
Moto2
Pole position Rider Joe Roberts Kalex Time 1:57.305 Fastest lap Rider Sam Lowes Kalex Time 1:57.366 on lap 18 Podium First Fermín Aldeguer Boscosuro Second Manuel González Kalex Third Arón Canet Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Daniel Holgado KTM Time 2:04.742 Fastest lap Rider Ayumu Sasaki Husqvarna Time 2:05.501 on lap 15 Podium First Jaume Masià Honda Second David Alonso Gas Gas Third Deniz Öncü KTM

For the first time since 2006, the Grand Prix was not held as the opening round of the season due to the renovation of the circuit.^[1]

In the MotoGP class, Prima Pramac Racing became the first independent team to win the Teams' Championship.^[2]

In the Moto2 class, Red Bull KTM Ajo won their third consecutive and fourth overall Teams' Championship.^[3]

In the Moto3 class, Jaume Masià won the Grand Prix and clinched the Riders' Championship.^[4]

Practice session

MotoGP

Combined Free Practice 1-2

Free Practice sessions on Friday and Saturday do not determine riders to qualify for Q2.

Fastest session lap

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Free practice times
				FP1[5]	FP2[6]
1	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:56.961	1:53.531
2	89	Jorge Martín	Ducati	1:56.393	1:53.604
3	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	1:56.820	1:53.604
4	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	1:56.830	1:53.657
5	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:56.804	1:53.672
6	88	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	1:57.606	1:53.899
7	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:56.565	1:53.916
8	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	1:56.975	1:54.039
9	73	Álex Márquez	Ducati	1:57.835	1:54.048
10	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:56.622	1:54.069
OFFICIAL MOTOGP COMBINED FREE PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

Practice

The top ten riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2.

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor
				Time results[7]
1	25	Raúl Fernández	Aprilia	1:52.843
2	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	1:52.892
3	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	1:52.936
4	33	Brad Binder	KTM	1:52.955
5	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	1:53.033
6	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	1:53.094
7	89	Jorge Martín	Ducati	1:53.094
8	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:53.202
9	37	Augusto Fernández	KTM	1:53.289
10	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	1:53.323
11	43	Jack Miller	KTM	1:53.337
12	73	Álex Márquez	Ducati	1:53.561
13	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:53.564
14	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:53.696
15	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	1:53.704
16	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:53.778
17	36	Joan Mir	Honda	1:53.921
18	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1:53.937
19	88	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	1:53.005
20	27	Iker Lecuona	Honda	1:54.254
21	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:54.260
22	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1.54.441
OFFICIAL MOTOGP PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

Moto2

Combined Practice 1-2-3

The top fourteen riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2.

Fastest session lap

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Free practice times
				P1[8]	P2[9]	P3[10]
1	54	Fermín Aldeguer	Boscoscuro	2:01.097	1:58.059	1:57.895
2	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	2:03.418	1:59.231	1:58.087
3	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	2:01.768	1:58.581	1:58.203
4	18	Manuel González	Kalex	2:01.440	1:58.673	1:58.262
5	3	Lukas Tulovic	Kalex	2:06.246	2:00.299	1:58.373
Source : OFFICIAL MOTO2 COMBINED PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

Moto3

Combined Practice 1-2-3

The top fourteen riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2.

Fastest session lap

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Practice times
				P1[11]	P2[12]	P3[13]
1	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	2:09.404	2:08.421	2:05.843
2	80	David Alonso	Gas Gas	2:10.971	2:07.795	'2:06.049
3	66	Daniel Holgado	KTM	2:11.293	2:08.063	2:06.067
4	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Husqvarna	2:12.815	2:07.868	2:06.282
5	5	Jaume Masià	Honda	2:09.817	2:06.794	2:06.318
Source : OFFICIAL MOTO3 COMBINED PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

Qualifying

MotoGP

Fastest session lap

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Qualifying times		Final grid	Row
				Q1[14]	Q2[15]
1	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:51.762	1	1
2	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:51.892	2
3	73	Álex Márquez	Ducati	1:52.437	1:51.898	3
4	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:52.036	4	2
5	89	Jorge Martín	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:52.058	5
6	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:52.382	1:52.101	6
7	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:52.103	7	3
8	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:52.175	8
9	25	Raúl Fernández	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:52.348	9
10	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:52.466	16[a]	4
11	33	Brad Binder	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:52.729	10
12	37	Augusto Fernández	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:52.784	11
13	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	1:52.504	N/A	12	6
14	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:52.524	N/A	13	5
15	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1:52.828	N/A	14
16	43	Jack Miller	KTM	1:52.889	N/A	15
17	88	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	1:53.099	N/A	17	6
18	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:53.143	N/A	18
19	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:53.362	N/A	19	7
20	36	Joan Mir	Honda	1:53.570	N/A	20
21	27	Iker Lecuona	Honda	1:53.838	N/A	22[b]
22	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:54.360	N/A	21	8
OFFICIAL MOTOGP QUALIFYING RESULTS

Moto2

Joe Roberts set the pole best time 1:57.305 and was the fastest rider at this session ahead of Celestino Vietti and Arón Canet.^[17][18]

Moto3

Daniel Holgado set the pole position 2:04.742 and was the fastest rider at this session ahead of Diogo Moreira and Deniz Öncü.^[19][20]

MotoGP Sprint

The MotoGP Sprint was held on 18 November.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	89	Jorge Martín	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	11	20:52.634	5	12
2	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	11	+0.391	2	9
3	10	Luca Marini	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	11	+2.875	1	7
4	73	Álex Márquez	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	11	+3.370	3	6
5	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	11	+3.957	4	5
6	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	11	+4.239	8	4
7	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	11	+5.761	11	3
8	20	Fabio Quartararo	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	11	+6.454	14	2
9	37	Augusto Fernández	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	11	+8.285	12	1
10	5	Johann Zarco	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	11	+8.314	6
11	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	11	+9.596	7
12	43	Jack Miller	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	11	+10.173	16
13	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	11	+10.646	13
14	25	Raúl Fernández	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	11	+11.117	9
15	21	Franco Morbidelli	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	11	+12.163	18
16	44	Pol Espargaró	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	11	+12.745	19
17	27	Iker Lecuona	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	11	+19.285	21
18	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	11	+26.238	22
19	36	Joan Mir	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	11	+28.446	20
20	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	11	+35.553	15
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	1	Collision damage	10
Ret	88	Miguel Oliveira	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	0	Collision	17
Fastest sprint lap: Jorge Martín (Ducati) – 1:53.355 (lap 6)
OFFICIAL MOTOGP SPRINT REPORT

Warm up practice

MotoGP

Maverick Viñales set the best time 1:53.346 and was the fastest rider at this session ahead of Johann Zarco and Fabio Quartararo.^[21]

Race

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	22	41:43.654	2	25
2	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	22	+2.734	4	20
3	10	Luca Marini	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	22	+4.408	1	16
4	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	22	+4.488	8	13
5	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	22	+7.246	10	11
6	73	Álex Márquez	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	22	+7.620	3	10
7	20	Fabio Quartararo	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	22	+7.828	13	9
8	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	22	+8.239	14	8
9	43	Jack Miller	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	22	+11.509	15	7
10	89	Jorge Martín	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	22	+14.819	5	6
11	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	+14.964	7	5
12	5	Johann Zarco	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	22	+17.431	6	4
13	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	22	+17.807	12	3
14	36	Joan Mir	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	22	+18.673	19	2
15	37	Augusto Fernández	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	22	+21.455	11	1
16	21	Franco Morbidelli	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	22	+21.474	17
17	25	Raúl Fernández	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	22	+22.142	9
18	44	Pol Espargaró	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	22	+27.194	18
19	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	22	+27.740	20
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	6	Retired	16[a]
Ret	27	Iker Lecuona	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	0	Technical issue	21[b]
DNS	88	Miguel Oliveira	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia		Did not start
Fastest lap: Enea Bastianini (Ducati) – 1:52.978 (lap 22)
OFFICIAL MOTOGP RACE REPORT

• Miguel Oliveira suffered a fractured scapula in a collision with Aleix Espargaró during the sprint and withdrew from the main race.^[22]

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	54	Fermín Aldeguer	Boscoscuro	18	35:32.117	4	25
2	18	Manuel González	Kalex	18	+2.643	9	20
3	40	Arón Canet	Kalex	18	+2.652	3	16
4	79	Ai Ogura	Kalex	18	+4.585	12	13
5	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	18	+4.645	6	11
6	13	Celestino Vietti	Kalex	18	+5.936	2	10
7	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	18	+6.212	13	9
8	37	Pedro Acosta	Kalex	18	+6.598	7	8
9	21	Alonso López	Boscoscuro	18	+7.269	10	7
10	14	Tony Arbolino	Kalex	18	+11.302	11	6
11	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	18	+11.565	1	5
12	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	18	+11.663	5	4
13	24	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	18	+16.105	8	3
14	15	Darryn Binder	Kalex	18	+16.306	20	2
15	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Kalex	18	+19.293	19	1
16	71	Dennis Foggia	Kalex	18	+19.513	23
17	11	Sergio García	Kalex	18	+19.602	21
18	7	Barry Baltus	Kalex	18	+19.968	16
19	84	Zonta van den Goorbergh	Kalex	18	+23.303	14
20	17	Álex Escrig	Forward	18	+25.075	15
21	75	Albert Arenas	Kalex	18	+28.571	22
22	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Kalex	18	+28.636	25
23	28	Izan Guevara	Kalex	18	+30.571	24
24	33	Rory Skinner	Kalex	18	+32.413	29
25	23	Taiga Hada	Kalex	18	+35.127	28
26	9	Mattia Casadei	Kalex	18	+36.741	27
Ret	5	Kohta Nozane	Kalex	11	Accident	30
Ret	3	Lukas Tulovic	Kalex	7	Accident	17
Ret	4	Sean Dylan Kelly	Forward	4	Accident	26
DNS	12	Filip Salač	Kalex		Did not start	18
Fastest lap: Sam Lowes (Kalex) – 1:57.366 (lap 18)
OFFICIAL MOTO2 RACE REPORT

• Filip Salač stopped with a technical issue on the sighting lap and was unable to start.

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Jaume Masià	Honda	16	33:50.694	10	25
2	80	David Alonso	Gas Gas	16	+0.068	12	20
3	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	16	+0.163	3	16
4	54	Riccardo Rossi	Honda	16	+0.285	18	13
5	21	Vicente Pérez	KTM	16	+1.553	11	11
6	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Husqvarna	16	+1.566	4	10
7	18	Matteo Bertelle	Honda	16	+1.725	8	9
8	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	16	+1.846	23	8
9	96	Daniel Holgado	KTM	16	+1.943	1	7
10	95	Collin Veijer	Husqvarna	16	+2.019	5	6
11	55	Romano Fenati	Honda	16	+3.634	6	5
12	44	David Muñoz	KTM	16	+4.003	21	4
13	66	Joel Kelso	CFMoto	16	+4.060	7	3
14	72	Taiyo Furusato	Honda	16	+4.166	16	2
15	48	Iván Ortolá	KTM	16	+4.228	9	1
16	99	José Antonio Rueda	KTM	16	+4.707	17
17	31	Adrián Fernández	Honda	16	+5.139	13
18	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	16	+5.221	20
19	19	Scott Ogden	Honda	16	+5.589	15
20	43	Xavier Artigas	CFMoto	16	+7.934	14
21	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Gas Gas	16	+8.140	24
22	63	Syarifuddin Azman	KTM	16	+22.445	22
23	38	David Salvador	KTM	16	+22.622	26
24	20	Lorenzo Fellon	KTM	16	+33.718	25
25	64	Mario Aji	Honda	16	+34.010	28[c]
26	10	Diogo Moreira	KTM	16	+41.722	2
Ret	7	Filippo Farioli	KTM	3	Accident	27[c]
Ret	70	Joshua Whatley	Honda	0	Accident	19
Fastest lap: Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) – 2:05.501 (lap 15)
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT

Championship standings after the race

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.^[23][24][25]

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Francesco Bagnaia 437 2 Jorge Martín 416 3 Marco Bezzecchi 326 4 Brad Binder 268 5 Johann Zarco 204

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Ducati 663 2 KTM 348 3 Aprilia 309 4 Yamaha 187 5 Honda 174

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Prima Pramac Racing 620 2 Ducati Lenovo Team 531 3 Mooney VR46 Racing Team 520 4 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 431 5 Aprilia Racing 390

Moto2

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Pedro Acosta 328.5 2 Tony Arbolino 249.5 3 Jake Dixon 194 4 Fermín Aldeguer 187 5 Arón Canet 175

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Kalex 442.5 2 Boscoscuro 261 3 Forward 4

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Red Bull KTM Ajo 407.5 2 Elf Marc VDS Racing Team 344.5 3 Beta Tools Speed Up 321 4 Idemitsu Honda Team Asia 295 5 Pons Wegow Los40 259

Moto3

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Jaume Masià 271 2 Ayumu Sasaki 243 3 David Alonso 225 4 Daniel Holgado 212 5 Deniz Öncü 212

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 KTM 378 2 Honda 322 3 Husqvarna 282 4 Gas Gas 250 5 CFMoto 104

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP 379 2 Leopard Racing 344 3 Red Bull KTM Ajo 323 4 Gaviota GasGas Aspar Team 303 5 Angeluss MTA Team 272

Notes

1. Six-place grid penalty for unsportmanlike behavior after hitting Franco Morbidelli during FP2.^[16]
2. Three-place grid penalty for riding slowly on the racing line and hindering another rider during Q1.^[16]
3. Back of the grid start penalty.