2020 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix

  2020 Aragon Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 15 races in the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	18 October 2020
Official name	Gran Premio Michelin de Aragón
Location	MotorLand Aragón Alcañiz, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.077 km (3.155 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Fabio Quartararo Yamaha Time 1:47.076 Fastest lap Rider Álex Rins Suzuki Time 1:48.404 on lap 3 Podium First Álex Rins Suzuki Second Álex Márquez Honda Third Joan Mir Suzuki
Moto2
Pole position Rider Sam Lowes Kalex Time 1:51.651 Fastest lap Rider Jorge Martín Kalex Time 1:52.081 on lap 2 Podium First Sam Lowes Kalex Second Enea Bastianini Kalex Third Jorge Martín Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Raúl Fernández KTM Time 1:57.681 Fastest lap Rider Darryn Binder KTM Time 1:58.070 on lap 5 Podium First Jaume Masiá Honda Second Darryn Binder KTM Third Raúl Fernández KTM

The 2020 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the Gran Premio Michelin de Aragón) was the eleventh round of the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the tenth round of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship. It was held at the MotorLand Aragón in Alcañiz on 18 October 2020.

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 opening rounds of the 2020 championship have been heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Aragon Grand Prix, scheduled in the original calendar on October 4 as the sixteenth race of the season, was brought forward by a week following the initial postponement of the Thailand Grand Prix (later cancelled on July 31) on the first Sunday in October (the Thailand stage was initially scheduled for 22 March as the second leg of the championship). 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. A new calendar based exclusively in Europe was announced on 11 June. The race in Aragon was placed on 18 October as the tenth GP of the season.

MotoGP Championship standings before the race

After the ninth round at the 2020 French Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo leads the drivers' championship with 115 points, with a 5-point advantage over Joan Mir. Andrea Dovizioso is third with 97 points, one more than Maverick Viñales, while Takaaki Nakagami is fifth with 81 points.

In the manufacturers' standings, Yamaha leads with 170 points, ahead of Ducati with 151 points. KTM is third with 125 points, seven more than Suzuki. Honda is fifth with 99 points and Aprilia closes the standings with 32 points.

In the team championship, Petronas Yamaha SRT is first with 196 points, followed by Team Suzuki Ecstar and Ducati Team with 165 and 161 points respectively. Monster Energy Yamaha is fourth with 154 points, KTM Factory Racing is fifth with 135 points.

MotoGP Entrants

Further information: 2020 MotoGP season § Rider changes

• Stefan Bradl replaced Marc Márquez for the eighth straight race while he recovered from injuries sustained in his opening round crash.[1][2]
• Valentino Rossi tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus on 15 October, requiring him to quarantine for a minimum of 10 days according to Italian law and forcing him to miss the Aragon and Teruel rounds. Yamaha confirmed that they would not field a replacement for Rossi at the Teruel round on 25 October.
• As Rossi and Marc Márquez missed the race, it was the first time since the 1999 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix that no current or former premier class champion lined up on the grid.[3]

Free practice

MotoGP

In the first session Maverick Viñales was the fastest ahead of Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo.[4] The Spaniard confirmed his first position in the second session, while the Petronas Yamaha SRT bikers swapped positions.[5] In the third session Morbidelli was the fastest ahead of Cal Crutchlow and Pol Espargaró.[6]

Race

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	23	41:54.391	10	25
2	73	Álex Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+0.263	11	20
3	36	Joan Mir	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	23	+2.644	6	16
4	12	Maverick Viñales	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	23	+2.880	2	13
5	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	23	+4.570	7	11
6	21	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	23	+4.756	4	10
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	23	+8.639	13	9
8	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	23	+8.913	3	8
9	43	Jack Miller	Pramac Racing	Ducati	23	+9.390	5	7
10	5	Johann Zarco	Esponsorama Racing	Ducati	23	+9.617	16	6
11	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	23	+13.200	14	5
12	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	23	+13.689	12	4
13	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	23	+14.598	9	3
14	27	Iker Lecuona	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	23	+15.291	15	2
15	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati Team	Ducati	23	+15.941	8	1
16	88	Miguel Oliveira	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	23	+18.284	18
17	6	Stefan Bradl	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+20.136	21
18	20	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	23	+21.498	1
19	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	23	+25.300	19
20	53	Tito Rabat	Esponsorama Racing	Ducati	23	+25.558	20
Ret	63	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Racing	Ducati	2	Accident	17
Fastest lap: Álex Rins (Suzuki) – 1:48.404 (lap 3)
Sources:[7][8][9]

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	21	39:33.202	1	25
2	33	Enea Bastianini	Kalex	21	+4.195	12	20
3	88	Jorge Martín	Kalex	21	+4.340	8	16
4	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	21	+9.298	4	13
5	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	21	+14.765	10	11
6	42	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	21	+15.130	5	10
7	40	Héctor Garzó	Kalex	21	+15.192	15	9
8	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	21	+17.024	11	8
9	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	21	+19.000	14	7
10	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	21	+20.206	18	6
11	37	Augusto Fernández	Kalex	21	+22.661	9	5
12	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	21	+22.692	13	4
13	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	21	+22.995	16	3
14	62	Stefano Manzi	MV Agusta	21	+23.301	23	2
15	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	21	+23.989	22	1
16	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	21	+26.747	20
17	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	21	+26.862	24
18	11	Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	21	+27.686	26
19	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Speed Up	21	+27.761	19
20	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	21	+27.892	21
21	64	Bo Bendsneyder	NTS	21	+36.250	17
22	27	Andi Farid Izdihar	Kalex	21	+44.779	27
23	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	21	+45.687	25
24	18	Xavi Cardelús	Speed Up	21	+47.231	28
25	99	Kasma Daniel	Kalex	21	+58.178	30
26	74	Piotr Biesiekirski	NTS	21	+1:05.154	29
27	9	Jorge Navarro	Speed Up	18	+3 laps	6
Ret	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	19	Accident	2
Ret	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Speed Up	10	Accident	3
Ret	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	2	Accident	7
OFFICIAL MOTO2 RACE REPORT

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Jaume Masiá	Honda	19	37:45.009	17	25
2	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	19	+0.091	11	20
3	25	Raúl Fernández	KTM	19	+0.196	1	16
4	55	Romano Fenati	Husqvarna	19	+0.327	6	13
5	17	John McPhee	Honda	19	+0.368	10	11
6	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Honda	19	+0.385	16	10
7	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	19	+0.396	3	9
8	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	19	+1.933	5	8
9	13	Celestino Vietti	KTM	19	+2.389	2	7
10	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda	19	+2.461	20	6
11	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	19	+2.966	19	5
12	99	Carlos Tatay	KTM	19	+3.020	7	4
13	71	Ayumu Sasaki	KTM	19	+4.872	18	3
14	79	Ai Ogura	Honda	19	+10.949	8	2
15	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	19	+10.979	15	1
16	12	Filip Salač	Honda	19	+11.172	22
17	21	Alonso López	Husqvarna	19	+13.861	4
18	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	19	+19.761	12
19	11	Sergio García	Honda	19	+21.284	14
20	92	Yuki Kunii	Honda	19	+21.339	25
21	54	Riccardo Rossi	KTM	19	+21.379	27
22	50	Jason Dupasquier	KTM	19	+21.440	23
23	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	19	+21.520	24
24	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Honda	19	+36.570	30
25	70	Barry Baltus	KTM	19	+36.628	29
26	9	Davide Pizzoli	KTM	19	+36.676	26
27	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	19	+36.739	28
Ret	73	Maximilian Kofler	KTM	17	Accident	21
Ret	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	8	Accident	13
Ret	2	Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda	0	Accident	9
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT

Championship standings after the race

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.[10][11][12]

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 1 Joan Mir 121 1 2 Fabio Quartararo 115 1 3 Maverick Viñales 109 1 4 Andrea Dovizioso 106 5 Takaaki Nakagami 92

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Ducati 160 2 2 Suzuki 143 3 Yamaha 133[a] 2 4 KTM 130 5 Honda 112

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Team Suzuki Ecstar 206 2 Ducati Team 171 3 Petronas Yamaha SRT 165[b] 1 4 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 147[c] 1 5 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 144

Moto2

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 1 Enea Bastianini 155 2 2 Sam Lowes 153 2 3 Luca Marini 150 1 4 Marco Bezzecchi 130 5 Jorge Martín 95

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Kalex 275 2 Speed Up 91 3 MV Agusta 30 4 NTS 9

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Sky Racing Team VR46 280 2 EG 0,0 Marc VDS 207 3 Red Bull KTM Ajo 174 4 Italtrans Racing Team 160 5 Liqui Moly Intact GP 133

Moto3

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Albert Arenas 144 2 Ai Ogura 131 3 Celestino Vietti 126 4 Tony Arbolino 115 5 John McPhee 109

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 1 Honda 236 1 2 KTM 232 3 Husqvarna 74

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 2 1 Leopard Racing 177 1 2 Sky Racing Team VR46 173 1 3 Gaviota Aspar Team Moto3 170 4 Rivacold Snipers Team 135 1 5 Kömmerling Gresini Moto3 133

Notes

1. Yamaha scored 183 points as a manufacturer, but were deducted 50 points after failing to respect MSMA technical changes protocols.[13]
2. Petronas Yamaha SRT riders scored 202 points, but the team was deducted 37 points after failing to respect MSMA technical changes protocols.[13]
3. Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP riders scored 167 points, but the team was deducted 20 points after failing to respect MSMA technical changes protocols.[13]

References

1. "Stefan Bradl joins Alex Marquez in Brno while Marc Marquez recovers". Honda Racing Corporation. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
2. "Marc Marquez to miss another MotoGP". BusinessLIVE. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
3. Sports, Dorna. "New generation in Aragon: a first since Rio 1999". www.motogp.com. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
4. "GRAN PREMIO MICHELIN® DE ARAGÓN MotoGP Free Practice Nr. 1 Classification 2020" (PDF). www.motogp.com.
5. "GRAN PREMIO MICHELIN® DE ARAGÓN MotoGP Free Practice Nr. 2 Classification 2020" (PDF). www.motogp.com.
6. "GRAN PREMIO MICHELIN® DE ARAGÓN MotoGP Free Practice Nr. 3 Classification 2020" (PDF). www.motogp.com.
7. "2020 Aragon MotoGP | Motorsport Database".
8. Gran Premio Michelin de Aragon. (2020). MotoGP RAC Classification 2020. https://www.motogp.com/en/gp-results/2020/ARA/MotoGP/RAC/Classification.
9. OFFICIAL MOTOGP RACE REPORT
10. "MotoGP Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
11. "Moto2 Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
12. "Moto3 Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
13. "Yamaha handed penalties, no effect on rider points". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2020-11-05.

External links

• "MotoGP Official Website". Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.

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