In fact, so severe have some penalties been this year for small transgressions, it’s perhaps a sign of how little respect there is for the panel that Jack Miller went completely unpunished this year for referring to them as c***s to the media… – SP, Pol Espargaro didn't hold back in his assessment of his feeling aboard Honda's RC213V, admitting that it's a "mess" everywhere but under braking, Fabio Quartararo says he feels “lost” and has no immediate solution in mind after an arm problem robbed him of a probable victory in MotoGP’s Jerez race. Zero. Q2, featured strong performances from the eventual front row of Quartararo, Maverick Viñales and Marc Marquez. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'se2GRzMXSDtI5AZRvI1clg',sig:'bAVLCq_bj5ogYQL7uMe0JJBqAPy6-UpJLPxEuXVa0mo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1227662147',caption: false ,tld:'ca',is360: false })}); Join the Motorcycle.com Weekly Newsletter to keep up to date on all things motorcycling. Numerous riders capitalised on dominant 2019 champion Marc Marquez’s absence throughout, but of them only Joan Mir will have got what he wanted, while many of his peers will have been left ruing a huge ‘what if’ of a season. Instead, for reasons which at the time seemed to be mostly financial, that option never materialised. Yes. Next week we’ll try this again, likely missing a few premier class riders. Baganaia, who was looking Lorenzo-like, and Mir, my personal Alien-in-waiting, were the only real surprises from Q2. After Honda’s first winless season in the premier class since 1981, the manufacturer ended the year fifth out of six, ahead only of Aprilia and well behind upstart (and bitter rival) KTM. The Race started in February 2020 as a digital-only motorsport channel. A word for the ‘losers’ section though – several of the riders and teams in it didn’t actually have what you’d consider particularly bad seasons, and won’t be striking 2020’s achievements from their CVs any time soon. Rossi making it straight to Q2 is a relief for him and his team. Tech3 KTM’s Miguel Oliveira is yet another first-time MotoGP winner in 2020. But that grading’s way too harsh – no Ducati rider save for Jack Miller really found reliable form, and Zarco, on a 2019 version of a fairly complicated bike that he had much less experience of than his peers, was nevertheless sometimes the bright spot. – SP/VK. Plucked from the Moto2 mid-pack and placed into LCR Honda because HRC wanted a Japanese rider in the premier class, he was seen as a consistent but steady journeyman who would never set the world on fire. So he was out for Sunday’s race and his entire 2020 season has likely been trashed. Catalan GP Sep 25, 2020 to Sep 27, 2020 . – VK. Same with Moto2, which gave us a somewhat atypical procession today. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'TKDP9k5pR6NnCixHleiR_Q',sig:'aqwPozmIGxDqRKg-2sHLFPXD7IHR4rbjK81Gz-_911g=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1257057839',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })}); Albert Arenas, having won in Qatar sometime back around the spring equinox, won again today in a hotly (!) Go figure. Tranche I: Marc Marquez*, Fabio Quartararo Tranche II: Maverick Viñales, Jack Miller, Andrea Dovizioso, Pol Espargaro, Franco Morbidelli, Alex Rins* Tranche III: Pecco Bagnaia, Cal Crutchlow*, Valentino Rossi, Joan Mir, Brad Binder, Danilo Petrucci, Miguel Oliveira Tranche IV: Takaa Nakagami, Aleix Espargaro, Iker Lecuona Tranche V: Tito Rabat, Johann Zarco, Alex Marquez, Bradley Smith. I distinctly remember having thoughts to that effect in 2018, but hindsight has made any take like that look patently absurd. But it is clear KTM has made a gargantuan step forward. Pol Espargaro, a quiet Dovizioso and a jinxed Rins would have constituted Row 3, theoretically, had Rins not suffered a “fracture/dislocation” of his right shoulder with a minute left. MotoGP’s rules have been finely honed over the years to create racing that’s closer than just about any other world-class motorsport series, and with 2020 out to shake up the norm in every walk of life it’s made for a year that will live forever. Aragon GP Oct 16, 2020 to Oct 18, 2020 . By Nate Ryan Sep 13, 2020, 10:30 AM EDT. 9⃣ different winners! Browse through 2020 MotoGP results, statistics, rankings and championship standings. The winner of the opening two races of the year at Jerez in incredible style, he looked set to pick up where he left off at the end of his rookie season and ride off to title success in the absence of Marquez. Repsol Honda released a statement saying Marquez suffered a “transverse diaphyseal fracture to his right humerus” and will undergo surgery Tuesday. 5⃣ of them first-time winners!. Can Suzuki provide sufficient horsepower to make Rins or Mir Aliens?? – VK. This edition includes Joan Mir, Marc Marquez, Suzuki, Aprilia … Mentor Valentino Rossi said Morbidelli had been the quickest MotoGP rider down the final stretch of the campaign, and it was very hard to argue with that. For years (or decades, depending on who you talk to), Honda’s incredible grand prix success has always come with a caveat. by a hefty penalty for a serious rule breach. Chasing Viñales, blood in his eyes, furious with himself about Lap 5, Marquez endured the kind of violent high-side more typically associated with Jorge Lorenzo, clearly his most serious crash since 2011, when he came close to ending his career before it started in Sepang, suffering double vision for six months thereafter. – VK. Without him, it’s been nothing short of complete disaster. Fabio set a new track record on Saturday morning. The series has been dominated by the V4s of Honda and Ducati of late, and the question has been asked time and again if the inline engines had seen their day. Not that Iannone, based of 2019 form, would’ve improved Aprilia’s fortunes much, as this is still firmly a bike that only Espargaro seems to be able to get the best out of. Moto3, with its 12-man lead groups, offers simply the best racing on the planet. Without a shadow of a doubt, the most complained-about people within MotoGP this year have been the FIM Stewards Panel, the body that administers sanctions headed up by multiple champion Freddie Spencer. Tickets Subscribe. It feels strange to group the manufacturer and rider together because they’re no longer whole, and didn’t really seem as one through so much of 2020, but ultimately this was a missed open goal for both. A new and improved rear tyre construction offered far more grip, and it actually proved too much traction for the likes of Ducati, who spent the whole year trying (and failing) to understand how to use it. Yet the reality is, he’s the one who has spent three seasons working hard to develop the Suzuki GSX-RR into a championship-winning bike, and it’s got to have left a bitter taste in his mouth to see 2019 rookie team-mate Mir rock up at the start of the year and ride off into the sunset and the history books on ‘his’ bike. The impression is that they’re universally derided by the entire grid, who view their actions are simultaneously inconsistent to the point of exasperation and unexplained to the point of frustration. Coming off an 8-month layoff, and with riders having little real practice time under their belts, this race was unlikely to be a work of art. More, from a press release issued by Dorna: Magic number 8: Rins reigns MotorLand, Mir takes the Championship lead Suzuki make it a day to remember with their best MotoGP™ results in … Oliveira takes a perfect home victory with lights-to-flag domination of the 2020 Portimao MotoGP season finale. Five winners in six: the 2020 title race is wide open Morbidelli’s win, Bagnaia’s first podium, Quartararo’s DNF and everything else that happened at Misano sees 2020 … French GP Oct 9, 2020 to Oct 11, 2020 . By Kevin Cameron. Bravo, Joan Mir, for maintaining your perfect record of sophomore titles. Even the title maybe could’ve been his – but the important thing is that he’s definitely made it look possible going forward. In addition to the usual suspects, the lambs included Jack Miller and Joan Mir, both looking dangerous, Cal Crutchlow lame-ducking the LCR Honda, suddenly quick SRT TechTrois Yamaha heartthrob Franco Morbidelli and young Pecco Bagnaia, who, having crawled in 2019, appears to be walking on the Pramac Ducati in 2020. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ZNG1lpfoSVx3vRyx9P4_IQ',sig:'2o1UyrmJH2TlyutSmjZYU8kFoCRPO7HZwu-BYFSovtA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1257056443',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })}); What were the big questions heading into MotoGP 2020? Our aim is to create the best motorsport coverage that appeals to die-hard fans as well as those who are new to the sport. The nimble GSX-RR seemed absolutely perfect for Lorenzo’s style and, having finally got his head around the Desmosedici, he seemed perfect to take Suzuki to the next level. MotoGP 2020 results and standings for top drivers and teams Will Aprilia show any discernible improvements over 2019? After all, there was a podium, and three more top-five finishes, and three mechanical failures, and an absence caused by COVID-19. The 2020 MotoGP season got off with a bang, as the brutally hot conditions in southern Spain took a toll on all three classes. Results and standings Maverick Viñales and Jack Miller both had a strong opening weekend. 2020 - #Moto3 winner 2021 - #Moto2 winner Raúl Fernández, the prince of Portimao! After coming close a few times last year, Frenchman Fabio Quartararo finally captured his first MotoGP victory. 5 Comments. Morbidelli needed this. Will Rossi start to show his age or any sign of a give-a-rip attitude? Well, in 2020 the basket got kicked over at the opening round of the year when Marquez crashed out at Jerez and shattered his upper right arm. On paper, Alex Rins is one of the big winners of 2020. We await word of Marc Marquez’ status for next week, but as it currently stands, Alex Marquez leads his brother 4-0 after one round. – SP. The same cannot be said about the results of the combined FP1-FP3 practices that separate the goats from the lambs re: having to slog through the frying pan of Q1 just to get thrust immediately into the fire of Q2. The Suzuki rider was perfect in the Gran Premio de Europa to make his first visit to the top step in the premier class, putting one hand on the crown in the process as he stretches his advantage in the Championship to 37 points. The Binder story is only starting. 2020 European MotoGP Results Joan Mir (Team Suzuki Ecstar) is now a MotoGP race winner. In addition to Fabio’s first career MotoGP win, Viñales made it a factory Yamaha 1-2, with Dovi putting his Ducati on the podium late in the game. This entry was posted on October 18, 2020 at 11:57 am and is filed under 2020 MotoGP Championship, Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing, Joan Mir, Moto, Moto2, Moto3, MotoGP, motogp 2020, MotoGP Aragon, MotoGP Results, Motorcycle Racing, Racing News. Marc Marquez, who led Friday, was lurking, keeping his powder dry in P4, looking like he was ready to assert himself in qualifying. Who will emerge as the top challenger(s)? To get UNLIMITED access, all you need to … – SP. Three. But none of that makes the rest of it ‘good’. ... Fabio Quartararo Wins First MotoGP Of 2020. OK. Like, how many top tens will Alex Marquez see this year? Hopefully, the Grand Prix of Andalucía won’t be quite as hot as the Grand Prix of Spain. Sure, Honda creates dominant champions on incredible motorcycles – but it’s all too guilty of putting all its eggs in one basket and tailoring a bike to a single superstar. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. And it wasn’t about internal strife, or glaring errors, or obvious unrealised potential. And there was no course correction throughout 2020. But after two rounds, the top five in Moto2 include Nagashima, Lorenzo Baldassarri, Marini, Enea Bastiannini, and Aron Canet. His first season with Yamaha in 2019 was perfectly serviceable, but was completely overshadowed by Fabio Quartararo’s whirlwind debut, and though his premier-class future was secured even before racing began in 2020, his case for a longer-term MotoGP career in top machinery still needed building. But, hey, all that means it’s as good a time as possible for the change of scenery that the Petronas 2021 move will bring about. And in doing so, these sides combined to save his premier-class career. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Luca Marini, who has MotoGP written all over him, fended off a brave challenge from journeyman (and series leader) Tetsuga Nagashima, while Moto2 sophomore Jorge Martin scored his third career Moto2 podium, holding Sam Lowes at bay for the last few laps. Maybe. For most of his MotoGP career, Taka Nakagami has been something of a background figure. Seasoned paddock veterans have always tipped South African Moto3 world champion Binder as something a bit special – his potential perhaps best emphasised by his incredible charge at Jerez to victory from the back of the grid in the lightweight class. That’s not to say it wasn’t pretty damned exciting. Plenty of action lower in the order; too much to keep up with here. When MotoGP bosses Dorna announced its plans for a 13-round MotoGP calendar back in May, many scoffed at the idea that it would be even possible in the middle of a global pandemic. It was a classy ride from the Italian as he led Team Suzuki Ecstar’s Alex Rins over the line by two seconds, with Joan Mir (Team Suzuki Ecstar) picking up another third at MotorLand to extend his Championship lead. The Portuguese was among the steadiest riders in race trim this year, and while there was a dash of good fortune about his maiden win in the Styrian Grand Prix, his victory on home soil at Portimao was a monumental display – the kind only truly elite MotoGP riders can produce. A record-equalling season for winners in the premier class, 2020 has been nothing short of superb! – SP. Rushing back to action only a week later with hubris typical of both Marquez and Honda only made things worse, and the eight-time world champion has spent the entire season watching from the sidelines. Given that it won more races and took comfortably more poles than any of its rivals, it’s truly remarkable that Yamaha has left the 2020 season without any of the three main titles. He was very much the number two to superstar Quartararo in 2019, but it took no time at all for the other side of the garage to have racked up an equal number of wins and a much better championship place, just as Quartararo prepares to join Maverick Vinales in the factory team for next year. But he still firmly seems on average the fourth-fastest in Yamaha’s quartet of riders, and a 90th premier-class win looks as far away as ever since the 89th came in 2017 at Assen. On 10 August, the Portuguese Grand Prix was announced to be staging the final race of the 2020 season at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimão. Aprilia, unfortunately, was still up to its old tricks, with a P15 and a DNF to show for its efforts to go along with the bubbly public relations campaign being waged by riders and team brass. KTM must be pleased with Espargaro, for now, and rookie  Binder who, until leaving the premises briefly on Lap 7, had been running in the top eight. – VK. The manner of his split with KTM left a bad taste too – not because he’d initiated it for 2020, but because KTM then sidelined him before 2019 was out because it felt his negativity was too much. And that might be the case again next year, at least in the beginning, as Aprilia looks set to bet on a relatively unknown quantity in Joe Roberts – having failed to land either Andrea Dovizioso, Cal Crutchlow or an established Moto2 frontrunner. In early 2018, when it became clear Ducati and Jorge Lorenzo were heading for divorce, Suzuki emerged as a prime landing spot for Lorenzo. The good news is, at least Espargaro is keeping faith, relative to how dejected he seemed at times in 2019. Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into four classes since 2019; MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3, and MotoE.Former classes that are now discontinued include 350cc, 50cc and sidecars. Jack Miller and Franco Morbidelli completed the top five. And so is the Oliveira story. … No. Crutchlow put himself out of the race with a hard crash in today’s warm-up. Jack Miller scored his first MotoGP win since 2016 in the Spanish Grand Prix as a dominant-looking race for Fabio... Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro was "very angry" with the Jerez circuit following qualifying for tomorrow’s Spanish Grand Prix, after a series of high-speed crashes highlighted the significant lack of run-off at a number of the track’s corners, Marc Marquez experienced his first big crash since returning to MotoGP at last week’s Portuguese Grand Prix, and he admitted that he didn't "exactly remember" his high-speed fall during FP3 at Jerez, Petronas Yamaha rider Franco Morbidelli wants MotoGP to impose a time limit on lap deletions, arguing that the stewards’ late decision to strip him of a key practice lap created a “safety issue". Watch the video. Hoo boy. He was less fortunate later. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'LtREyeLbTP5bxAOqYbgifw',sig:'LYH9WuXe3rNSo6kXZ0-jVhfETPR_Zk-K1Y3zPzfSpoc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1227689224',caption: false ,tld:'ca',is360: false })}); One must concede that Marquez, despite being faster than everyone else out there, was a bit rusty. Two riders failed to start, five failed to finish, and several others went walkabout and re-entered. It was already clear, even in an injury-ravaged 2019, that Suzuki’s faith in Mir was paying off, and 2020 – as surprising as it was – is a fitting end to a superb arc. Maybe victories and podiums weren’t on the cards, but what also wasn’t in the cards, at all, was Aprilia putting up what in some regards is its worst season results-wise since before current lead rider Aleix Espargaro’s arrival in 2017. Browse through 2020 MotoGP results, statistics, rankings and championship standings. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Qr5SbQMxS_5hIlMJWeO1fw',sig:'uqvJZt6HaKy1kozoRG99u3LhFeePGhqOYTo5kRdyWnE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1227689347',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })}); With Rins, Crutchlow and, finally, Marquez out of the mix, a number of lesser riders had surprisingly good days. Tuesday’s test at Misano offered factories the chance to test new parts ahead of the exhaustive run to the end of the year that sees riders race eight times in ten weekends. Bagnaia, Binder and Mir. With the 2020 MotoGP World Championship done and dusted, here is part one of our end-of-season MotoGP Winners & Losers video. This is what happens when you schedule stuff outdoors in southern Spain in July. The Grand Prix Road-Racing World Championship was established in 1949 … We use data about you for a number of purposes explained in the links below. Which of the young guns will make great strides and approach Alien status? Back in 2016, when he was lighting up the timing screens in his first Yamaha test, it wasn’t quite unthinkable that he wouldn’t be a champion soon – but it was unthinkable that he wouldn’t really even contend for a title. Yes. a lot of optimism surrounding the new RS-GP in the pre-season. It was a mess of a season for the firm, compounded by what appeared to be a lack of testing opportunities, the re-occurrence of the long-standing reliability issue and Andrea Iannone’s dragged out doping case. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'6Dmr0z6ZRF5KB6CZ5Ra5kw',sig:'fyuqa8m9bZ6-ty8YhbMs8L8HGJ8vKtI5C7tR4Hrmf50=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1257055485',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })}); Today’s Spanish Grand Prix was bookended by two mishaps attributable to Marc Marquez. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Add to that that he’s never been much of a Saturday rider, and it repeatedly meant he left himself with too much to do on race day. If you had predicted at the start of the year that MotoGP’s inline four-powered bikes would dominate the year by taking 10 out of 14 wins and the championship, you’d have been laughed at. Making it even worse was the rise of team-mate Morbidelli. By Valentin Khorounzhiy and Simon Patterson, Secrets of Mir’s shock run to the MotoGP title, How Honda unlocked its shock MotoGP star’s speed, Small change or big error? Below, we’ve named our winners and losers of the 2020 campaign. Calls for more clarity from riders, teams, media and fans have been largely stonewalled, while riders have been punished severely for minor infractions. Zarco’s MotoGP tenure looked in serious danger of an abrupt end out when his big KTM move failed. Nakagami is admittedly still without a maiden podium, never mind a win, but though he let a few great chances lapse in 2020 it’s only a matter of time before he converts his potential into silverware. But a special mention for Vinales. Dovizioso and Ducati were three time runners-up behind Marquez, and now that he basically missed a season they didn’t really come anywhere near capitalising. Subscribe. Aug 16, 2020: Race results from the Austrian MotoGP at the Red Bull Ring, round 4 of the revised 2020 season. 2020 Valencia MotoGP Saturday News Details of Iannone’s defense emerge. And while Mir might be the champion, the real winners have been the fans watching at home (and even in some limited cases at the tracks). Franco Morbidelli becomes the fourth first-time winner in MotoGP this year. Fabio Quartararo set a new track record with a time of 1:36.705 during Q2. 2020 motogp aragon gp alex rins suzuki ecstar alex marquez repsol honda joan mir Rins sweeps victory as Alex Marquez takes 2nd MotoGP podium 2020 MotoGP: Eight winners, nine races. The fall from stratospheric high to subterranean low was experienced by Fabio Quartararo in 2020. Sometimes it’s simpler than that – there was just no championship-calibre pace, at virtually any point (including even the one Red Bull Ring race win, which was hard-earned but fortuitous). Can anybody break Quartararo’s Jerez strangehold? contested Moto3 tilt, edging out Ai Ogura and Tony Arbolino. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'e37arjr9SOBXimRXdpSNDQ',sig:'s8Rak9cB2czgl4gC3DROjUHWeuHNdY0Wf5ii9BDf6pU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1182896364',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })}); Rins reminds us that although the championship cannot be won at Round One, it can be lost. Further details of Andrea Iannone’s case against the FIM International Disciplinary Court and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have emerged in which the Italian’s defense appeared frightfully underprepared. Franco Morbidelli (Petronas Yamaha SRT) didn’t put a foot wrong on Sunday afternoon to claim his second victory of 2020 at the Gran Premio Liqui Moly de Teruel. And so was Avintia/Esponsorama. You have reached your limit for stories this month. When the smoke cleared, Alex Rins’ Suzuki and Pol Espargaro’s KTM had made it into Q2 after an unusually strong performance by KTM rookie Brad Binder, a worker bee who bears watching. It is why he gave his season a 5.5 mark out of 10 when asked at Portimao. Management of talent delivers results. But the balance dramatically tipped the other way this season thanks in large part to Michelin. It promises to be warm. The Race is stopped. 2020 Ducati Superleggera V4 Review – First Ride, Two Ways to Skin a Knee: 2021 Honda ADV150 vs. 2021 Honda Trail 125, Limited Edition Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Revival Kicks Off Icons Collection, 2021 Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 Special Review – First Ride, 2021 Aprilia RSV4 and RSV4 Factory Review – First Ride. This entry was posted on September 27, 2020 at 11:54 am and is filed under Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing, Grand Prix of Aragon, Moto, Moto2, Moto3, MotoGP, motogp 2020, MotoGP Aragon, MotoGP Results, Motorcycle Racing. Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into three classes since 1997: 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP.Former classes that have been discontinued include 350cc, 50cc/80cc and Sidecar. It just didn’t feel the same with the stands empty of fans. Photos by: Getty Images; lead photo by Yamaha, It doesn’t have to be big to be an Adventure. Yamaha took three of the top five spots, despite Valentino Rossi’s retirement on Lap 19; Ducati claimed the other two. Browse through 2020 MotoGP results, statistics, rankings and championship standings. But once the season commenced, for all of Yamaha’s inconsistencies, Morbidelli and Quartararo combined for a much more potent line-up than their works counterparts – more podiums, more poles, more wins. Sunday MotoGP. # MotoGP So while in one regard he had a great year, won races and fought for the title, it all comes down to one of racing’s oldest adages – the first person you have to beat is your team-mate, and Rins didn’t do that in 2020. On Saturday FP3 ended with Andrea Dovizioso on the inside looking out from P10 at the likes of Pol Espargaro, Alex Rins, Danilo Petrucci, Johann Zarco, Miguel Oliveira and, not for the last time, Alex Marquez. Yet it didn’t take long for everything he’d built to come crashing down around him. Portimão has been MotoGP's reserve track since 2017. This article originally appeared on Late-Braking MotoGP. Team Suzuki, with Rins out hurt and Mir crashing, had a train wreck of a day, but all six Ducatis finished today’s race. Our answers to those questions, after one scrap, go like this: Big crash at Jerez I. Fabio, Maverick and Miller. The most dramatic event today was Marc Marquez crashing heavily toward the end of the premier class race, after recovering from a costly early moment to challenge for the win. We use cookies to improve your experience on this website and so that ads you see online can be tailored to your online browsing interests. Today’s crash looked bad. Yes, it clearly helps that Brad Binder and Miguel Oliveira are top talent, and that the 2020 season was particularly wacky – whether it was due to Marquez’s absence, the Michelin rear tyre, all of the above or something else entirely. Riders debate impact of 2020 Yamaha, Twelve months that transformed MotoGP’s new winning team, Zarco interview: ‘I was scared I could taste the end’, Farewell Dovizioso – MotoGP’s ultimate underdog, Vinales feels stuck in Yamaha loop: ‘It’s impossible to win’, Scathing court report shows why Iannone’s appeal had no hope, Why Rossi + Morbidelli is a ‘no filters’ dream team, Rider dissent against MotoGP stewarding ‘mess’ grows louder. For the first time since the second round of the 2020 MotoGP season, Fabio Quartararo was on the top of the podium as a race winner. There followed a remarkable display of riding, as Marquez sliced through the field all the way back to third place, with Viñales clearly in his sights and, in a perfect world, time to catch Quartararo. According to the announcers, the heat was worse than Sepang, worse than Buriram. For those of you still reading, Morbidelli and our old buddy Valentino Rossi joined a perplexing Joan Mir in Row 4. Get the latest MotoGP, Moto2 & Moto3 race results and check out the upcoming race calendar at BT Sport, the home of live motorsport. Bravo, Davide Brivio, for seeing something special in him and rolling the dice. Yeah, almost certainly. Aside from that, it was a valiant effort against unfavourable odds – but the context of the three previous years is impossible to ignore. Fabio Quartararo fires the first shot in the 2020 MotoGP with a win at Jerez. But for all of them, the opportunity was there to do much more. Follow your favorite team and driver's progress with daily updates. Still plenty of racing left to go. Boasting top ten finishes tonight are KTM’s Pol Espargaro (6th), Pramac Ducati youngster Bagnaia (7th) and KTM’s Oliveira (8th). Suzuki instead opted for a rider straight out of Moto3, who hadn’t won by then in his sole Moto2 campaign and wouldn’t do so by the time it wrapped up. By continuing to browse our site you agree to our use of data and cookies. 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