# 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.
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

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. 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 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.

## 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: |||||||||
* 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 | 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 | 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.

### MotoGP

| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Fabio Quartararo | 25 |
| 2 | Maverick Viñales | 20 |
| 3 | Andrea Dovizioso | 16 |
| 4 | Jack Miller | 13 |
| 5 | Franco Morbidelli | 11 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Yamaha | 25 |
| 2 | Ducati | 16 |
| 3 | KTM | 10 |
| 4 | Honda | 6 |
| 5 | Aprilia | 1 |
| 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

| | 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 |
| | Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| | 1 | Kalex | 50 |
| | 2 | Speed Up | 21 |
| 1 | 3 | MV Agusta | 6 |
| 1 | 4 | NTS | 5 |
| | 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

| | 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 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | KTM | 50 |
| 2 | Honda | 40 |
| 3 | Husqvarna | 6 |
| | 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 |