# Héctor Barberá

Héctor Barberá Vall (born 2 November 1986) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competes in MotoAmerica aboard a BMW S1000RR.

## Career

Born in Dos Aguas, Valencia Province, Barberá began his World Championship career at the age of 15 in the 2002 125cc world championship, under the guidance of Jorge Martínez "Aspar", who teamed Barberá and fellow youngster Ángel Rodríguez up with the experienced Pablo Nieto.
In his first season Barberá established himself as the most promising rider of the three and in 2003 he broke through, with his first victory at Donington Park making him one of the youngest riders ever to win a Grand Prix. A strong finish to the season saw him take third place in the championship and he signed up for a title challenge with Seedorf Racing in 2003. Several inopportune crashes and mechanical failures derailed his hopes but victory in the final race secured the runner-up spot and a factory ride with Fortuna Honda in the 250cc class for 2005. After two years with the team he moved to Team Toth in 2007.
Barberá survived a huge crash during the Italian round of the championship on June 1, 2008. Running second behind Marco Simoncelli on the penultimate lap who tried to defend his lead by changing his line on the straight, Barberá slipstreamed onto Simoncelli's back wheel and clipped it with his front brake lever. His bike somersaulted through the air, with Barberá escaping somewhat uninjured. However, a further crash in practice at Motegi left him with two spinal fractures, ending his season.
In the 2009 250cc world championship, Barberá won three races along with five other podium results to finish second to Honda's Hiroshi Aoyama. Barberá won the 2009 Valencia Grand Prix, the final two-stroke, 250cc race in Grand Prix history, as the class was to be discontinued in favor of the four-stroke Moto2 class in 2010. On 20 August 2009 it was announced Barberá would move to MotoGP in 2010, riding for the Aspar Team aboard Ducati customer bikes. Barberá finished the 2010 MotoGP season in twelfth place, and followed on in eleventh place in 2011. On 7 November 2011, it was announced that he was moving to Pramac Racing for the 2012 season.
In 2016, Barbera finished a career best of tenth place in the MotoGP standings. That year, he had his only two races for a factory MotoGP team, replacing Andrea Iannone at Ducati Corse. Barbera switched to Moto2 after failing to find a MotoGP ride for 2018. He competed at the last Grand Prix of his career that year at Mugello.
Barbera later competed in World Superbikes, World Supersport, MotoAmerica, and British Superbikes.

## Legal issues

Barbera was sentenced to six months in jail for assault and battery in 2013.
He was ordered to serve 22 days of community service in 2018 for driving under the influence, which caused him to lose his Pons Racing Moto2 ride.
Barbera was accused of stealing a Yamaha Supersport bike owned by his own team, Team Toth, in 2019.
In 2023, he was investigated for fraud and forgery. It was also revealed by Andorran news website Altaveu that he had a search and arrest warrant issued against him since 2019 for another undisclosed affair.

## Career statistics
### Grand Prix motorcycle racing
#### By season

| Season | Class | Motorcycle | Team | Race | Win | Podium | Pole | FLap | Pts | Plcd |
| 2002 | 125cc | Aprilia | Master–Aspar Team | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 14th |
| 2003 | 125cc | Aprilia | Master–MXOnda–Aspar Team | 16 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 164 | 3rd |
| 2004 | 125cc | Aprilia | Seedorf Racing | 16 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 202 | 2nd |
| 2005 | 250cc | Honda | Fortuna Honda | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 9th |
| 2006 | 250cc | Aprilia | Fortuna Aprilia | 14 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 152 | 7th |
| 2007 | 250cc | Aprilia | Team Tóth Aprilia | 17 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 177 | 5th |
| 2008 | 250cc | Aprilia | Team Tóth Aprilia | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 142 | 6th |
| 2009 | 250cc | Aprilia | Pepe World Team | 16 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 239 | 2nd |
| 2010 | MotoGP | Ducati | Páginas Amarillas Aspar | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 12th |
| 2011 | MotoGP | Ducati | Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 11th |
| 2012 | MotoGP | Ducati | Pramac Racing Team | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 11th |
| 2013 | MotoGP | FTR | Avintia Blusens | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 16th |
| 2014 | MotoGP | Avintia | Avintia Racing | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 18th |
| 2014 | MotoGP | Ducati | Avintia Racing | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 18th |
| 2015 | MotoGP | Ducati | Avintia Racing | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 15th |
| 2016 | MotoGP | Ducati | Avintia Racing | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 10th |
| 2016 | MotoGP | Ducati | Ducati Team | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 10th |
| 2017 | MotoGP | Ducati | Reale Avintia Racing | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 22nd |
| 2018 | Moto2 | Kalex | Pons HP40 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 23rd |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 267 | 10 | 32 | 9 | 10 | 1735 | |

#### By class

| Class | Seasons | 1st GP | 1st Pod | 1st Win | Race | Win | Podiums | Pole | FLap | Pts | WChmp |
| 125cc | 2002–2004 | 2002 Japan | 2003 Netherlands | 2003 Great Britain | 47 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 416 | 0 |
| 250cc | 2005–2009 | 2005 Spain | 2006 Turkey | 2006 China | 75 | 4 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 830 | 0 |
| Moto2 | 2018 | 2018 Qatar | | | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| MotoGP | 2010–2017 | 2010 Qatar | | | 139 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 479 | 0 |
| Total | 2002–2018 | 2002–2018 | 2002–2018 | 2002–2018 | 267 | 10 | 32 | 9 | 10 | 1735 | 0 |

#### Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Pos | Pts |
| 2002 | 125cc | Aprilia | JPN 16 | RSA DNS | SPA 12 | FRA 15 | ITA Ret | CAT 18 | NED 20 | GBR Ret | GER 21 | CZE 4 | POR Ret | RIO 15 | PAC 5 | MAL 8 | AUS 14 | VAL 6 | | | | 14th | 50 |
| 2003 | 125cc | Aprilia | JPN Ret | RSA 13 | SPA 7 | FRA 11 | ITA 9 | CAT Ret | NED 3 | GBR 1 | GER 14 | CZE 5 | POR 2 | RIO 9 | PAC 1 | MAL 8 | AUS 6 | VAL 3 | | | | 3rd | 164 |
| 2004 | 125cc | Aprilia | RSA 10 | SPA 3 | FRA 5 | ITA 3 | CAT 1 | NED 6 | RIO 1 | GER 2 | GBR Ret | CZE 7 | POR 1 | JPN Ret | QAT 12 | MAL Ret | AUS 6 | VAL 1 | | | | 2nd | 202 |
| 2005 | 250cc | Honda | SPA 5 | POR 11 | CHN 7 | FRA 7 | ITA 6 | CAT 16 | NED 9 | GBR Ret | GER 8 | CZE Ret | JPN 8 | MAL 6 | QAT 7 | AUS 4 | TUR 6 | VAL 5 | | | | 9th | 120 |
| 2006 | 250cc | Aprilia | SPA 5 | QAT 4 | TUR 2 | CHN 1 | FRA 7 | ITA Ret | CAT | NED | GBR 5 | GER 5 | CZE 5 | MAL Ret | AUS 6 | JPN 7 | POR 10 | VAL 3 | | | | 7th | 152 |
| 2007 | 250cc | Aprilia | QAT 3 | SPA Ret | TUR 8 | CHN 6 | FRA 4 | ITA 3 | CAT 8 | GBR Ret | NED 7 | GER 6 | CZE 4 | RSM 3 | POR 5 | JPN 3 | AUS Ret | MAL 2 | VAL 5 | | | 5th | 177 |
| 2008 | 250cc | Aprilia | QAT 2 | SPA 5 | POR 8 | CHN 6 | FRA 12 | ITA Ret | CAT 3 | GBR 4 | NED 5 | GER 2 | CZE 4 | RSM 3 | INP C | JPN DNS | AUS | MAL | VAL | | | 6th | 142 |
| 2009 | 250cc | Aprilia | QAT 1 | JPN 11 | SPA 4 | FRA 11 | ITA 5 | CAT 3 | NED 2 | GER 5 | GBR 8 | CZE 7 | INP 6 | RSM 1 | POR 3 | AUS 2 | MAL 2 | VAL 1 | | | | 2nd | 239 |
| 2010 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT 12 | SPA 13 | FRA 8 | ITA 12 | GBR 11 | NED 12 | CAT 10 | GER 9 | USA Ret | CZE 9 | INP 10 | RSM 9 | ARA 11 | JPN 13 | MAL 11 | AUS 14 | POR 10 | VAL 8 | | 12th | 90 |
| 2011 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT 12 | SPA 6 | POR Ret | FRA 9 | CAT 11 | GBR 11 | NED 12 | ITA 7 | GER 11 | USA 9 | CZE 10 | INP Ret | RSM 9 | ARA 8 | JPN Ret | AUS | MAL C | VAL 11 | | 11th | 82 |
| 2012 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT 9 | SPA 10 | POR 10 | FRA 9 | CAT 11 | GBR 10 | NED 7 | GER 9 | ITA 9 | USA | INP WD | CZE | RSM Ret | ARA 12 | JPN 10 | MAL 7 | AUS 12 | VAL Ret | | 11th | 83 |
| 2013 | MotoGP | FTR | QAT 13 | AME 18 | SPA 12 | FRA 18 | ITA 10 | CAT Ret | NED 20 | GER 11 | USA 10 | INP 16 | CZE Ret | GBR 13 | RSM Ret | ARA Ret | MAL 14 | AUS 14 | JPN 16 | VAL 12 | | 16th | 35 |
| 2014 | MotoGP | Avintia | QAT Ret | AME 15 | ARG 16 | SPA 15 | FRA Ret | ITA Ret | CAT 19 | NED 18 | GER 18 | INP Ret | CZE 17 | GBR 19 | RSM 19 | | | | | | | 18th | 26 |
| 2014 | MotoGP | Ducati | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ARA 19 | JPN 15 | AUS 5 | MAL 9 | VAL 11 | | 18th | 26 |
| 2015 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT 15 | AME 12 | ARG 13 | SPA 14 | FRA 13 | ITA 13 | CAT 16 | NED Ret | GER 13 | INP 15 | CZE 16 | GBR 13 | RSM 18 | ARA 16 | JPN 9 | AUS 16 | MAL 13 | VAL 16 | | 15th | 33 |
| 2016 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT 9 | ARG 5 | AME 9 | SPA 10 | FRA 8 | ITA 12 | CAT 11 | NED 6 | GER 9 | AUT DSQ | CZE 5 | GBR 14 | RSM 13 | ARA 13 | JPN 17 | AUS Ret | MAL 4 | VAL 11 | | 10th | 102 |
| 2017 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT 13 | ARG 13 | AME 14 | SPA 12 | FRA Ret | ITA 14 | CAT 9 | NED 16 | GER DSQ | CZE 20 | AUT 17 | GBR 14 | RSM Ret | ARA 18 | JPN 14 | AUS 20 | MAL 14 | VAL 15 | | 22nd | 28 |
| 2018 | Moto2 | Kalex | QAT 13 | ARG 20 | AME 18 | SPA 14 | FRA 11 | ITA Ret | CAT | NED | GER | CZE | AUT | GBR | RSM | ARA | THA | JPN | AUS | MAL | VAL | 23rd | 10 |

### Supersport World Championship
#### Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos | Pts |
| 2018 | Kawasaki | AUS | THA | SPA | NED | ITA | GBR | CZE | ITA | POR 11 | FRA 10 | ARG 9 | QAT 7 | 17th | 27 |
| 2019 | Yamaha | AUS 4 | THA 7 | SPA DNS | NED | ITA | SPA | ITA | GBR | POR | FRA | ARG | QAT | 16th | 22 |

### Superbike World Championship
#### Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Bike | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | Pos | Pts |
| Year | Bike | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | R1 | SR | R2 | Pos | Pts |
| 2019 | Kawasaki | AUS | AUS | AUS | THA | THA | THA | SPA | SPA | SPA | NED 16 | NED C | NED 16 | ITA 13 | ITA 14 | ITA C | SPA | SPA | SPA | ITA | ITA | ITA | GBR | GBR | GBR | USA | USA | USA | POR | POR | POR | FRA | FRA | FRA | ARG | ARG | ARG | QAT | QAT | QAT | 27th | 3 |

### AMA Superbike Championship
#### Races by year

| Season | Bike | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Round | Plcd. | Pts. |
| 2021 | BMW | RAT | RAT | VIR | VIR | RAM | RAM | RID | RID | MON | MON | BRA | BRA | PIT | PIT | NJE | NJE | NJE | ALA | ALA | ALA | 7th | 157 |
| 2021 | BMW | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | 7th | 157 |
| 2021 | BMW | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 | Ret | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | Ret | 7th | 157 |
| 2022 | BMW | TEX | TEX | ATL | ATL | VIR | VIR | RAM | RAM | RID | RID | MON | MON | BRA | BRA | PIT | PIT | NJE | NJE | ALA | ALA | 5th | 190 |
| 2022 | BMW | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | 5th | 190 |
| 2022 | BMW | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | Ret | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 5th | 190 |

### British Superbike Championship
#### By year

| Year | Bike | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | Pos | Pts |
| Year | Bike | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | Pos | Pts |
| 2020 | BMW | DON Ret | DON 10 | DON 10 | SNE 14 | SNE Ret | SNE 15 | SIL 13 | SIL 10 | SIL 12 | OUL 18 | OUL 15 | OUL 14 | DON 22 | DON Ret | DON Ret | BHGP 16 | BHGP Ret | BHGP 15 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 17th | 32 |
| 2023 | Honda | SIL Ret | SIL 18 | SIL 15 | OUL 21 | OUL 20 | OUL 21 | DON | DON | DON | KNO | KNO | KNO | SNE | SNE | SNE | BRH | BRH | BRH | THR | THR | THR | CAD | CAD | CAD | OUL | OUL | OUL | DON | DON | DON | BRH | BRH | BRH | 24th | 1 |