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2020 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2020 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the fourth round of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship. It was held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on 16 August 2020. Brad Binder was the defending MotoGP race winner who aimed for his second consecutive Grand Prix win, having won his and KTM's first race at the previous round.

Austria  2020 Austrian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 5 of 15 races in the
2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date16 August 2020
Official namemyWorld Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich
LocationRed Bull Ring
Spielberg, Styria, Austria
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 4.318 km (2.683 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Spain Maverick Viñales Yamaha
Time 1:23.450
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Álex Rins Suzuki
Time 1:24.007 on lap 7
Podium
First Italy Andrea Dovizioso Ducati
Second Spain Joan Mir Suzuki
Third Australia Jack Miller Ducati
Moto2
Pole position
Rider Australia Remy Gardner Kalex
Time 1:28.681
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Jorge Martín Kalex
Time 1:29.102 on lap 2
Podium
First Spain Jorge Martín Kalex
Second Italy Luca Marini Kalex
Third Germany Marcel Schrötter Kalex
Moto3
Pole position
Rider Spain Raúl Fernández KTM
Time 1:36.277
Fastest lap
Rider South Africa Darryn Binder KTM
Time 1:36.670 on lap 4
Podium
First Spain Albert Arenas KTM
Second Spain Jaume Masiá Honda
Third United Kingdom John McPhee Honda

Andrea Dovizioso was the defending race winner, having won the race in 2019.[1][2][3] The race was won by Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso with Joan Mir in second for Suzuki, his first podium in MotoGP, while Jack Miller finished third for Pramac Racing.

The race day was notable for an unprecedented series of accidents in the MotoGP and Moto2 category respectively. On lap 4 of the Moto2 race, Enea Bastianini, who was fifth at the moment, suffered a huge highside on the exit of turn 1. Several backmarkers behind Bastianini were able to avoid hitting his stranded bike, which was laying across the circuit on the approach to the back straight into turn 2. However, Hafizh Syahrin, who was running in seventeenth at the moment, came out of the slipstream of Jake Dixon and hit Bastianini's bike at over 200 kph within fractions of a second. Syahrin then was sent airborne as a result of the accident and landed a further fifty metres ahead of the circuit. Edgar Pons and Andi Farid Izdihar were also involved in this accident. Syahrin was taken to the medical center with the suspicion of a leg injury and was therefore ruled out of the Styrian GP for the upcoming weekend at the same venue.

The second crash occurred on lap 9 of the MotoGP race involving Johann Zarco and Franco Morbidelli, who came together on the approach to turn 3. By making contact with each other, Morbidelli and Zarco each fell off their bikes, with Morbidelli's bike sliding across the grass on the outside of the track in full speed, then slightly taking-off before somersaulting multiple times and then flying straight back on track onto the apex of turn 3 and narrowly missing out both Yamaha factory riders Maverick Viñales and Valentino Rossi in the process, who were running in sixth and seventh place respectively. After missing both, the bike itself somersaulted a further multiple times before it came to a rest on the tarmac run-off completely destroyed. Zarco's bike however tangentially hit the safer barrier at high-speed and flew above the circuit also narrowly missing out Viñales and suffered extremely terminal damage such as Morbidelli's wrecked bike.

Both races were immediately red-flagged due to respective track-cleaning actions.

Background edit

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic edit

See also: 2020 MotoGP season § Calendar changes as a reaction to COVID-19 pandemic, and COVID-19 pandemic in Austria

The opening rounds of 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. However, the Austrian Grand Prix was not impacted by this change and kept its original date.

MotoGP Championship standings before the race edit

After the third round at the Czech Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo on 59 points, leads the championship by 17 points over Maverick Viñales, with Franco Morbidelli a further 28 points behind. In Teams' Championship, Petronas Yamaha SRT with 90 points, lead the championship from Monster Energy Yamaha, who have 69. KTM Factory Racing sit 22 points behind the factory Yamaha in third, and are only 5 points ahead of fourth-placed Ducati Team, who have 42 points, while Esponsorama Racing sit 5th on 35 points.

MotoGP Entrants edit

Further information: 2020 MotoGP season § Rider changes

Qualifying edit

MotoGP edit

Q1 edit

Johann Zarco and Valentino Rossi qualified for Q2.

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Time
1 5   Johann Zarco Ducati 1'23.865
2 46   Valentino Rossi Yamaha 1'23.891
3 9   Danilo Petrucci Ducati 1'23.915
4 41   Aleix Espargaró Aprilia 1'24.151
5 35   Cal Crutchlow Honda 1'24.228
6 27   Iker Lecuona KTM 1'24.405
7 33   Brad Binder KTM 1'24.485
8 73   Álex Márquez Honda 1'24.490
9 6   Stefan Bradl Honda 1'24.662
10 38   Bradley Smith Aprilia 1'24.831
11 53   Tito Rabat Ducati 1'25.287
12 51   Michele Pirro Ducati 1'25.431
OFFICIAL MOTOGP Qualifying Nr. 1 REPORT

Q2 edit

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Time
1 12   Maverick Viñales Yamaha 1'23.450
2 43   Jack Miller Ducati 1'23.518
3 20   Fabio Quartararo Yamaha 1'23.537
4 4   Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 1'23.606
5 44   Pol Espargaró KTM 1'23.612
6 36   Joan Mir Suzuki 1'23.673
7 21   Franco Morbidelli Yamaha 1'23.719
8 42   Álex Rins Suzuki 1'23.731
9 5   Johann Zarco Ducati 1'23.828
10 30   Takaaki Nakagami Honda 1'23.872
11 88   Miguel Oliveira KTM 1'23.939
12 46   Valentino Rossi Yamaha 1'23.995
OFFICIAL MOTOGP Qualifying Nr. 2 REPORT

Race edit

MotoGP edit

The race, scheduled to be run for 28 laps, was red-flagged after 8 full laps due to an accident involving Johann Zarco and Franco Morbidelli. The race was later restarted over 20 laps with the starting grid determined by the classification of lap 8.

Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 4   Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Team Ducati 20 28:20.853 4 25
2 36   Joan Mir Team Suzuki Ecstar Suzuki 20 +1.377 6 20
3 43   Jack Miller Pramac Racing Ducati 20 +1.549 2 16
4 33   Brad Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 20 +5.526 17 13
5 46   Valentino Rossi Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 20 +5.837 12 11
6 30   Takaaki Nakagami LCR Honda Idemitsu Honda 20 +6.403 10 10
7 9   Danilo Petrucci Ducati Team Ducati 20 +12.498 13 9
8 20   Fabio Quartararo Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 20 +12.534 3 8
9 27   Iker Lecuona Red Bull KTM Tech3 KTM 20 +14.117 16 7
10 12   Maverick Viñales Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 20 +15.276 1 6
11 41   Aleix Espargaró Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 20 +17.772 14 5
12 51   Michele Pirro Pramac Racing Ducati 20 +23.271 22 4
13 38   Bradley Smith Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 20 +24.868 20 3
14 73   Álex Márquez Repsol Honda Team Honda 20 +24.943 18 2
15 35   Cal Crutchlow LCR Honda Castrol Honda 20 +27.435 15 1
16 53   Tito Rabat Esponsorama Racing Ducati 20 +28.502 21
17 6   Stefan Bradl Repsol Honda Team Honda 20 +28.609 19
Ret 42   Álex Rins Team Suzuki Ecstar Suzuki 10 Accident 8
Ret 44   Pol Espargaró Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 8 Collision 5
Ret 88   Miguel Oliveira Red Bull KTM Tech3 KTM 8 Collision 11
Ret 21   Franco Morbidelli Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 0 Did not restart 7
Ret 5   Johann Zarco Esponsorama Racing Ducati 0 Did not restart 9
Fastest lap:   Álex Rins (Suzuki) – 1:24.007 (lap 7)
Sources:[5][6][7]

Moto2 edit

The race, scheduled to be run for 25 laps, was red-flagged after 3 full laps due to an accident involving Enea Bastianini, Hafizh Syahrin, Edgar Pons, and Andi Farid Izdihar. The race was later restarted over 13 laps.

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 88   Jorge Martín Kalex 13 19:24.723 2 25
2 10   Luca Marini Kalex 13 +2.195 8 20
3 23   Marcel Schrötter Kalex 13 +4.782 3 16
4 22   Sam Lowes Kalex 13 +7.249 6 13
5 97   Xavi Vierge Kalex 13 +7.325 16 11
6 72   Marco Bezzecchi Kalex 13 +7.771 10 10
7 12   Thomas Lüthi Kalex 13 +9.405 9 9
8 37   Augusto Fernández Kalex 13 +9.598 12 8
9 44   Arón Canet Speed Up 13 +10.023 5 7
10 16   Joe Roberts Kalex 13 +10.890 11 6
11 7   Lorenzo Baldassarri Kalex 13 +11.170 13 5
12 77   Dominique Aegerter NTS 13 +11.803 24 4
13 35   Somkiat Chantra Kalex 13 +13.002 17 3
14 96   Jake Dixon Kalex 13 +13.385 15 2
15 40   Héctor Garzó Kalex 13 +15.865 21 1
16 11   Nicolò Bulega Kalex 13 +15.897 14
17 62   Stefano Manzi MV Agusta 13 +15.913 19
18 42   Marcos Ramírez Kalex 13 +16.222 26
19 19   Lorenzo Dalla Porta Kalex 13 +18.830 27
20 24   Simone Corsi MV Agusta 13 +22.614 28
21 21   Fabio Di Giannantonio Speed Up 13 +25.079 23
22 64   Bo Bendsneyder NTS 13 +29.300 29
23 99   Kasma Daniel Kalex 13 +36.648 30
Ret 87   Remy Gardner Kalex 4 Accident 1
Ret 45   Tetsuta Nagashima Kalex 3 Accident 18
Ret 9   Jorge Navarro Speed Up 0 Accident 7
Ret 33   Enea Bastianini Kalex 0 Did not restart 4
Ret 55   Hafizh Syahrin Speed Up 0 Did not restart 20
Ret 57   Edgar Pons Kalex 0 Did not restart 22
Ret 27   Andi Farid Izdihar Kalex 0 Did not restart 25
OFFICIAL MOTO2 RACE REPORT

Moto3 edit

Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 75   Albert Arenas KTM 23 37:25.323 2 25
2 5   Jaume Masiá Honda 23 +0.049 4 20
3 17   John McPhee Honda 23 +0.447 3 16
4[N 1] 79   Ai Ogura Honda 23 +0.121 13 13
5[N 1] 13   Celestino Vietti KTM 23 +0.292 5 11
6[N 2] 40   Darryn Binder KTM 23 +0.275 22 10
7 14   Tony Arbolino Honda 23 +0.487 8 9
8 53   Deniz Öncü KTM 23 +1.083 10 8
9 25   Raúl Fernández KTM 23 +1.136 1 7
10 24   Tatsuki Suzuki Honda 23 +1.177 6 6
11 2   Gabriel Rodrigo Honda 23 +2.221 7 5
12[N 1] 16   Andrea Migno KTM 23 +1.924 12 4
13 71   Ayumu Sasaki KTM 23 +2.596 16 3
14 52   Jeremy Alcoba Honda 23 +2.228 18 2
15 82   Stefano Nepa KTM 23 +2.609 19 1
16 11   Sergio García Honda 23 +2.866 20
17 55   Romano Fenati Husqvarna 23 +2.920 30
18 54   Riccardo Rossi KTM 23 +3.486 9
19 23   Niccolò Antonelli Honda 23 +4.276[N 3] 15
20 27   Kaito Toba KTM 23 +4.309 17
21 7   Dennis Foggia Honda 23 +5.776 11
22 99   Carlos Tatay KTM 23 +8.485 25
23 21   Alonso López Husqvarna 23 +10.963[N 3] 31
24 6   Ryusei Yamanaka Honda 23 +23.563 21
25 73   Maximilian Kofler KTM 23 +23.814 26
26 92   Yuki Kunii Honda 23 +23.970 24
27[N 1] 9   Davide Pizzoli KTM 23 +23.929 27
28[N 1] 50   Jason Dupasquier KTM 23 +24.064 29
Ret 12   Filip Salač Honda 22 Retired 14
Ret 70   Barry Baltus KTM 6 Accident 23
DNS 89   Khairul Idham Pawi Honda 0 Did not start 28
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT
  • Khairul Idham Pawi withdrew from the event due to effects of a broken finger suffered at the previous round in Czech Republic.

Championship standings after the race edit

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.[8][9][10]

MotoGP edit

Moto2 edit

Moto3 edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d e 1-position penalty for exceeding track limits on the last lap.
  2. ^ 2-position penalty for exceeding track limits on the last lap.
  3. ^ a b 3-second penalty.

References edit

  1. ^ "2019 Austrian MotoGP | Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motor Sport Magazine. 12 August 2019.
  2. ^ "motogp.com · myWorld MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX VON ÖSTERREICH · MotoGP Race Classification 2019". www.motogp.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  3. ^ "OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT" (PDF). Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Stefan Bradl joins Alex Marquez in Brno while Marc Marquez recovers". Honda Racing Corporation. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  5. ^ "2020 Austrian MotoGP | Motorsport Database".
  6. ^ S.L, Dorna. "motogp.com · GP RESULTS - 2020 MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX VON ÖSTERREICH MotoGP RAC Classification". motogp.com. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  7. ^ "OFFICIAL MOTOGP RACE REPORT" (PDF). Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  8. ^ "MotoGP Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Moto2 Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Moto3 Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.

External links edit


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