2020 European motorcycle Grand Prix

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Race details
Race 13 of 15 races in the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 November 2020
Official name	Gran Premio de Europa
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo Cheste, Valencia, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Spain Pol Espargaró KTM Time 1:40.434 Fastest lap Rider South Africa Brad Binder KTM Time 1:31.884 on lap 22 Podium First Spain Joan Mir Suzuki Second Spain Álex Rins Suzuki Third Spain Pol Espargaró KTM
Moto2
Pole position Rider Spain Xavi Vierge Kalex Time 1:38.936 Fastest lap Rider Spain Héctor Garzó Kalex Time 1:35.584 on lap 4 Podium First Italy Marco Bezzecchi Kalex Second Spain Jorge Martín Kalex Third Australia Remy Gardner Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider United Kingdom John McPhee Honda Time 1:52.252 Fastest lap Rider Spain Albert Arenas KTM Time 1:39.030 on lap 7 Podium First Spain Raúl Fernández KTM Second Spain Sergio García Honda Third Japan Ai Ogura Honda

The 2020 European motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the Gran Premio de Europa) was the thirteenth round of the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the twelfth round of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Cheste on 8 November 2020.

The opening rounds of the 2020 championship have been 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. A new calendar based exclusively in Europe was announced on 11 June. The organizers of the Valencian Community Grand Prix have signed a contract with Dorna Sports, owner of the commercial rights of the sport, to host a double stage at Circuit Ricardo Tormo, becoming the fifth circuit to host two consecutive races of the World Championship, and is the third time it takes place in Spain. But unlike the other double events of the season, the original Grand Prix will be preceded by the round introduced by the new calendar. The name chosen is that of the European Grand Prix, which returns to the world championship for the first time since 1995.

After the eleventh round at the Teruel Grand Prix, Joan Mir leads the drivers' standings with 137 points, 14 more than Fabio Quartararo and 19 more than Maverick Viñales. Franco Morbidelli, after the victory in the Teruel stage, gains two positions and is fourth with 112 points and has three points against Andrea Dovizioso, now fifth.

In the constructors' classification, following the 50-point penalty imposed on Yamaha for failing to comply with the protocol that requires unanimous approval from the Motorcycle Sport Manufacturers Association (MSMA) for technical modifications (Yamaha would have changed valve specifications between the freezing of the homologation just before the abandoned round in Qatar and the opening round at Jerez), Ducati is the new leader with 171 points, followed by Suzuki at 163 points and Yamaha, which has lost the championship lead and now third at 158 points. Honda and KTM are fourth and fifth respectively at 143 and 117 points, while Aprilia closes the standings with 36 points.

In the team standings, Team Suzuki Ecstar leads with 242 points. Petronas Yamaha SRT and Monster Energy Yamaha, following the penalties of 37 and 20 points for technical modifications on their bikes, are respectively second (with 198 points) and fifth (with 156 points), the latter relegated by one position and overtaken by KTM Factory Racing by only one point. Ducati Team is third with 180 points.

• Stefan Bradl replaced Marc Márquez for the tenth straight race while the latter recovered from injuries sustained in his opening round crash.^{[1] [2]}
• Aprilia test rider and former World Superbike rider Lorenzo Savadori has been announced to replace Bradley Smith for the final three rounds in Valencia and Portugal, subsequently excluding Andrea Iannone from a start in 2020.
• Iker Lecuona is forced to miss the European Grand Prix due to Andorran quarantine rules, after his brother and assistant both tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Tech3 elected not to replace him on such short notice.
• After delays to Valentino Rossi's SARS-CoV-2 recovery, Yamaha World Superbike rider Garrett Gerloff was announced initially to replace Rossi at the European Grand Prix. Gerloff completed the Friday sessions of free practice, before two subsequent negative tests from Rossi allowed him to return to the paddock beginning with the third practice session on Saturday.

The first session, held in wet conditions, Jack Miller was the fastest ahead of Franco Morbidelli and Stefan Bradl.^[3] In the second session, on a dry track, Miller confirmed his leadership in the standings ahead of Aleix Espargaró and Morbidelli.^[4] The third session, held in wet conditions, Johann Zarco set the best time ahead of Maverick Viñales and Takaaki Nakagami.^[5]

The top ten riders (written in bold) qualified in Q2.

Pos.	No.	Bikers	Constructor	Free practice times
				FP1[6]	FP2[7]	FP3[8]
1	43	Australia Jack Miller	Ducati	1:42.063	1:32.528	No time
2	41	Spain Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	1:43.461	1:32.620	1:42.957
3	21	Italy Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:42.530	1:32.804	1:42.831
4	30	Japan Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:43.230	1:32.866	1:41.071
5	44	Spain Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:42.841	1:32.952	1:42.506
6	42	Spain Álex Rins	Suzuki	1:43.521	1:33.157	1:41.779
7	33	South Africa Brad Binder	KTM	1:42.584	1:33.259	1:43.534
8	4	Italy Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1:42.959	1:33.292	1:42.009
9	20	France Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:44.791	1:33.337	1:43.234
10	36	Spain Joan Mir	Suzuki	1:43.728	1:33.405	1:41.864
11	12	Spain Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	1:43.009	1:33.410	1:40.743
12	35	United Kingdom Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1:43.925	1:33.463	1:41.285
13	88	Portugal Miguel Oliveira	KTM	1:42.877	1:33.483	1:41.352
14	6	Germany Stefan Bradl	Honda	1:42.566	1:33.504	1:41.884
15	63	Italy Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:43.572	1:33.515	1:41.193
16	73	Spain Álex Márquez	Honda	1:42.654	1:33.570	1:41.589
17	5	France Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:42.639	1:33.739	1:40.007
18	9	Italy Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1:42.700	1:33.775	1:42.824
19	32	Italy Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	1:44.527	1:35.661	1:42.301
20	53	Spain Tito Rabat	Ducati	1:44.448	1:36.690	1:42.547
21	46	Italy Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	No time	No time	1:41.642
OFFICIAL MOTOGP COMBINED FREE PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

Personal Best lap

Notes

• Garrett Gerloff participated in the first two sessions having been initially chosen by Yamaha as a replacement for Valentino Rossi (his best times were in FP1 1:43.645, in FP2 1:34.107).

In the fourth session Miguel Oliveira was the fastest ahead of Joan Mir and Miller.^[9]

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Qualifying times		Final grid	Row
				Q1[10]	Q2[11]
1	44	Spain Pol Espargaró	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:40.434	1	1
2	42	Spain Álex Rins	Suzuki	Qualified in Q2	1:40.475	2
3	30	Japan Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:40.530	3
4	5	France Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:40.821	1:40.577	4	2
5	36	Spain Joan Mir	Suzuki	Qualified in Q2	1:40.704	5
6	41	Spain Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:40.8931	92	3
7	43	Australia Jack Miller	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:40.8931	6	2
8	88	Portugal Miguel Oliveira	KTM	1:40.771	1:41.328	7	3
9	21	Italy Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	Qualified in Q2	1:41.557	8
10	33	South Africa Brad Binder	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:41.781	10	4
11	20	France Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	Qualified in Q2	1:41.943	11
12	4	Italy Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:42.249	12
13	6	Germany Stefan Bradl	Honda	1:41.010	N/A	13	5
14	73	Spain Álex Márquez	Honda	1:41.276	N/A	14
15	12	Spain Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	1:41.310	N/A	PL3
16	35	United Kingdom Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1:41.311	N/A	15	5
17	63	Italy Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:41.395	N/A	16	6
18	46	Italy Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1:42.039	N/A	17
19	9	Italy Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1:42.244	N/A	18
20	32	Italy Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	1:42.532	N/A	19	7
21	53	Spain Tito Rabat	Ducati	1:43.030	N/A	20
OFFICIAL MOTOGP QUALIFYING RESULTS

Notes

• ^1 – Aleix Espargaró and Jack Miller set identical times in Q2; Aleix Espargaró was classified ahead as he set his lap time before Miller.
• ^2 – Aleix Espargaró received a 3-place grid penalty for ignoring blue flags.
• ^3 – Maverick Viñales received a penalty for the start of the pit lane for changing the engine and mounting the sixth of the season.

In the warm up, Joan Mir was the fastest ahead of Aleix Espargaró and Jack Miller.^[12]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	36	Spain Joan Mir	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	27	41:37.297	5	25
2	42	Spain Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	27	+0.651	2	20
3	44	Spain Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	27	+1.203	1	16
4	30	Japan Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	27	+2.194	3	13
5	88	Portugal Miguel Oliveira	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	27	+8.046	7	11
6	43	Australia Jack Miller	Pramac Racing	Ducati	27	+8.755	6	10
7	33	South Africa Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	27	+10.137	10	9
8	4	Italy Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	27	+10.801	12	8
9	5	France Johann Zarco	Esponsorama Racing	Ducati	27	+11.550	4	7
10	9	Italy Danilo Petrucci	Ducati Team	Ducati	27	+16.803	18	6
11	21	Italy Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	27	+17.617	8	5
12	6	Germany Stefan Bradl	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	+24.350	13	4
13	12	Spain Maverick Viñales	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	27	+25.403	PL	3
14	20	France Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	27	+39.639	11	2
Ret	32	Italy Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	25	Electronics	19
Ret	73	Spain Álex Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	Accident	14
Ret	53	Spain Tito Rabat	Esponsorama Racing	Ducati	13	Mechanical	20
Ret	63	Italy Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Racing	Ducati	5	Accident	16
Ret	35	United Kingdom Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	5	Accident	15
Ret	46	Italy Valentino Rossi	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	4	Engine	17
Ret	41	Spain Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	0	Accident	9
Fastest lap: South Africa Brad Binder (KTM) – 1:31.884 (lap 22)
Sources:[13] [14] [15]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	72	Italy Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	25	40:06.441	5	25
2	88	Spain Jorge Martín	Kalex	25	+1.941	6	20
3	87	Australia Remy Gardner	Kalex	25	+3.553	4	16
4	33	Italy Enea Bastianini	Kalex	25	+4.494	15	13
5	7	Italy Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	25	+4.648	8	11
6	10	Italy Luca Marini	Kalex	25	+5.142	7	10
7	40	Spain Héctor Garzó	Kalex	25	+5.224	9	9
8	11	Italy Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	25	+8.104	10	8
9	97	Spain Xavi Vierge	Kalex	25	+8.746	1	7
10	9	Spain Jorge Navarro	Speed Up	25	+11.930	19	6
11	44	Spain Arón Canet	Speed Up	25	+12.451	20	5
12	45	Japan Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	25	+13.209	22	4
13	23	Germany Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	25	+13.585	16	3
14	64	Netherlands Bo Bendsneyder	NTS	25	+15.528	14	2
15	62	Italy Stefano Manzi	MV Agusta	25	+19.284	21	1
16	42	Spain Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	25	+20.085	27
17	57	Spain Edgar Pons	Kalex	25	+21.512	23
18	27	Indonesia Andi Farid Izdihar	Kalex	25	+22.965	12
19	12	Switzerland Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	25	+24.769	13
20	19	Italy Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	25	+34.173	25
21	99	Malaysia Kasma Daniel	Kalex	25	+44.355	24
22	74	Poland Piotr Biesiekirski	NTS	25	+59.450	28
Ret	22	United Kingdom Sam Lowes	Kalex	18	Accident Damage	3
Ret	35	Thailand Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	9	Accident	26
Ret	24	Italy Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	5	Accident	18
Ret	21	Italy Fabio Di Giannantonio	Speed Up	2	Accident	11
Ret	16	United States Joe Roberts	Kalex	1	Accident	2
Ret	55	Malaysia Hafizh Syahrin	Speed Up	1	Accident	17
DNS	37	Spain Augusto Fernández	Kalex	Did not start
DNS	96	United Kingdom Jake Dixon	Kalex	Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 RACE REPORT

• Augusto Fernández suffered a foot injury in a crash during practice and withdrew from the event.
• Jake Dixon suffered a fractured right wrist in a crash during practice and withdrew from the event.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	25	Spain Raúl Fernández	KTM	23	38:29.140	2	25
2	11	Spain Sergio García	Honda	23	+0.703	7	20
3	79	Japan Ai Ogura	Honda	23	+1.005	8	16
4	14	Italy Tony Arbolino	Honda	23	+1.037	17	13
5	40	South Africa Darryn Binder	KTM	23	+13.392	9	11
6	99	Spain Carlos Tatay	KTM	23	+13.424	13	10
7	82	Italy Stefano Nepa	KTM	23	+16.719	24	9
8	52	Spain Jeremy Alcoba	Honda	23	+16.824	29	8
9	12	Czech Republic Filip Salač	Honda	23	+16.964	15	7
10	71	Japan Ayumu Sasaki	KTM	23	+17.088	26	6
11	54	Italy Riccardo Rossi	KTM	23	+17.344	6	5
12	16	Italy Andrea Migno	KTM	23	+17.467	11	4
13	55	Italy Romano Fenati	Husqvarna	23	+17.589	16	3
14	53	Turkey Deniz Öncü	KTM	23	+18.191	27	2
15	2	Argentina Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda	23	+18.358	12	1
16	6	Japan Ryusei Yamanaka	Honda	23	+18.441	30
17	92	Japan Yuki Kunii	Honda	23	+19.128	18
18	50	Switzerland Jason Dupasquier	KTM	23	+19.583	20
19	9	Italy Davide Pizzoli	KTM	23	+27.457	23
20	70	Belgium Barry Baltus	KTM	23	+27.836	22
21	73	Austria Maximilian Kofler	KTM	23	+31.328	21
22	89	Malaysia Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	23	+31.661	25
23	13	Italy Celestino Vietti	KTM	23	+1:20.533	3
Ret	23	Italy Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	16	Accident	31
Ret	27	Japan Kaito Toba	KTM	16	Power Loss	10
Ret	24	Japan Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	13	Accident	19
Ret	7	Italy Dennis Foggia	Honda	13	Accident	14
Ret	5	Spain Jaume Masiá	Honda	9	Accident	28
Ret	17	United Kingdom John McPhee	Honda	4	Accident	1
Ret	21	Spain Alonso López	Husqvarna	2	Accident Damage	5
DSQ	75	Spain Albert Arenas	KTM	10	Black flag	4
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT

• Albert Arenas was black flagged for irresponsible riding.

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.^{[16] [17] [18]}

• "MotoGP Official Website". Archived from the original on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.

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