2020 Austrian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 15 races in the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 August 2020
Official name	myWorld Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich
Location	Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Styria, Austria
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.318 km (2.683 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Maverick Viñales Yamaha Time 1:23.450 Fastest lap Rider Álex Rins Suzuki Time 1:24.007 on lap 7 Podium First Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Second Joan Mir Suzuki Third Jack Miller Ducati
Moto2
Pole position Rider Remy Gardner Kalex Time 1:28.681 Fastest lap Rider Jorge Martín Kalex Time 1:29.102 on lap 2 Podium First Jorge Martín Kalex Second Luca Marini Kalex Third Marcel Schrötter Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Raúl Fernández KTM Time 1:36.277 Fastest lap Rider Darryn Binder KTM Time 1:36.670 on lap 4 Podium First Albert Arenas KTM Second Jaume Masiá Honda Third John McPhee Honda

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.

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

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

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

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

• Stefan Bradl replaced Marc Márquez from the Czech Republic round onwards while he recovered from injuries sustained in his opening round crash. ^[4]
• Ducati test rider Michele Pirro replaced Francesco Bagnaia in Austria while he recovered from injuries sustained in a crash during practice at the Czech round.^{[ citation needed]}

Qualifying

MotoGP

Q1

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

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

MotoGP

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

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

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

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

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Fabio Quartararo 67 2 2 Andrea Dovizioso 56 1 3 Maverick Viñales 48 1 4 Brad Binder 41 2 5 Valentino Rossi 38

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 81 1 2 Ducati 67 1 3 KTM 57 1 4 Suzuki 44 1 5 Honda 37

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Petronas Yamaha SRT 98 2 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 86 1 3 Ducati Team 76 1 4 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 60 2 5 Team Suzuki Ecstar 50

Moto2

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 1 Luca Marini 78 1 2 Enea Bastianini 73 3 3 Jorge Martín 59 4 Sam Lowes 59 2 5 Tetsuta Nagashima 55

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Kalex 125 2 Speed Up 48 3 MV Agusta 13 4 NTS 9

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 1 Sky Racing Team VR46 118 1 2 Red Bull KTM Ajo 114 1 3 EG 0,0 Marc VDS 84 1 4 Italtrans Racing Team 73 5 Openbank Aspar Team 60

Moto3

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Albert Arenas 95 1 2 John McPhee 67 1 3 Ai Ogura 65 4 Tatsuki Suzuki 50 5 Raúl Fernández 43

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 1 KTM 111 1 2 Honda 110 3 Husqvarna 17

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Valresa Aspar Team 108 3 2 Leopard Racing 71 1 3 Sic58 Squadra Corse 71 2 4 Petronas Sprinta Racing 67 1 5 Honda Team Asia 65

Notes

References

External links

• "MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 13 August 2020.