2020 Andalusian motorcycle Grand Prix explained

Grand Prix:	Andalusian
Flag:	Andalucía
Official Name:	Gran Premio Red Bull de Andalucía^[1] ^[2]
Location:	Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain
Course Mi:	2.748
Course Km:	4.423
Race No:	3
Season No:	15
Date:	26 July
Year:	2020
Pole Rider Motogp:	Fabio Quartararo
Pole Rider Motogp Country:	FRA
Pole Rider Motogp Bike:	Yamaha
Pole Time Motogp:	1:37.007
Fast Rider Motogp:	Fabio Quartararo
Fast Rider Motogp Country:	FRA
Fast Rider Motogp Bike:	Yamaha
Fast Time Motogp:	1:38.119 on lap 3
First Rider Motogp:	Fabio Quartararo
First Rider Motogp Country:	FRA
First Rider Motogp Bike:	Yamaha
Second Rider Motogp:	Maverick Viñales
Second Rider Motogp Country:	ESP
Second Rider Motogp Bike:	Yamaha
Third Rider Motogp:	Valentino Rossi
Third Rider Motogp Country:	ITA
Third Rider Motogp Bike:	Yamaha
Pole Rider Moto2:	Marco Bezzecchi
Pole Rider Moto2 Country:	ITA
Pole Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Pole Time Moto2:	1:41.728
Fast Rider Moto2:	Enea Bastianini
Fast Rider Moto2 Country:	ITA
Fast Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Fast Time Moto2:	1:42.077 on lap 2
First Rider Moto2:	Enea Bastianini
First Rider Moto2 Country:	ITA
First Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Second Rider Moto2:	Luca Marini
Second Rider Moto2 Country:	ITA
Second Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Third Rider Moto2:	Marco Bezzecchi
Third Rider Moto2 Country:	ITA
Third Rider Moto2 Bike:	Kalex
Pole Rider Moto3:	Tatsuki Suzuki
Pole Rider Moto3 Country:	JPN
Pole Rider Moto3 Bike:	Honda
Pole Time Moto3:	1:45.410
Fast Rider Moto3:	Jaume Masiá
Fast Rider Moto3 Country:	ESP
Fast Rider Moto3 Bike:	Honda
Fast Time Moto3:	1:46.060 on lap 4
First Rider Moto3:	Tatsuki Suzuki
First Rider Moto3 Country:	JPN
First Rider Moto3 Bike:	Honda
Second Rider Moto3:	John McPhee
Second Rider Moto3 Country:	GBR
Second Rider Moto3 Bike:	Honda
Third Rider Moto3:	Celestino Vietti
Third Rider Moto3 Country:	ITA
Third Rider Moto3 Bike:	KTM
Pole Rider Motoe:	Dominique Aegerter
Pole Rider Motoe Country:	CHE
Pole Rider Motoe Bike:	Energica
Pole Time Motoe:	1:48.158
Fast Rider Motoe:	Eric Granado
Fast Rider Motoe Country:	BRA
Fast Rider Motoe Bike:	Energica
Fast Time Motoe:	1:47.584 on lap 4
First Rider Motoe:	Dominique Aegerter
First Rider Motoe Country:	CHE
First Rider Motoe Bike:	Energica
Second Rider Motoe:	Jordi Torres
Second Rider Motoe Country:	ESP
Second Rider Motoe Bike:	Energica
Third Rider Motoe:	Mattia Casadei
Third Rider Motoe Country:	ITA
Third Rider Motoe Bike:	Energica

The 2020 Andalusian motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the second round of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship. It was held at the Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto in Jerez de la Frontera on 26 July 2020. The Grand Prix was introduced as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was Valentino Rossi's final MotoGP podium before he retired.

Background

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

See also: COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. 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 race was named for Andalusia, the autonomous community of Spain that the Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto is located in. The back-to-back Spanish races would mark the first time that a country hosts back-to-back races in the same season.

Race

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	20	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	25	41:22.666	1	25
2	12	Maverick Viñales	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	25	+4.495	2	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	25	+5.546	4	16
4	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	25	+6.113	8	13
5	36	Joan Mir	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	25	+7.693	10	11
6	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	25	+12.554	14	10
7	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	25	+17.488	12	9
8	73	Álex Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	25	+19.357	21	8
9	5	Johann Zarco	Hublot Reale Avintia	Ducati	25	+23.523	15	7
10	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	25	+27.091	20	6
11	53	Tito Rabat	Hublot Reale Avintia	Ducati	25	+33.628	18	5
12	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	25	+36.306	19	4
13	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	24	+1 lap	13	3
Ret	63	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Racing	Ducati	19	Engine	3
Ret	21	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	16	Valve System	6
Ret	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	12	Accident	9
Ret	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati Team	Ducati	11	Accident	11
Ret	43	Jack Miller	Pramac Racing	Ducati	10	Accident	7
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	8	Accident	16
Ret	27	Iker Lecuona	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	5	Accident Damage	17
Ret	88	Miguel Oliveira	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	0	Collision	5
DNS	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda		Did not start
Fastest lap Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) – 1:38.119 (lap 3)
Sources:^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

• Marc Márquez withdrew from the event due to effects of a broken arm suffered at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	33	Enea Bastianini	Kalex	23	39:23.922	3	25
2	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	23	+2.153	5	20
3	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	23	+3.243	1	16
4	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	23	+3.817	2	13
5	44	Arón Canet	Speed Up	23	+9.155	7	11
6	88	Jorge Martín	Kalex	23	+11.988	6	10
7	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	23	+13.857	9	9
8	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	23	+19.590	12	8
9	62	Stefano Manzi	MV Agusta	23	+20.199	19	7
10	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	23	+20.262	10	6
11	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	23	+20.447	15	5
12	11	Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	23	+21.464	8	4
13	37	Augusto Fernández	Kalex	23	+24.804	23	3
14	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	23	+26.370	14	2
15	42	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	23	+27.018	18	1
16	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	23	+27.126	13
17	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	23	+30.228	26
18	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Speed Up	23	+30.895	11
19	64	Bo Bendsneyder	NTS	23	+41.678	24
20	27	Andi Farid Izdihar	Kalex	23	+41.793	28
Ret	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	20	Accident	16
Ret	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	19	Engine	17
Ret	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Speed Up	12	Accident	22
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Speed Up	9	Accident	4
Ret	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	5	Accident	20
Ret	40	Héctor Garzó	Kalex	4	Accident	27
Ret	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	4	Accident	25
Ret	99	Kasma Daniel	Kalex	3	Accident	29
Ret	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	2	Accident	21
DNS	2	Jesko Raffin	NTS		Did not start
^[6]

• Jesko Raffin withdrew from the event due to a fatigue syndrome.

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	22	39:18.861	1	25
2	17	John McPhee	Honda	22	+0.064	8	20
3	13	Celestino Vietti	KTM	22	+0.134	9	16
4	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	22	+0.628	25	13
5	2	Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda	22	+0.817	3	11
6	25	Raúl Fernández	KTM	22	+2.742	4	10
7	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Honda	22	+3.315	7	9
8	11	Sergio García	Honda	22	+4.853	13	8
9	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Honda	22	+4.887	17	7
10	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	22	+4.988	5	6
11	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	22	+5.301	12	5
12	55	Romano Fenati	Husqvarna	22	+5.603	21	4
13	99	Carlos Tatay	KTM	22	+6.783	11	3
14	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	22	+7.729	22	2
15	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	22	+7.776	20	1
16	92	Yuki Kunii	Honda	22	+17.641	19
17	70	Barry Baltus	KTM	22	+17.416	29
18	73	Maximilian Kofler	KTM	22	+20.821	24
19	50	Jason Dupasquier	KTM	22	+20.833	28
20	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	22	+22.445	26
21	54	Riccardo Rossi	KTM	22	+22.500	27
22	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	22	+34.688	18
Ret	9	Davide Pizzoli	KTM	20	Retired	30
Ret	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda	19	Clutch	23
Ret	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	18	Accident	14
Ret	71	Ayumu Sasaki	KTM	16	Accident Damage	16
Ret	5	Jaume Masiá	Honda	15	Collision Damage	10
Ret	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	14	Accident	6
Ret	79	Ai Ogura	Honda	14	Collision Damage	2
Ret	12	Filip Salač	Honda	8	Knee Pain	15
DNS	21	Alonso López	Husqvarna		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT

• Alonso López suffered a heat exhaustion after Friday practice and withdrew from the event.

MotoE

Pos.	No.	Rider	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	77	Dominique Aegerter	6	10:54.366	1	25
2	40	Jordi Torres	6	+2.688	5	20
3	27	Mattia Casadei	6	+3.759	8	16
4	15	Alex de Angelis	6	+4.484	7	13
5	7	Niccolò Canepa	6	+4.537	9	11
6	35	Lukas Tulovic	6	+5.980	3	10
7	63	Mike Di Meglio	6	+6.133	13	9
8	16	Joshua Hook	6	+6.513	10	8
9	10	Xavier Siméon	6	+8.695	12	7
10	18	Xavi Cardelús	6	+10.583	11	6
11	6	María Herrera	6	+13.594	17	5
12	84	Jakub Kornfeil	6	+13.641	15	4
13	51	Eric Granado	6	+1:37.947	4	3
Ret	11	Matteo Ferrari	4	Collision	2
Ret	55	Alejandro Medina	3	Accident	6
Ret	61	Alessandro Zaccone	0	Collision	14
Ret	70	Tommaso Marcon	0	Collision	16
DNS	66	Niki Tuuli		Did not start
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.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings

		Rider	Points
	1	Fabio Quartararo	50
	2	Maverick Viñales	40
	3	Andrea Dovizioso	26
6	4	Takaaki Nakagami	19
1	5	Pol Espargaró	19

Constructors' Championship standings

		Constructor	Points
	1	Yamaha	50
	2	Ducati	26
1	3	Honda	19
1	4	KTM	19
1	5	Suzuki	11

Teams' Championship standings

		Team	Points
	1	Petronas Yamaha SRT	61
2	2	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	56
1	3	Ducati Team	33
4	4	LCR Honda	22
2	5	Pramac Racing	22

Moto2

Riders' Championship standings

		Rider	Points
	1	Tetsuta Nagashima	50
2	2	Enea Bastianini	48
	3	Luca Marini	45
2	4	Arón Canet	30
3	5	Lorenzo Baldassarri	28

Constructors' Championship standings

		Constructor	Points
	1	Kalex	75
	2	Speed Up	32
	3	MV Agusta	13
	4	NTS	5

Teams' Championship standings

		Team	Points
	1	Red Bull KTM Ajo	76
1	2	Sky Racing Team VR46	65
2	3	Italtrans Racing Team	48
	4	Openbank Aspar Team Moto2	40
3	5	Flexbox HP40	32

Moto3

Riders' Championship standings

		Rider	Points
	1	Albert Arenas	50
3	2	Tatsuki Suzuki	44
	3	John McPhee	40
2	4	Ai Ogura	36
1	5	Gabriel Rodrigo	30

Constructors' Championship standings

		Constructor	Points
	1	KTM	66
	2	Honda	65
	3	Husqvarna	10

Teams' Championship standings

		Team	Points
	1	Solunion Aspar Team Moto3	56
3	2	Sic58 Squadra Corse	52
	3	Kömmerling Gresini Moto3	49
4	4	Petronas Sprinta Racing	40
2	5	Sky Racing Team VR46	40

MotoE

		Rider	Points
2	1	Dominique Aegerter	41
4	2	Jordi Torres	30
2	3	Eric Granado	28
1	4	Mattia Casadei	27
1	5	Lukas Tulovic	23

External links

• Web site: MotoGP Official Website . https://web.archive.org/web/20200725212747/https://www.motogp.com/en/event/Andalucia . dead . 25 July 2020 . 26 July 2020 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2020 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project. www.progcovers.com.
2. Web site: Jerez Circuit | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project. www.progcovers.com.
3. Web site: 2020 Andalucia MotoGP. 26 July 2020. MotorSport .
4. Web site: Gran Premio Red Bull de Andalucía. 2020. MotoGP.
5. Web site: GRAN PREMIO RED BULL DE ANDALUCIA. 2020. MotoGP.
6. Web site: GRAN PREMIO RED BULL DE ANDALUCIA. 2020. Moto2.
7. Web site: MotoGP Standings. 26 July 2020. resources.motogp.com. 7 August 2020.
8. Web site: Moto2 Standings. 26 July 2020. resources.motogp.com. 7 August 2020.
9. Web site: Moto3 Standings. 26 July 2020. resources.motogp.com. 7 August 2020.
10. Web site: MotoE Standings. 26 July 2020. resources.motogp.com. 7 August 2020.