2020 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2020 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the third round of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship. It was held at the Brno Circuit in Brno on 9 August 2020. Fabio Quartararo was the defending MotoGP race winner who aimed for his second consecutive Grand Prix win, having won the previous round.

  2020 Czech Grand Prix

Race details
Race 4 of 15 races in the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	9 August 2020
Official name	Monster Energy Grand Prix České republiky[1][2]
Location	Brno Circuit Brno, Czech Republic
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.403 km (3.357 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Johann Zarco Ducati Time 1:55.687 Fastest lap Rider Brad Binder KTM Time 1:57.445 on lap 3 Podium First Brad Binder KTM Second Franco Morbidelli Yamaha Third Johann Zarco Ducati
Moto2
Pole position Rider Joe Roberts Kalex Time 2:01.692 Fastest lap Rider Enea Bastianini Kalex Time 2:02.763 on lap 2 Podium First Enea Bastianini Kalex Second Sam Lowes Kalex Third Joe Roberts Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Raúl Fernández KTM Time 2:08.372 Fastest lap Rider Jaume Masiá Honda Time 2:08.885 on lap 2 Podium First Dennis Foggia Honda Second Albert Arenas KTM Third Ai Ogura Honda

In the MotoGP class, Brad Binder took his first victory in the premier class, the first for a South African rider, the first non-European rider to win since Australian Jack Miller in the 2016 Dutch TT, as well the first rookie to win a Grand Prix since Marc Márquez in 2013. With KTM's victory, this race marks the first time a non-Japanese and Italian constructor won a Grand Prix since German constructor König won the 1973 Yugoslavian Grand Prix. In addition, the KTM used the WP Suspension, which is marked the first non-Öhlins suspension to win a race since 2009 Valencian Grand Prix.

Background

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

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

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 Czech Republic Grand Prix was not impacted by this change and kept its original date.

MotoGP Championship standings before the race

After the second round at the Andalusian Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo on 50 points, leads the championship by ten points over Maverick Viñales, with Andrea Dovizioso a further 14 points behind. In Teams' Championship, Petronas Yamaha SRT with 61 points, lead the championship from Monster Energy Yamaha, who have 56. Ducati Team sit 23 points behind the factory Yamaha in third, and are only 11 points ahead of fourth-placed LCR Honda, who have 22 points, while Pramac Racing sit 5th on 22 points.

MotoGP Entrants

Further information: 2020 MotoGP season § Rider changes

Stefan Bradl replaced Marc Márquez from the Czech Republic round onwards while he recovered from injuries sustained in his opening round crash.^[3]

MotoGP Qualifying

Q1

In Q1, Álex Rins set the fastest lap of the session with the factory KTM of Brad Binder 0.6 secs behind. Miguel Oliveira was 0.98 sec behind Rins.

Q2

Quartararo initially set a lap of 1.55.990 during his first run. A few minutes later, Johann Zarco recorded a 1.55.687 to secure pole position, and Quartararo achieved second place after crashing on his final run, 0.303 seconds back. Franco Morbidelli was third fastest, 0.311 behind pole position. The rest of the top 10 were: Aleix Espargaró, Maverick Viñales, Pol Espargaró, Brad Binder, Danilo Petrucci, Joan Mir, Valentino Rossi.

This was the first pole position in MotoGP for Esponsorama Racing while being Zarco's 5th overall.

Race

MotoGP

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	21	41:38.764	7	25
2	21	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	21	+5.266	3	20
3	5	Johann Zarco	Esponsorama Racing	Ducati	21	+6.470	1	16
4	42	Álex Rins	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	21	+6.609	11	13
5	46	Valentino Rossi	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	21	+7.517	10	11
6	88	Miguel Oliveira	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	21	+7.969	13	10
7	20	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	21	+11.827	2	9
8	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	21	+12.862	17	8
9	43	Jack Miller	Pramac Racing	Ducati	21	+15.013	14	7
10	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	21	+15.087	4	6
11	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	Ducati	21	+16.455	18	5
12	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati Team	Ducati	21	+18.506	8	4
13	35	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	21	+18.736	12	3
14	12	Maverick Viñales	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	21	+19.720	5	2
15	73	Álex Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+24.597	21	1
16	53	Tito Rabat	Esponsorama Racing	Ducati	21	+29.004	15
17	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	21	+32.290	19
18	6	Stefan Bradl	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	21	+55.977	20
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	9	Accident	6
Ret	36	Joan Mir	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Suzuki	3	Collision	9
Ret	27	Iker Lecuona	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	3	Collision	16
DNS	63	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Racing	Ducati		Did not start
Fastest lap: Brad Binder (KTM) – 1:57.445 (lap 3)
Sources:[4][5][6]

• Francesco Bagnaia suffered a broken tibia in a crash during practice and withdrew from the event.

Moto2

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	33	Enea Bastianini	Kalex	19	39:13.926	3	25
2	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	19	+0.423	2	20
3	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	19	+5.948	1	16
4	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	19	+8.797	10	13
5	37	Augusto Fernández	Kalex	19	+9.392	8	11
6	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	19	+10.306	5	10
7	9	Jorge Navarro	Speed Up	19	+10.575	11	9
8	88	Jorge Martín	Kalex	19	+11.366	6	8
9	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Speed Up	19	+12.875	4	7
10	44	Arón Canet	Speed Up	19	+14.266	15	6
11	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	19	+15.378	20	5
12	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	19	+19.031	12	4
13	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	19	+19.282	21	3
14	11	Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	19	+19.598	19	2
15	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	19	+19.638	7	1
16	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Speed Up	19	+22.245	9
17	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	19	+24.406	25
18	64	Bo Bendsneyder	NTS	19	+25.065	17
19	42	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	19	+25.170	16
20	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	19	+26.727	26
21	77	Dominique Aegerter	NTS	19	+27.004	22
22	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	19	+29.986	18
23	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	19	+36.034	24
24	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	19	+36.411	27
25	27	Andi Farid Izdihar	Kalex	19	+45.780	28
Ret	62	Stefano Manzi	MV Agusta	11	Accident	13
Ret	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	10	Rear Brakes	14
Ret	40	Héctor Garzó	Kalex	5	Accident	23
Ret	99	Kasma Daniel	Kalex	3	Accident	29
DNS	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTO2 RACE REPORT

• Simone Corsi suffered a broken toe in a crash during warm-up and was declared unfit to start the race.

Moto3

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda	18	39:06.370	5	25
2	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	18	+0.205	7	20
3	79	Ai Ogura	Honda	18	+0.251	4	16
4	23	Niccolò Antonelli	Honda	18	+0.381	12	13
5	17	John McPhee	Honda	18	+0.509	18	11
6	25	Raúl Fernández	KTM	18	+0.808	1	10
7	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Honda	18	+0.889	6	9
8	14	Tony Arbolino	Honda	18	+1.647	8	8
9	55	Romano Fenati	Husqvarna	18	+1.648	9	7
10	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	18	+8.815	14	6
11	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	18	+8.828	16	5
12	40	Darryn Binder	KTM	18	+8.849	15	4
13	13	Celestino Vietti	KTM	18	+8.866	24	3
14	16	Andrea Migno	KTM	18	+8.986	11	2
15	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	18	+9.089	19	1
16	11	Sergio García	Honda	18	+9.124	27
17	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Honda	18	+9.589	17
18	99	Carlos Tatay	KTM	18	+9.723	22
19	2	Gabriel Rodrigo	Honda	18	+12.594	2
20	71	Ayumu Sasaki	KTM	18	+12.656	28
21	70	Barry Baltus	KTM	18	+23.720	21
22	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Honda	18	+23.766	30
23	50	Jason Dupasquier	KTM	18	+31.955	29
24	9	Davide Pizzoli	KTM	18	+36.734	31[N 1]
25	12	Filip Salač	Honda	18	+47.046	20
Ret	5	Jaume Masiá	Honda	15	Accident	13
Ret	92	Yuki Kunii	Honda	14	Accident Damage	10
Ret	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	9	Accident	3
Ret	21	Alonso López	Husqvarna	9	Accident	25
Ret	73	Maximilian Kofler	KTM	8	Accident Damage	26
Ret	54	Riccardo Rossi	KTM	7	Accident	23
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT

Championship standings after the race

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.^[7][8][9]

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Fabio Quartararo 59 2 Maverick Viñales 42 7 3 Franco Morbidelli 31 1 4 Andrea Dovizioso 31 13 5 Brad Binder 28

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Yamaha 70 2 2 KTM 44 1 3 Ducati 42 1 4 Honda 27 5 Suzuki 24

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Petronas Yamaha SRT 90 2 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 69 3 3 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 47 1 4 Ducati Team 42 2 5 Esponsorama Racing 35

Moto2

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 1 Enea Bastianini 73 1 2 Luca Marini 58 2 3 Tetsuta Nagashima 55 3 4 Sam Lowes 46 1 5 Arón Canet 36

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Kalex 100 2 Speed Up 41 3 MV Agusta 13 4 NTS 5

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Red Bull KTM Ajo 89 2 Sky Racing Team VR46 88 3 Italtrans Racing Team 73 2 4 EG 0,0 Marc VDS 63 1 5 Openbank Aspar Team 53

Moto3

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Albert Arenas 70 2 2 Ai Ogura 52 3 John McPhee 51 2 4 Tatsuki Suzuki 44 2 5 Raúl Fernández 36

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 1 Honda 90 1 2 KTM 86 3 Husqvarna 17

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Gaviota Aspar Team 82 2 Sic58 Squadra Corse 65 3 Kömmerling Gresini Moto3 58 2 4 Honda Team Asia 52 4 5 Leopard Racing 51

Notes

1. Back of the grid start penalty.