2020 Styrian motorcycle Grand Prix

The opening rounds of the 2020 championship were 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.

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 23 August (a week after the first race) to be known as the "Styrian Grand Prix". The race was named for Styria, the state of Austria that the Red Bull Ring is located in. The race was also the second time in the sport's history that the same venue and circuit layout hosted back-to-back World Championship races.

After the fourth round at the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo on 67 points, leads the championship by 11 points over Andrea Dovizioso with Maverick Viñales a further 19 points behind.

In Teams' Championship, Petronas Yamaha SRT with 98 points, lead the championship from Monster Energy Yamaha, who have 86. Ducati Team sit 10 points behind the factory Yamaha in third, and are 16 points ahead of fourth-placed KTM Factory Racing, who have 42 points, while Team Suzuki Ecstar sit 5th on 50 points.

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

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

Pos.	No.	Bikers	Constructor	Free practice times
				FP1	FP2	FP3
1	36	Joan Mir	Suzuki	1:23.961	1:23.907	1:23.456
2	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:24.381	1:24.643	1:23.607
3	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:23.950	1:23.904	1:23.610
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1:23.863	1:24.774	1:23.610
5	12	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	1:24.324	1:24.060	1:23.617
6	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:24.397	1:23.638	1:23.660
7	88	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	1:23.898	1:24.118	1:23.725
8	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:24.198	1:24.187	1:23.727
9	42	Álex Rins	Suzuki	1:24.628	1:24.009	1:23.754
10	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	1:23.859	1:24.925	1:23.795
11	33	Brad Binder	KTM	1:24.251	1:24.427	1:23.798
12	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	No time	No time	1:23.879
13	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1:24.517	1:24.985	1:23.881
14	27	Iker Lecuona	KTM	1:24.301	1:24.429	1:23.889
15	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1:24.699	1:24.378	1:23.950
16	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1:24.764	1:24.560	1:24.126
17	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	1:24.623	1:25.025	1:24.136
18	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati	1:24.508	1:24.807	1:24.296
19	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	1:24.808	1:24.336	1:24.423
20	73	Álex Márquez	Honda	1:24.690	1:24.463	1:24.742
21	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	1:24.914	1:25.057	1:24.617
22	53	Tito Rabat	Ducati	1:24.806	1:25.221	1:25.047
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The first three positions of the session were as follows.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	FP4 Time
1	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:24.450
2	36	Joan Mir	Suzuki	1:24.460
3	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:24.523
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Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	Qualifying times		Final grid
				Q1	Q2
1	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:23.580	1
2	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:23.602	2
3	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:23.609	1:23.632	Pit lane1
4	36	Joan Mir	Suzuki	Qualified in Q2	1:23.678	3
5	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:23.700	4
6	12	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	Qualified in Q2	1:23.778	5
7	42	Álex Rins	Suzuki	Qualified in Q2	1:23.782	6
8	88	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:23.797	7
9	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:23.849	8
10	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	Qualified in Q2	1:23.866	9
11	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	Qualified in Q2	1:24.021	10
12	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1:23.772	1:24.174	11
13	27	Iker Lecuona	KTM	1:23.928	N/A	12
14	33	Brad Binder	KTM	1:23.932	N/A	13
15	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1:24.127	N/A	14
16	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati	1:24.273	N/A	15
17	73	Álex Márquez	Honda	1:24.370	N/A	16
18	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1:24.401	N/A	17
19	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	1:24.416	N/A	18
20	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	1:24.429	N/A	19
21	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	1:24.667	N/A	20
22	53	Esteve Rabat	Ducati	1:24.916	N/A	21
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Notes

• ^1 – Johann Zarco received a pit lane start penalty for his involvement in an accident with Franco Morbidelli in the Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix.

The first three positions of the session are as follows.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	Warm up times
1	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1:24.126
2	36	Joan Mir	Suzuki	1:24.312
3	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:24.353
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The race was run in dry conditions despite the clouds looming. On the opening lap, Joan Mir got a fantastic launch from P3 to the lead the race from polesitter Pol Espargaro, with Miller also getting a great start from fourth on the grid. The Australian got past Espargaro by going up the inside at Turn 2. After running wide and gaining an advantage at Turn 1 on the opening lap Mir was forced to drop a position, thus Miller inherited the race lead. Championship leader Fabio Quartararo made a poor start, and dropped to P14 after running wide at Turn 1. Andrea Dovizioso made a solid start and was up to sixth on Lap 2. Takaaki Nakagami got past Pol Espargaro and the top three slowly pulling clear of the chasing pack.

Lap 5 saw Mir lead the race with Miller and Nakagami half a second clear of Pol Espargaro and Alex Rins and that gap kept climbing as the race went ahead. On Lap 8 the leading trio were 1.4 clear, with the Yamahas dropping down the field.With 14 laps to go, Viñales slowed down and held his hand up to suggest something was wrong with his YZR-M1.Viñales continued but the Spaniard jumped off his Yamaha at Turn 1 in what looked like a brake failure. His machine smashed into the air-fence at Turn 1 and going up in flames. Viñales was able to walk away and brought the red flags out as the race came to a halt, with a 12-laps to go.

The race began for a second time and Mir lead from pole, with Miller falling down from third. Pol Espargaro powered away from the line well but ran slightly wide into Turn 1, allowing Miller to regain position into Turn 2. Miller was leading Mir fought back on the exit but the Ducati rider held the inside line for Turn 6, with Nakagami dropping to seventh. With eight laps to go, Pol Espargaro set the fastest lap of the race. The KTM rider then made his move on Mir at Turn 3. Pol then attempted a pass up into Turn 1 but was wide, allowing Miller to pass and Oliveira and Mir to close in. Mir was then wide at Turn 4, allowing Dovizioso to grab fourth as Miller and Oliveira . The top five were close, however Mir and Dovizioso were about to drop off the pace slightly with Doviziosio running wide again at Turn 9.

Heading onto the last lap, this was between two KTMs and a Ducati. Pol led onto the last lap and got a good run out of the first corner but braked too much defensively. This compromised his exit and Miller made the move stick into the downhill right-hander.Miller held firm through the left-handers but Pol got the run up the hill and swerved to the inside and got underneath Miller. Miller braked late and dived underneath Pol. The duo went wide though and Oliveira, on his normal line, Oliveira got past Miller and Pol to seal a historic victory. Miller held onto second to pick up his second podium of the season, with Pol claiming P3.

The race, scheduled to be run for 28 laps, was red-flagged after 16 full laps due to an accident involving Maverick Viñales. The race was later restarted over 12 laps with the starting grid determined by the classification of the first part.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	88	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	12	16:56.025	7	25
2	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	12	+0.316	4	20
3	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	12	+0.540	1	16
4	36	Joan Mir	Suzuki	12	+0.641	3	13
5	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	12	+1.414	8	11
6	42	Álex Rins	Suzuki	12	+1.450	6	10
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	12	+1.864	2	9
8	33	Brad Binder	KTM	12	+4.150	13	8
9	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	12	+4.517	14	7
10	27	Iker Lecuona	KTM	12	+5.068	12	6
11	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	12	+5.918	11	5
12	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	12	+6.411	19	4
13	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	12	+7.406	9	3
14	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	12	+7.454	22[N 1]	2
15	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	12	+10.191	10	1
16	73	Álex Márquez	Honda	12	+10.524	16
17	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	12	+11.447	17
18	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	12	+11.943	20
19	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	12	+12.732	18
20	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati	12	+14.349	15
21	53	Tito Rabat	Ducati	12	+14.548	21
Ret	12	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	0	Did not restart	5
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Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	25	37:12.461	5	25
2[N 2]	88	Jorge Martín	Kalex	25	-0.060	2	20
3	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	25	+1.027	6	16
4	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex	25	+1.974	3	13
5	12	Thomas Lüthi	Kalex	25	+3.230	7	11
6	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	25	+6.196	19	10
7	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	25	+8.634	12	9
8	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	25	+9.005	13	8
9	40	Héctor Garzó	Kalex	25	+9.620	8	7
10	33	Enea Bastianini	Kalex	25	+10.051	15	6
11	23	Marcel Schrötter	Kalex	25	+10.238	21	5
12	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	25	+14.857	14	4
13	11	Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	25	+17.968	10	3
14	62	Stefano Manzi	MV Agusta	25	+20.956	18	2
15	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	25	+21.189	23	1
16	42	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	25	+21.497	17
17	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	25	+26.471	24
18	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Speed Up	25	+26.952	25
19	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	25	+29.400[N 3]	20
20	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	25	+30.859	27
21	99	Kasma Daniel	Kalex	25	+43.828	30
22	5	Alejandro Medina	Speed Up	25	+55.353	29
23	27	Andi Farid Izdihar	Kalex	25	+1:00.005	22
24	64	Bo Bendsneyder	NTS	25	+1:10.576[N 4]	26
Ret	77	Dominique Aegerter	NTS	19	Mechanical	28
Ret	37	Augusto Fernández	Kalex	14	Accident Damage	4
Ret	9	Jorge Navarro	Speed Up	2	Collision	9
Ret	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	2	Collision	16
Ret	44	Arón Canet	Speed Up	1	Accident	1
DSQ	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	4	Black flag	11
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• Sam Lowes was black flagged for riding in an irresponsible manner, after causing a collision with Jorge Navarro and Somkiat Chantra.