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2020 Qatar Motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2020 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2020 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Losail International Circuit in Doha on 8 March 2020. The MotoGP race was cancelled after Qatari quarantine measures were put in place as a response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Because Moto2 and Moto3 teams were testing at Losail the previous week, teams were staying over in Qatar for that race and officials allowed them to participate in all scheduled events. Classification Moto2 * Sam Lowes withdrew from the event after Friday practice due to a shoulder injury. Moto3 Championship standings after the race Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round. Moto2 ;Riders' Championship standings ;Constructors' Championship standings ;Teams' Championship standings Moto3 ;Riders' Championship standings ;Constructors' Championship standings ;Teams' Championship standings Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Losail International Circuit
The Losail International Circuit or Lusail International Circuit (Arabic: حلبة لوسيل الدولية) is a motor racing circuit located just outside the city of Lusail, north of Doha, Qatar. Built in just under a year by 1,000 workers at the cost of million, the track opened in 2004, named Losail International Circuit, to the inaugural 2004 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix, won by Sete Gibernau. The track is in length, with a main straight of . It is surrounded by artificial grass to stop the sand encroaching on the track. In 2007, Lusail added permanent outdoor lighting for night races. At the time, the lighting of the Lusail Circuit by Musco Lighting was the largest permanent venue sports lighting project in the world, a distinction that now belongs to another Persian Gulf motorsport venue, Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. The first night race in MotoGP history was the 2008 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix in March 2008. In February 2009, a GP2 Asia Series nighttime race to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remy Gardner
Remy Christopher Gardner (born 24 February 1998) is an Australian motorcycle racer, best known for winning the 2021 Moto2 World Championship with Red Bull KTM Ajo. He is the son of 1987 premier class world champion, Wayne Gardner. Career Moto3 World Championship Gardner made his first three appearances in the Moto3 World Championship in 2014, twice as replacement for injured riders and once as a wild card entry, scoring one point in Malaysia. In 2015 he was signed as a full-time rider for the Mahindra-equipped CIP team, riding next to Tatsuki Suzuki. Gardner achieved his best result, his only point scoring finish of the year, in his home GP at Phillip Island with a 10th place finish. Moto2 World Championship Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 (2016) For 2016, Gardner was due to compete in the Moto2 class with AGP Racing aboard a Suter alongside Federico Fuligni, but the team withdrew from the championship. He started the season in the Moto2 European Championship, winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Agusta
MV Agusta (, full name: MV AGUSTA Motor S.p.A., original name: Meccanica Verghera Agusta or MV) is a motorcycle manufacturer founded by Count Domenico Agusta on 19 January 1945 as one of the branches of the Agusta aircraft company near Milan in Cascina Costa, Italy. The abbreviation MV stands for ''Meccanica'' (mechanics) ''Verghera'', the hamlet where the first MVs were made. The modern headquarters and main production facilities are located in Varese, Italy on the shore of Lake Varese. History 1943–1945: From idea to mass production It all began in the early years of the 20th century, when Count Giovanni Agusta left Sicily for northern Italy, where he built his first aircraft, the AG.1, four years after the Wright brothers had made history in the US. The First World War, which demonstrated the prospects of aviation, prompted the count to act decisively – and in 1923, in the town of Samarate, he founded the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Giovanni Agusta S.A. (usually shorte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Manzi
Stefano Manzi (born 29 March 1999) is an Italian motorcycle racer, born in Rimini. Career Junior career Manzi joined the 2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, and had two podiums in his first season already, a 2nd place at the Sachsenring and a 3rd place at Brno. He ended his rookie campaign with 75 points, and 13th in the standings. He returned for both 2013 and 2014, finishing 2013 third in the competition with four 2nd places, and three 3rd places, and again finished third in 2014, with one victory, two 2nd places, and six 3rd places. Moto3 World Championship San Carlo Team Italia (2015) He made his debut in the 2015 Moto3 World Championship, racing from the second round of the season onwards, after being replaced for the opening event by Marco Bezzecchi due to age limits. Riding on a Mahindra MGP3O entered by San Carlo Team Italia, alongside his compatriot Matteo Ferrari, he finished in the points four times, his best result being a twelfth place in Aragon. He ended his rookie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Dixon
Jake Curtis Dixon (born 15 January 1996) is a British Grand Prix motorcycle racer competing for GasGas Aspar Team in the 2022 Moto2 World Championship. Dixon is best known for finishing runner-up in the 2018 British Superbike Championship, and being the youngest to qualify for the championship showdown in 2017. He is the son of Darren Dixon, TT F1 Superbike Champion in 1988 and double World Sidecar Champion in 1995 and 1996. Career Early career At 12 years of age Dixon was competing in the Southern Supermoto Championship before advancing to the Aprilia Superteens Championship in 2010. In his first year competing on tarmac Dixon came 3rd in the Aprilia 125cc Superteens Championship. The winner that year was Chrissy Rouse, later competing against Dixon in the 2018 British Superbike Championship. Dixon advanced up to the Aprilia RRV450 Challenge Championship racing Aprilia's twin cylinder four-stroke machine. Once again he was 3rd in the Championship that year. Supersport 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Di Giannantonio
Fabio Di Giannantonio (born 10 October 1998) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, riding for Gresini Racing in MotoGP. Career Early career Born in Rome, in 2015 Di Giannantonio finished as the runner-up in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, where he had debuted the year before, and in the CIV Moto3 championship; Moto3 World Championship Gresini Racing Moto3 (2015–2016) In the same year he made his Grand Prix debut in the Moto3 World Championship with the Gresini Racing team at the Valencian Grand Prix as the replacement for the injured Andrea Locatelli, finishing the race in 23rd place. For 2016 he was signed by the same team as a full-time rider in the same class. At the sixth race of the season, at Mugello, Di Giannantonio achieved his first championship points and his first podium finish with a second place, starting a streak of top ten finishes—including two more podiums, another second place at Assen and a third place in Brno. Del Conca Gresini Moto3 (2017–2018) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Bezzecchi
Marco Bezzecchi (born 12 November 1998) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, competing for Mooney VR46 Racing Team in the 2023 MotoGP World Championship. Career Junior career Bezzecchi won the Italian Moto3 championship in 2015, and also made his debut in the 2015 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship that season. He ended the year 16th in the standings, with 29 points, finishing in the top-10 on three occasions. The 2016 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship was very similar for him, finishing in the top-10 three times, this time scoring 31 points, enough for 18th in the standings. Moto3 World Championship Bezzecchi made his debut in the 2015 Moto3 World Championship, with two wild-card appearances, finishing 26th in Qatar, and retiring in his home Grand Prix of Italy. Mahindra Racing (2016) In the 2016 season, he again competed in two races, retiring in Austria and finishing 24th in Great Britain. CIP (2017) Bezzecchi competed full time in the 2017 Moto3 World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTS Co
NTS may refer to: Broadcasting * NTS Radio Online Radio Station, Hackney, Great Britain * National Traffic System, an organized network of amateur radio operators * National Television Service, television channel in Papua New Guinea * ''Nederlandse Televisie Stichting'', now Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Dutch Television Organization) Education * National Technological University (United States), Fort Collins, Colorado * National Testing Service, an academic testing service in Pakistan * National Theatre School of Canada * National Training System (Australia), the Australian system for vocational education and training * National Treasury School, the French government's school for training civil servants * Nazarene Theological Seminary, a theological seminary in Kansas City * The Nelson Thomlinson School in Cumbria, Great Britain * ''New Testament Studies'', an academic journal Science * Nevada Test Site, nuclear testing * National Topographic System, used by Natural Resource ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Bendsneyder
Bo Bendsneyder (born 4 March 1999) is a Dutch motorcycle racer. He was the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup champion in 2015. Career Moto3 World Championship Red Bull KTM Ajo (2016–2017) In 2016 he made his debut in the Moto3 class, Riding for the Red Bull KTM Ajo team. He got two podiums (Great Britain and Malaysia) and closed the season in fourteenth place in the riders' championship standings with 78 points. In 2017 he stayed with the same team. His best result was a fourth place in the Czech Republic and ended the season in fifteenth place in the riders' championship standings with 65 points. Moto2 World Championship Tech 3 Racing (2018) In 2018 he moved to Moto2 with Tech 3. He concluded the season in 29th place with 2 points, his best finish was fourteenth place in Thailand. During the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix he suffered a broken tibia due to flying shrapnel from an engine explosion on the last lap of the race. NTS RW Racing GP (2019–2020) In 2019 he moved to NTS. He got ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lüthi
Thomas Lüthi (born 6 September 1986) is a Swiss sporting director at Prüstel GP, and former Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He spent 19 years in Grand Prix world championships, becoming one of only six riders to reach 300 race starts, spending much of his career with the Interwetten Paddock team, with who he became the 2005 season's 125cc world champion. Career Early career Lüthi was born in Oberdiessbach, Kanton Bern, Switzerland, but grew up in Emmental. Lüthi started racing pocket bikes at the age of nine. He won pocket bike championships in 1999 and 2000. In 2002, he finished second overall in the European 125cc Championship, and third in the German 125cc series. 125cc World Championship Lüthi made his first 125cc World Championship appearance at the 2002 German Grand Prix, which he finished in 26th place. In the 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Lüthi was invited by Daniel Epp to ride for his team, known as the "Elit Grand Prix Team"; Epp became his manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavi Vierge
Xavier Vierge Zafra (born 30 April 1997) is a Spanish motorcycle racer, contracted to race for Honda Racing Corporation in the 2022 Superbike World Championship. Career Early career Born in Barcelona, Vierge was the 2015 FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship runner-up, winning six races, finishing in second three times, and in third place once, out of the eleven races that year. Moto2 World Championship Tech 3 Racing (2015–2017) In the same year, he made his debut in the 2015 Moto2 World Championship as the permanent replacement for Ricard Cardús in the Tech3 team from the tenth round of the season onwards, but failed to score any championship points. He was retained by the team for the 2016 Moto2 season, where he scored his first Grand Prix points in Argentina and achieved a best result of 8th in Sepang. At the end of the season he collected 37 points, and was awarded the Moto2 Rookie of the Year prize, winning it by one point over Miguel Oliveira. He stayed with the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arón Canet
Arón Canet Barbero (born 30 September 1999) is a Spanish motorcycle racer, currently competing in the Moto2 for Pons Racing. Career Early career Canet was the third-place finisher in the 2015 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship. Moto3 World Championship Estrella Galicia 0,0 (2016–2018) In , Canet made his Grand Prix debut in the Moto3 World Championship with the Estrella Galicia 0,0 team riding a Honda. Sterilgarda Max Racing Team (2019) He was a strong contender for the championship in , until a spate of retirements cost him the championship to Lorenzo Dalla Porta Lorenzo Dalla Porta (born 22 June 1997) is an Italian motorcycle racer. He currently competes in the Moto2. He was the FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Champion in 2016 and the CIV 125 GP champion in 2012 . And in 2019 he won the Moto3 World Champions ..., who wrapped up the championship in Australia, after Canet crashed out of the lead on lap 2 of this race. Moto2 World Championship 2020-present In 2020 sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
