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2023 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

Motorcycle races in Montmeló

  2023 Catalan Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 20 races in the 2023 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	2–3 September 2023
Official name	Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya
Location	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Montmeló, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.657 km (2.894 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Francesco Bagnaia Ducati Time 1:38.639 Fastest lap Rider Maverick Viñales Aprilia Time 1:40.343 on lap 3 Podium First Aleix Espargaró Aprilia Second Maverick Viñales Aprilia Third Jorge Martín Ducati
Moto2
Pole position Rider Jake Dixon Kalex Time 1:44.089 Fastest lap Rider Pedro Acosta Kalex Time 1:44.384 on lap 2 Podium First Jake Dixon Kalex Second Arón Canet Kalex Third Albert Arenas Kalex
Moto3
Pole position Rider Deniz Öncü[a] KTM Time 1:48.509 Fastest lap Rider Daniel Holgado KTM Time 1:48.902 on lap 2 Podium First David Alonso Gas Gas Second Jaume Masià Honda Third José Antonio Rueda KTM
MotoE Race 1
Pole position Rider Jordi Torres Ducati Time 1:48.731 Fastest lap Rider Jordi Torres Ducati Time 1:48.377 on lap 2 Podium First Andrea Mantovani Ducati Second Mattia Casadei Ducati Third Héctor Garzó Ducati
MotoE Race 2
Pole position Rider Jordi Torres Ducati Time 1:48.731 Fastest lap Rider Héctor Garzó Ducati Time 1:48.551 on lap 3 Podium First Mattia Casadei Ducati Second Andrea Mantovani Ducati Third Nicholas Spinelli Ducati

The 2023 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya) was the eleventh round of the 2023 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the seventh round of the 2023 MotoE World Championship. All races (except for both MotoE races which were held on 2 September) were held at the Circuit de Barcelona-CatalunyainMontmeló on 3 September 2023.

Practice[edit]

MotoGP[edit]

Practice[edit]

The top ten riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2.

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor
				Time results[2]
1	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	1:38.686
2	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	1:39.048
3	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:39.061
4	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:39.257
5	33	Brad Binder	KTM	1:39.346
6	73	Álex Márquez	Ducati	1:39.549
7	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	1:39.550
8	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	1:39.621
9	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1:39.628
10	89	Jorge Martín	Ducati	1:39.693
11	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:39.721
12	43	Jack Miller	KTM	1:39.752
13	25	Raúl Fernández	Aprilia	1:39.757
14	88	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	1:39.779
15	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	1:39.807
16	37	Augusto Fernández	KTM	1:39.891
17	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:40.106
18	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:40.155
19	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	1:40.249
20	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:40.886
21	27	Iker Lecuona	Honda	1:40.895
22	36	Joan Mir	Honda	1:41.013
OFFICIAL MOTOGP PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

Qualifying[edit]

MotoGP[edit]

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Qualifying times		Final grid	Row
				Q1[3]	Q2[4]
1	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:38.639	1	1
2	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:38.743	2
3	88	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	1:38.789	1:38.748	3
4	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:38.772	4	2
5	89	Jorge Martín	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:38.797	5
6	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:38.858	6
7	73	Álex Márquez	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:39.053	7	3
8	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:39.054	8
9	33	Brad Binder	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:39.057	9
10	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:39.368	10	4
11	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:39.575	14[b]	5
12	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	1:39.070	1:39.701	11	4
13	43	Jack Miller	KTM	1:39.232	N/A	12
14	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:39.330	N/A	13	5
15	25	Raúl Fernández	Aprilia	1:39.360	N/A	15
16	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:39.452	N/A	16	6
17	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:39.510	N/A	17
18	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	1:39.573	N/A	18
19	37	Augusto Fernández	KTM	1:39.794	N/A	19	7
20	36	Joan Mir	Honda	1:40.214	N/A	20
21	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:40.388	N/A	21
22	27	Iker Lecuona	Honda	1:40.580	N/A	22	8
OFFICIAL MOTOGP QUALIFYING RESULTS

Moto2[edit]

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Qualifying times		Final grid	Row
				Q1[6]	Q2[7]
1	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.089	1	1
2	40	Arón Canet	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.184	2
3	79	Ai Ogura	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.214	3
4	18	Manuel González	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.215	4	2
5	75	Albert Arenas	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.270	5
6	54	Fermín Aldeguer	Boscoscuro	Qualified in Q2	1:44.276	6
7	21	Alonso López	Boscoscuro	Qualified in Q2	1:44.344	7	3
8	11	Sergio García	Kalex	1:44.873	1:44.374	8
9	37	Pedro Acosta	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.373	9
10	7	Barry Baltus	Kalex	1:44.927	1:44.419	10	4
11	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.458	11
12	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	1:44.797	1:44.470	12
13	12	Filip Salač	Kalex	1:44.926	1:44.490	13	5
14	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.682	14
15	13	Celestino Vietti	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.838	15
16	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.906	16	6
17	84	Zonta van den Goorbergh	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:44.983	17
18	42	Marcos Ramírez	Forward	Qualified in Q2	1:45.202	18
19	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Kalex	1:44.930	N/A	19	7
20	14	Tony Arbolino	Kalex	1:45.021	N/A	20
21	8	Senna Agius	Kalex	1:45.104	N/A	21
22	3	Lukas Tulovic	Kalex	1:45.220	N/A	22	8
23	71	Dennis Foggia	Kalex	1:45.248	N/A	23
24	72	Borja Gómez	Kalex	1:45.314	N/A	27[c]
25	33	Rory Skinner	Kalex	1:45.607	N/A	24	9
26	73	Mattia Rato	Kalex	1:45.784	N/A	25
27	67	Alberto Surra	Forward	1:45.905	N/A	26
28	28	Izan Guevara	Kalex	1:45.950	N/A	28	10
29	5	Kohta Nozane	Kalex	1:45.983	N/A	29
30	55	Yeray Ruiz	Forward	1:46.321	N/A	30
OFFICIAL MOTO2 QUALIFYING RESULTS

Moto3[edit]

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Qualifying times		Final grid	Row
				Q1[8]	Q2[9]
1	48	Iván Ortolá	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:48.205	1	1
2	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:48.509	2
3	66	Joel Kelso	CFMoto	1:49.329	1:48.583	3
4	5	Jaume Masià	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:48.641	4	2
5	18	Matteo Bertelle	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:48.654	5
6	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:48.743	6
7	99	José Antonio Rueda	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:48.758	7	3
8	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:48.904	8
9	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:48.932	9
10	54	Riccardo Rossi	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:49.031	10	4
11	96	Daniel Holgado	KTM	1:49.077	1:49.055	11
12	80	David Alonso	Gas Gas	Qualified in Q2	1:49.065	12
13	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Husqvarna	Qualified in Q2	1:49.178	13	5
14	72	Taiyo Furusato	Honda	1:49.413	1:49.211	14
15	55	Romano Fenati	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:49.315	30[d]
16	19	Scott Ogden	Honda	1:49.451	1:49.362	15	6
17	7	Filippo Farioli	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:49.996	16
18	95	Collin Veijer	Husqvarna	Qualified in Q2	1:50.346	17
19	10	Diogo Moreira	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:49.657	18	7
20	38	David Salvador	KTM	1:49.756	N/A	19
21	44	David Muñoz	Honda	1:49.840	N/A	20
22	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Gas Gas	1:50.182	N/A	21	8
23	64	Mario Aji	Honda	1:50.254	N/A	22
24	43	Xavier Artigas	CFMoto	1:50.261	N/A	23
25	92	David Almansa	Husqvarna	1:50.291	N/A	24	9
26	20	Lorenzo Fellon	KTM	1:50.309	N/A	25
27	33	Tatchakorn Buasri	Honda	1:50.404	N/A	26
28	70	Joshua Whatley	Honda	1:50.443	N/A	27	10
29	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	1:50.523	N/A	28
30	63	Syarifuddin Azman	KTM	1:50.847	N/A	29
OFFICIAL MOTO3 QUALIFYING RESULTS

MotoGP Sprint[edit]

The MotoGP Sprint was held on 2 September.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	12	20:02.744	2	12
2	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	12	+1.989	1	9
3	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	12	+2.040	4	7
4	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	12	+2.857	9	6
5	89	Jorge Martín	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	12	+4.341	5	5
6	88	Miguel Oliveira	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	12	+4.940	3	4
7	5	Johann Zarco	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	12	+6.746	6	3
8	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	12	+6.888	10	2
9	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	12	+8.068	11	1
10	73	Álex Márquez	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	12	+10.380	7
11	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	12	+11.823	12
12	10	Luca Marini	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	12	+11.900	18
13	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	12	+12.018	8
14	25	Raúl Fernández	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	12	+13.284	15
15	21	Franco Morbidelli	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	12	+16.207	16
16	43	Jack Miller	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	12	+16.404	13
17	37	Augusto Fernández	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	12	+16.534	19
18	20	Fabio Quartararo	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	12	+17.147	17
19	27	Iker Lecuona	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	12	+18.658	22
20	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	12	+19.080	21
21	36	Joan Mir	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	12	+19.574	20
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	3	Accident	14
Fastest sprint lap: Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia) – 1:39.327 (lap 3)
OFFICIAL MOTOGP SPRINT REPORT

Warm up practice[edit]

MotoGP[edit]

Maverick Viñales set the best time 1:40.082 and was the fastest rider at this session ahead of Aleix Espargaró and Franco Morbidelli.^[10]

Race[edit]

MotoGP[edit]

The race, scheduled to be run for 24 laps, was red-flagged after multiple crashes at turns 1 and 2 during the first lap. The race was later restarted over 23 laps with the original starting grid.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	23	38:56.159	2	25
2	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	23	+0.377	4	20
3	89	Jorge Martín	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	23	+2.831	5	16
4	5	Johann Zarco	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	23	+4.867	6	13
5	88	Miguel Oliveira	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	23	+7.529	3	11
6	73	Álex Márquez	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	23	+10.590	7	10
7	20	Fabio Quartararo	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	23	+10.821	17	9
8	43	Jack Miller	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	23	+10.880	12	8
9	37	Augusto Fernández	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	23	+12.889	19	7
10	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	23	+13.280	8	6
11	10	Luca Marini	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	23	+16.491	18	5
12	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	23	+16.561	10	4
13	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+21.616	11	3
14	21	Franco Morbidelli	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	23	+23.108	16	2
15	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	23	+26.740	21	1
16	27	Iker Lecuona	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	23	+28.860	22
17	36	Joan Mir	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	23	+33.929	20
Ret	25	Raúl Fernández	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	10	Technical issue	15
Ret	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	3	Technical issue	9
Ret	44	Pol Espargaró	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	1	Technical issue	13
DNS	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati		Did not restart	1
DNS	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati		Did not restart	14[b]
Fastest lap: Maverick Viñales (Aprilia) – 1:40.343 (lap 3)
OFFICIAL MOTOGP RACE REPORT

Moto2[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	21	36:51.330	1	25
2	40	Arón Canet	Kalex	21	+0.205	2	20
3	75	Albert Arenas	Kalex	21	+1.027	5	16
4	11	Sergio García	Kalex	21	+2.258	8	13
5	18	Manuel González	Kalex	21	+2.662	4	11
6	37	Pedro Acosta	Kalex	21	+3.664	9	10
7	79	Ai Ogura	Kalex	21	+4.239	3	9
8	21	Alonso López	Boscoscuro	21	+4.314	7	8
9	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	21	+4.607	11	7
10	13	Celestino Vietti	Kalex	21	+8.729	15	6
11	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	21	+9.476	14	5
12	7	Barry Baltus	Kalex	21	+9.596	10	4
13	54	Fermín Aldeguer	Boscoscuro	21	+9.821	6	3
14	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	21	+10.970	12	2
15	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Kalex	21	+11.183	16	1
16	24	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	21	+11.315	18
17	14	Tony Arbolino	Kalex	21	+16.859	20
18	84	Zonta van den Goorbergh	Kalex	21	+18.347	17
19	3	Lukas Tulovic	Kalex	21	+25.537	22
20	72	Borja Gómez	Kalex	21	+25.788	27[c]
21	71	Dennis Foggia	Kalex	21	+26.188	23
22	73	Mattia Rato	Kalex	21	+29.443	25
23	33	Rory Skinner	Kalex	21	+35.208	24
24	5	Kohta Nozane	Kalex	21	+39.363	29
25	28	Izan Guevara	Kalex	21	+52.086	28
26	55	Yeray Ruiz	Forward	21	+53.208	30
Ret	12	Filip Salač	Kalex	16	Retired	13
Ret	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Kalex	8	Retired	19
Ret	8	Senna Agius	Kalex	7	Accident	21
Ret	67	Alberto Surra	Forward	0	Mechanical	26
Fastest lap: Pedro Acosta (Kalex) – 1:44.384 (lap 2)
OFFICIAL MOTO2 RACE REPORT

Moto3[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	80	David Alonso	Gas Gas	18	33:00.945	12	25
2	5	Jaume Masià	Honda	18	+0.076	4	20
3	99	José Antonio Rueda	KTM	18	+0.234	7	16
4	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Husqvarna	18	+0.289	13	13
5	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	18	+0.401	8	11
6	54	Riccardo Rossi	Honda	18	+0.524	10	10
7	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	18	+0.680	9	9
8	24	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	18	+0.967	6	8
9	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Gas Gas	18	+1.060	20	7
10	18	Matteo Bertelle	Honda	18	+1.304	5	6
11	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	18	+6.129[e]	2	5
12	43	Xavier Artigas	CFMoto	18	+6.458	22	4
13	72	Taiyo Furusato	Honda	18	+6.485	14	3
14	55	Romano Fenati	Honda	18	+6.964	29[d]	2
15[f]	19	Scott Ogden	Honda	18	+6.679	15	1
16	10	Diogo Moreira	KTM	18	+7.024	17
17	64	Mario Aji	Honda	18	+7.150	21
18	33	Tatchakorn Buasri	Honda	18	+7.170	25
19	38	David Salvador	KTM	18	+10.354	18
20	96	Daniel Holgado	KTM	18	+14.757	11
21	70	Joshua Whatley	Honda	18	+18.755	26
22	92	David Almansa	Husqvarna	18	+18.800	23
23	20	Lorenzo Fellon	KTM	18	+27.664	24
24	63	Syarifuddin Azman	KTM	18	+32.185	28
25	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	18	+32.287	27
Ret	44	David Muñoz	KTM	17	Collision	19
Ret	7	Filippo Farioli	KTM	4	Accident	16
DNS	95	Collin Veijer	Husqvarna		Did not start
DSQ	48	Iván Ortolá	KTM		Technical infringement
DSQ	66	Joel Kelso	CFMoto		Technical infringement
Fastest lap: Daniel Holgado (KTM) – 1:48.902 (lap 2)
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT

• Collin Veijer was declared unfit after an x-ray showed a left foot fracture and subsequently withdrew from the race.
• Iván Ortolá and Joel Kelso originally finished 10th and 18th in the race, respectively, but were disqualified from the results of the whole weekend after having found to have used an oil outside of the Moto3 technical specifications.^[1] Ortolá's pole position statistic was also nullified due to the disqualification; Deniz Öncü inherited the pole position statistic.

MotoE[edit]

Race 1[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	9	Andrea Mantovani	7	12:47.539	3	25
2	40	Mattia Casadei	7	+0.044	2	20
3	4	Héctor Garzó	7	+0.230	7	16
4	11	Matteo Ferrari	7	+0.950	6	13
5	29	Nicholas Spinelli	7	+1.011	8	11
6	3	Randy Krummenacher	7	+2.129	11	10
7	81	Jordi Torres	7	+2.524	1	9
8	77	Miquel Pons	7	+2.962	5	8
9	61	Alessandro Zaccone	7	+3.102	9	7
10	34	Kevin Manfredi	7	+3.379	14	6
11	21	Kevin Zannoni	7	+6.106	4	5
12	51	Eric Granado	7	+9.173	10	4
13	78	Hikari Okubo	7	+11.958	18	3
14	99	Oscar Gutiérrez	7	+12.075[g]	12	2
15	72	Alessio Finello	7	+12.197	13	1
16	6	María Herrera	7	+16.270	16
Ret	8	Mika Pérez	4	Accident	15
EX	53	Tito Rabat	0	Excluded	17
Fastest lap: Jordi Torres – 1:48.377 (lap 2)
OFFICIAL MOTOE RACE NR.1 REPORT

• All bikes manufactured by Ducati.

Race 2[edit]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Mattia Casadei	7	12:47.019	2	25
2	9	Andrea Mantovani	7	+0.072	3	20
3	29	Nicholas Spinelli	7	+0.388	8	16
4	4	Héctor Garzó	7	+0.424	7	13
5	11	Matteo Ferrari	7	+0.498	6	11
6	77	Miquel Pons	7	+1.071	5	10
7	21	Kevin Zannoni	7	+1.208	4	9
8	61	Alessandro Zaccone	7	+1.801	9	8
9	3	Randy Krummenacher	7	+2.596	11	7
10	51	Eric Granado	7	+4.458	10	6
11	99	Oscar Gutiérrez	7	+4.654	12	5
12	34	Kevin Manfredi	7	+6.389	14	4
13	78	Hikari Okubo	7	+11.180	18	3
14	8	Mika Pérez	7	+11.236	15	2
15	72	Alessio Finello	7	+15.523[g]	13	1
16	6	María Herrera	7	+15.670	16
Ret	81	Jordi Torres	5	Accident	1
Ret	53	Tito Rabat	4	Accident	17
Fastest lap: Héctor Garzó – 1:48.551 (lap 3)
OFFICIAL MOTOE RACE NR.2 REPORT

• All bikes manufactured by Ducati.

Championship standings after the race[edit]

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.^{[11][12][13][14]}

MotoGP[edit]