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This is the 31st time that Misano has hosted a Grand Prix. The first GP to take place at Misano was in 1980, and the 500cc race was over 40 laps of the 3.448 km anticlockwise circuit. It was won by Kenny Roberts. Misano hosted 10 GPs between 1980 and 1993 before a 13-year hiatus following Wayne Rainey’s crash in 1993. When Grand Prix racing returned to Misano in 2007, it was on a much revised 4.18 km clockwise circuit running in the opposite direction (clockwise).
The MotoGP race in 2019 was the 350th Grand Prix race in Italy since the first Nations Grand Prix held in 1949 at Monza and the MotoGP race at the 2024 San Marino GP was the 400th MotoGP race to take place since the category, by that name, was introduced in 2002.
There have been four different GPs held at Misano: the Nations GP (1980, ‘82, ‘84, 1989-90), the San Marino GP (1985-87, from 2007 onwards), the Italian GP (‘91, ‘93) and the Emilia-Romagna GP (2020 and 2021).
Three Italian riders finished in the top five at Misano in 2017, all on Ducatis, which was the first time three Italian riders on Italian bikes finished in the top five in the premier class since Imola 1972 when Giacomo Agostini won from MV Agusta teammate Alberto Pagani, with Ducati rider Bruno Spaggiari third.
The rider with most wins at Misano since 2007 is Marc Marquez with eight (1x125cc, 2xMoto2, 5xMotoGP).
MotoGP WINNERS AT MISANO SINCE 2007:
Marc Marquez 5 (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021/2, 2024/1) – Valentino Rossi 3 (2008, 2009, 2014) – Jorge Lorenzo 3 (2011, 2012, 2013) – Dani Pedrosa 2 (2010, 2016) – Francesco Bagnaia 2 (2021/1, 2022) – Franco Morbidelli 1 (2020/1) – Maverick Viñales 1 (2020/2) – Andrea Dovizioso 1 (2018) – Casey Stoner 1 (2007) – Jorge Martin 1 (2023).
RACES AT MISANO SINCE 2007 (60): 20 MotoGP, 17 Moto2, 3 250cc, 15 Moto3, 5 125cc
FACTORIES AT MISANO SINCE 2007:
BEST RESULTS
Most wins: Yamaha 8 – Honda 6 – Ducati 6
Yamaha: Yamaha’s last MotoGP win at the track was Maverick Viñales in 2020/2. Yamaha is the most successful manufacturer with eight wins: three each for Valentino Rossi (2008, 2009, 2014) and Jorge Lorenzo (2011, 2012, 2013), and one each for Franco Morbidelli (2020/1) and Maverick Viñales (2020/2), the latter also qualifying on pole in 2019, 2020/1 and 2020/2.
Honda: Honda’s last MotoGP win at Misano was Marc Marquez in 2021/2. The win for Marc Marquez in 2015 was the first for Honda at Misano since 2010 and followed four successive wins for Yamaha at this circuit.
Ducati: Ducati’s last MotoGP win at Misano was Marc Marquez in 2024/1. Ducati riders have taken eight pole positions at the track: two with Casey Stoner (2007, 2008) and Francesco Bagnaia (2021/1, 2021/2 and 2024/1), and one each for Jorge Lorenzo (2018), Jack Miller (2022) and Jorge Martin (2023).
Aprilia: Aprilia’s best MotoGP result here is Maverick Viñales’ P3 in 2022, their only podium so far.
KTM: KTM’s best is Pol Espargaro’s P3 in 2020/2. He qualified P2 in 2019 for KTM’s best MotoGP qualifying at the time.
9 riders who will be on the grid have podiums here in the class: M. Marquez (7), Bagnaia (5), Enea Bastianini (4), Viñales (3), Joan Mir (2), Fabio Quartararo (2), Morbidelli (1), Marco Bezzecchi (1), Martin (1).
5 have taken pole: Viñales (4), Bagnaia (3), M. Marquez (1), Miller (1) and Martin (1).
WHAT HAPPENS IF…
100 – When Bagnaia starts Sunday’s Emilia-Romagna GP race, the three-time World Champion will be making his 100th MotoGP appearance.
100 – If a Ducati rider wins Sunday’s race, the Bologna factory will become the third manufacturer (after Honda and Yamaha) to win 100 races or more in the MotoGP era.
74 – If at least one Ducati qualifies in the top three, it will be the 74th consecutive race that a Ducati rider starts on the front row, a run that stretches back to Valencia 2020.
60 – Ducati are on a streak of 59 consecutive GP races with at least one rider on the podium. If they take a podium this weekend, they will extend their own record to 60.
20 – Pedro Acosta will be 20 years and 120 days old on Sunday. If he wins, he will become the second-youngest premier class winner after from Marc Marquez (20 years 63 days old in Austin in 2013).
11 – If a Ducati rider wins, this will be Ducati’s 11th win in 11 successive MotoGP races, equal the personal record for the Bologna factory set from the 2023 San Marino GP to the 2024 Portuguese GP.
8 – If Bagnaia wins, it’ll be his eighth win of 2024, making it his best premier class season in terms of wins. The last rider who scored eight (or more) wins in a MotoGP season is Marc Marquez with 12 in 2019. Only Marc Marquez, Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo have won eight or more in a single MotoGP season.
7 – If a rider other than Martin, Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, Bastianini, Viñales or Aleix Espargaro wins the Tissot Sprint at Misano, 2024 will already have had more different Sprint winners than across the whole of 2023.
6 – There are six full-time riders on the grid who could take their maiden MotoGP win this weekend: Alex Marquez, Raul Fernandez, Luca Marini, Takaaki Nakagami, Augusto Fernandez and rookie Pedro Acosta.
3 – At the Emilia-Romagna GP, Marc Marquez will be aiming to take three MotoGP wins in a row for the first time since 2019, when he took five successive wins from San Marino to Australia.
1 – KTM and Aprilia riders could give their factory a maiden premier class win at Misano.
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Constructors’ Crown on the line in Misano
Ducati head in with a 229-point advantage over KTM and 239 over Aprilia in the MotoGP Constructors’ World Championship. Ducati could clinch the title for the sixth time in the premier class if they end the Grand Prix with an advantage of 222 or more points. They can’t take the title after the Sprint, so they have the chance to hit two milestones at once on Sunday and wrap up the Constructors’ with their 100th MotoGP win. Bagnaia could complete a set if he is the victor for the factory too, winning on his 100th MotoGP start.
ON THIS DAY…
September 19th
At the 2004 Japanese GP, Shinya Nakano finished P3 behind Makoto Tamada and MotoGP Legend Valentino Rossi, giving Kawasaki their first premier class podium since MotoGP Legend Kork Ballington was third in Finland back in 1981.
At the 1999 Valencia GP, Régis Laconi won the 500cc race, becoming the third different French rider to win a premier class race and the last one until Fabio Quartararo at the 2020 Spanish GP.
September 20th
At the 2003 Rio GP, MotoGP Legend Jorge Lorenzo won the 125cc race from MotoGP Legend Casey Stoner and Alex De Angelis, taking the first of his 68 Grand Prix wins.
September 21st
At the 2002 Rio GP, MotoGP Legend Valentino Rossi won the MotoGP race from MotoGP Legends Max Biaggi and Kenny Roberts Jr with four races remaining to take his second premier class title.
At the same GP, Sebastian Porto won in 250cc to become the first Argentinian rider to win a GP race since Benedicto Caldarella won in 500cc at the 1962 Argentinian GP.
September 22nd
At the 1974 Spanish GP held at Montjuic, Victor Palomo, former world champion water skier, won the 350cc race from Dieter Braun and Olivier Chevallier, becoming the first and only Spanish rider to win the class.
PREVIOUSLY AT MISANO:
#1 Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) has won three times in Misano: once in Moto2 in 2018 from pole, and twice in MotoGP in 2021/1 (from pole) and 2022, from fifth after a 3-place grid penalty. He has had four more podiums here: P3s in Moto2 in 2017 and in MotoGP in 2023, following his crash in Catalunya, and P2 in MotoGP in 2020/1 (his maiden MotoGP podium) and in 2024/1 (from pole). He has two Sprint podiums: P3 in 2023 and P2 in 2024/1. In 2020/2, he took the lead from Viñales with 22 laps to go but crashed out at Turn 6 with seven laps remaining.
#5 Johann Zarco (Castrol Honda LCR) has one win in Misano when he was in Moto2 in 2015 (from pole) and finished on the podium a further two times: P2 in 2011 in 125cc and P3 in 2014 in Moto2. In his first MotoGP race here, he finished P15 after running out of fuel on the last lap and pushing his bike to the line. He finished fifth at the 2021 Emilia-Romagna GP for his best MotoGP result so far at the track. In 2024/1, he finished P13 in the Sprint and P12 in the Sunday’s race, as the top Honda rider in both.
#10 Luca Marini (Repsol Honda Team) has won at the track once: in Moto2 at the 2020 San Marino GP after starting from pole. He also qualified on pole at the 2020 Emilia-Romagna GP. He finished P4 in 2022, for his best MotoGP result at the track, equalling his best result in the class at that time. He qualified third at the 2021 Emilia-Romagna GP (his best qualifying result in the class at that time). He made his GP debut in Moto3 at Misano in 2013 but crashed out in the opening lap (that was his only race in the class). He missed the Sunday race in 2024/1 due to illness.
#12 Maverick Viñales (Aprilia Racing) has won here once in MotoGP, at the 2020 Emilia-Romagna GP from pole. His other three podiums here were in 2013 (P2 in Moto3), in 2019 (P3 in MotoGP) and in 2022 (P3 in MotoGP).
#20 Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team) has finished on the podium twice at Misano, both times in MotoGP; P2 in 2019 following a battle with Marc Marquez and P2 in 2021/1. At the 2021 Emilia- Romagna GP, he qualified 15th (after his lap time was cancelled) for his worst qualifying result at that time in MotoGP but finished P4 and clinched the world title. Last time out in Misano, he qualified 10th (his best qualifying result since France), finished the GP race in P7, equalling Yamaha’s best result so far this season, scored by himself in Portugal.
#21 Franco Morbidelli (Prima Pramac Racing) has one podium here, taking his maiden MotoGP win at the 2020 San Marino GP. In 2024/1, he finished P3 in the Sprint, scoring his maiden Sprint podium, but crashed out in the Sunday’s race.
#23 Enea Bastianini (Ducati Lenovo Team) has eight podiums at Misano (he is the current rider with the second most podiums here behind M. Marquez (10)): a win in Moto3 in 2015 from pole – his maiden win, P2 in Moto3 in 2016, P3 in Moto2 in 2020/1, a win in Moto2 in 2020/2 and four podiums in MotoGP: P3 in 2021/1 (his maiden MotoGP podium), in 2021/2 and in 2024/1, and P2 in 2022 (following a great battle with Bagnaia). He missed the San Marino GP in 2023 due to injury.
#25 Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Racing) has won at Misano once, in Moto2 at the 2021 San Marino GP (from pole). He also qualified on pole in Moto3 at the 2020 Emilia-Romagna GP. He finished P8 here in 2023, which was his best MotoGP result at that time.
#30 Takaaki Nakagami (Idemistu Honda LCR) has taken three podiums here, all in Moto2: P2 in 2013 and P3s in both 2015 and 2016. He finished P6 at the 2020 Emilia-Romagna GP, his best MotoGP result here.
#31 Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) has two podiums here: P3 in 2021/2 in Moto3 and a win in Moto2 in 2023, both on his way to clinching the title. In 2024/1 (his first visit to the track in MotoGP), he qualified fifth as the top KTM/GASGAS rider, finished P6 in the Sprint (again as the top KTM/GASGAS rider), but crashed on Sunday, rejoined and eventually finished P17.
#33 Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) has one podium here, winning in Moto3 in 2016 (from pole) on his way to clinching the title. His best MotoGP result here is P4 scored in 2024/1.
#36 Joan Mir (Repsol Honda Team) has finished on the podium at Misano four times, twice in Moto3 (P3 in
2016 and P2 in 2017) and twice in MotoGP (P3 in 2020/1 and P2 in 2020/2). He withdrew from the 2024 San
Marino GP due to illness.
#37 Augusto Fernandez (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) finished on the podium three times at Misano, all in Moto2: a win in 2019, P2 in 2021/2 and P3 in 2022. He finished P16 in his first MotoGP race here in 2023 and crashed out in 2024/1.
#41 Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing)’s best Grand Prix result at Misano is P6, scored in MotoGP in 2022. In 2024/1, he retired from the Sunday’s race.
#42 Alex Rins (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team) has three podiums here: two wins in Moto3 in 2013 and 2014, and a second place in 2016 in Moto2. His best MotoGP result here is P4 in 2018 when riding a Suzuki.
#43 Jack Miller (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) has finished on the podium here once, in Moto3 in 2014 from pole. His best MotoGP result here is P5 at the 2021 San Marino GP. He took his second and most recent pole here in 2022. At the 2020 Emilia-Romagna GP, he retired after a tear-off got caught in his air filter on Lap 2. In 2024/1, he finished both the Sprint and the GP race in P8.
#49 Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) has finished on the podium three times here: P3 in Moto3 in both 2017 and 2018, and P2 in 2019 in Moto2 after taking his only pole position in the class. He finished P9 here in 2024/1 for his best MotoGP result at the track.
#72 Marco Bezzecchi (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) has finished on the podium here three times: P2 in both Moto2 races held at Misano in 2020, and P2 in MotoGP in 2023. He also finished P2 in the Sprint in 2023. Last time out in Misano, he qualified P3 for his best qualifying result since earlier this year in Jerez and finished the race in P5, which is also his best result since Jerez (when he finished P3).
#73 Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP) has had three podiums at Misano: P3 in 2013 and P2 in 2014 in Moto3, and P3 in 2019 in Moto2. He finished P6 in MotoGP at the 2024 San Marino GP for his best result in the class at the track so far.
#88 Miguel Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing) has had two podiums at Misano: P2 in Moto3 in 2015 and P2 in Moto2 in 2018. He finished P5 at the 2020 Emilia-Romagna GP, for his best MotoGP result here. He was the best Aprilia rider across the line in 2024/1, finishing P11.
#89 Jorge Martin (Prima Pramac Racing) has two podiums here: P2 in Moto3 in 2018 (from pole) and winning the MotoGP race here in 2023 from pole. He took his second double that weekend, winning both the GP race and the Sprint. Last time out in Misano, he took his fifth Sprint win of 2024, but scored one point on Sunday, losing 19 points to Bagnaia in his flag-to-flag gamble.
#93 Marc Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP) has finished on the podium 10 times here, including eight wins: in 125cc in 2010, in Moto2 in both 2011 and 2012, and in MotoGP in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021/2 and 2024/1. He’s finished off the podium only four times in his 11 visits to the track in MotoGP: P15 in 2014 (after crashing and rejoining the race), P4 in 2016 and in 2021/1 and P7 in 2023.