Everything you need to know about the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, including track stats and past winners

Spain has a great history in the premier class of the World Championship. However, the country is home to famous champions such as Jorge Lorenzo and others. Mark Marquezof MotoGP calendar Every season has not always had a Spanish Grand Prix (as it is known).

In 1951, he visited the most circuits in Europe, with the first Spanish Grand Prix held at the Montjuic street circuit in Barcelona. The Cerco del Jarama, north of Madrid, hosted the Spanish GP continuously until the 1988 season.

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Jerez was renamed the 2018 Cirque de Jerez – Angel Nieto. In 2018, he won six 50cc and seven 125cc FIM titles in his career in memory of Spanish motorcycle legend Angel Nieto. The Neo has won a total of 90 World Championship Grands Prix and taken 139 podiums.

MotoGP has been contested at Jerez since the 1987 500cc World Championship season, and the track has become a fan favorite for its design – plus the warm weather it typically welcomes. Up to 250,000 fans can attend the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez.

Thanks to the favorable weather conditions, Jerez is one of the favorite circuits for MotoGP teams to test, and its fast and flowing layout is a mix of tight corners and straights. Jerez is a technical circuit that rewards a gentle but aggressive riding style to maximize braking.

History of the MotoGP Grand Prix of Spain

The 500cc World Championship began its third edition in the 1951 season, hosting the Spanish Grand Prix. In the year The 1951 race led to one of the slowest average speeds ever, proving to be a historic race in Spain that more than marked the series’ progress.

Umberto Masetti won his first Spanish GP on a Gilera bike, finishing the race in 2:10:56.2 at an average speed of 93.9 km/h (58.3 mph). After two seasons, 1954 Spanish GP Fergus Anderson became the oldest premier class race winner at the age of 44.

Chas Mortimer scored at the 1972 Spanish GP. Yamaha The Japanese brand has won the premier class competition for the first time. The Briton and Yamaha’s historic victory came at Montjuic in the mountains of Barcelona, ​​where the likes of Massetti and Andersson’s fantastic results saw them.

Montjuic was the sole home of the Spanish GP from 1951-55 and hosted the 500cc race when the championship returned to Spain in 1968. However, Montjuic lost its distinction as Jarama switched to the track until 1976.

But in the year Cerico de Jerez hosted its first Spanish Grand Prix in 1987 and Jarama would only run one more race in 1988 before moving the premier class to Jerez permanently.

Wayne Gardner won his first Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez in 2011.

Wayne Gardner He won the inaugural Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez in 1987, came back in two different places and won the 1986 Spanish GP at Jarama. In the year His result at Jerez in 1987 was also Gardner’s first of seven victories for the Australian rider.

Giacomo Agostini In doing so, the Italian became the first rider to win back-to-back Spanish Grands Prix when he won at Montjuic in 1968.

Kenny Roberts Not when he won the Spanish GP in Jarama in 1979 and 1980. The 500cc class returned to Jarama after a one-year hiatus, with Roberts winning the Spanish GP in 1982, making it three wins for the American.

American riders dominated the Spanish GP from 1978-85, with Pat Heenen, Freddie Spencer and Eddie Lawson taking victories. A period of American and Australian dominance followed from 1986-96 thanks to Gardner, Kevin Magee, Mick Doohan and Kevin Schwantz.

Barcelona-born Alberto Puig became the only premier class winner of the 125-start Grand Prix race when a home driver won the Spanish GP at Jerez in 1995. However, it only took until 1997 when Alex Creville won three Spanish Grands Prix in a row.

An Italian closes the 500cc era and even starts the MotoGP era in 2001 and 2002. Valentino Rossi He won back-to-back Spanish Grands Prix. He won the 2004 meeting and won Rossi’s run in the Italian.

Puig, Creville and Guibernau, however, showed the start of regular Spanish success at their home Grand Prix. Dani Pedrosa won three times, Lorenzo scored three wins at Jerez and Marquez made the track his playground before a shock accident in 2020 put his career in jeopardy.

In the year Crash at Jerez at 2020 Spanish Grand Prix forces Marc Marquez to retire

MotoGP kicks off its delayed 2020 season in Jerez after rescheduling the calendar due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Marquez qualified for the 2020 Spanish GP in P3 and continued to hold third place until the end. But a huge surge at Turn 3 sent him crashing into the gravel.

Marquez was pushing his Honda In the year At the final four rounds of the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix, Maverick Viñales went to the limit to claim second place. But riding the inside bolt for T3, Cervera’s indigenous RC213V bike seized power and shot Marquez into the air at high speed.

On landing, Marquez’s bike hit the Spaniard from behind, sending the Honda ace crashing into the Jerez gravel trap. His crash resulted in Marquez breaking his right humerus, bending the bone more than 30 degrees, and requiring four surgeries in two years.

Even after the MotoGP icon completed his medically-mandated rehabilitation, Marquez was uncomfortable with the arm he broke at the 2020 Spanish GP and considered retiring. Even Marquez said again, “I was afraid of not having a normal arm.”

The winners of the MotoGP Grand Prix of Spain

Below, MotoGP News lists every premier class rider to win the Spanish Grand Prix.