2023 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 20 of 20 races in the 2023 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	26 November 2023
Official name	Gran PremioMotul de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo Cheste,Valencia,Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Maverick Viñales[a] Aprilia Time 1:28.931 Fastest lap Rider Brad Binder KTM Time 1:30.145 on lap 3 Podium First Francesco Bagnaia Ducati Second Johann Zarco Ducati Third Brad Binder KTM
Moto2
Pole position Rider Arón Canet Kalex Time 1:33.314 Fastest lap Rider Fermín Aldeguer Boscoscuro Time 1:33.665 on lap 8 Podium First Fermín Aldeguer Boscoscuro Second Arón Canet Kalex Third Alonso López Boscoscuro
Moto3
Pole position Rider Collin Veijer Husqvarna Time 1:38.311 Fastest lap Rider David Alonso Gas Gas Time 1:38.438 on lap 14 Podium First Ayumu Sasaki Husqvarna Second David Alonso Gas Gas Third Iván Ortolá KTM

The2023 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as theGran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana) was the twentieth and final round of the2023 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at theCircuit Ricardo Tormo inCheste on 26 November 2023.

In the MotoGP class,Francesco Bagnaia successfully defended hisRiders' Championship by winning the Grand Prix and with closest title contenderJorge Martín crashing out.^[2]

In the Moto3 class, Intact GP won their firstTeams' Championship.^[3]

Free Practice sessions on Friday and Saturday do not determine riders to qualify for Q2.

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Free practice times
				FP1[4]	FP2[5]
1	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	1:30.490	1:30.167
2	73	Álex Márquez	Ducati	1:30.857	1:30.186
3	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:30.191	1:30.445
4	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:30.969	1:30.193
5	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	1:30.564	1:30.213
6	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:30.556	1:30.217
7	89	Jorge Martín	Ducati	1:30.450	1:30.272
8	33	Brad Binder	KTM	1:31.252	1:30.274
9	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	1:30.534	1:30.314
10	25	Raúl Fernández	Aprilia	1:31.046	1:30.330
11	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	1:30.378	1:30.403
12	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1:30.811	1:30.482
13	37	Augusto Fernández	KTM	1:30.567	1:30.614
14	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:31.112	1:30.587
15	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	1:31.514	1:31.600
16	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	1:31.297	1:30.701
17	43	Jack Miller	KTM	1:30.901	1:30.702
18	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:31.443	1:30.821
19	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:30.874	1:30.891
20	42	Álex Rins	Honda	1:31.488	1:30.970
21	36	Joan Mir	Honda	1:31.553
22	32	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	1:31.997	1:31.769
OFFICIAL MOTOGP COMBINED FREE PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

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

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor
				Time results[6]
1	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	1:29.142
2	89	Jorge Martín	Ducati	1:29.289
3	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:29.296
4	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	1:29.395
5	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	1:29.396
6	33	Brad Binder	KTM	1:29.402
7	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	1:29.459
8	25	Raúl Fernández	Aprilia	1:29.470
9	43	Jack Miller	KTM	1:29.481
10	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	1:29.571
11	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1:29.573
12	73	Álex Márquez	Ducati	1:29.614
13	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:29.615
14	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:29.775
15	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:29.801
16	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:30.002
17	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	1:30.343
18	37	Augusto Fernández	KTM	1:30.445
19	42	Álex Rins	Honda	1:30.464
20	32	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	1:30.795
21	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1.30.940
	36	Joan Mir	Honda	NC
OFFICIAL MOTOGP PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

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

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Free practice times
				P1[7]	P2[8]	P3[9]
1	54	Fermín Aldeguer	Boscoscuro	1:34.185	1:33.900	1:33.264
2	42	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	1:34.399	1:34.122	1:33.429
3	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	1:33.238	1:32.686	1:33.035
4	13	Celestino Vietti	Kalex	1:34.838	1:33.472	1:32.708
5	21	Alonso López	Boscoscuro	1:34.938	1:34.354	1:33.751
6	37	Pedro Acosta	Kalex	1:34.024	1:33.768	1:34.103
7	18	Manuel González	Kalex	1:35.182	1:34.470	1:33.856
8	40	Arón Canet	Kalex	1:34.200	1:33.951	1:33.889
9	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	1:34.496	1:34.004	1:33.193
10	71	Dennis Foggia	Kalex	1:34.540	1:34.317	1:33.923
11	75	Albert Arenas	Kalex	1:34.637	1:35.054	1:33.956
Source :OFFICIAL MOTO2 COMBINED PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

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

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Practice times
				P1[10]	P2[11]	P3[12]
1	66	Joel Kelso	CFMoto	1:40.161	1:39.080	1:38.569
2	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Husqvarna	1:39.956	1:39.434	1:38.623
3	96	Daniel Holgado	KTM	1:38.919	1:38.706	1:38.669
4	21	Vicente Pérez	KTM	1:40.605	1:39.312	1:38.733
5	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	GasGas	1:39.847	1:39.187	1:38.889
Source :OFFICIAL MOTO3 COMBINED PRACTICE TIMES REPORT

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Qualifying times		Final grid	Row
				Q1[13]	Q2[14]
1	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:28.931	1	1
2	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:29.054	1:29.023	2
3	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:29.144	3
4	43	Jack Miller	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:29.161	4	2
5	33	Brad Binder	KTM	Qualified in Q2	1:29.171	5
6	89	Jorge Martín	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:29.182	6
7	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:29.223	7	3
8	73	Álex Márquez	Ducati	1:29.196	1:29.261	8
9	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	Qualified in Q2	1:29.275	9
10	25	Raúl Fernández	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:29.438	10	4
11	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	Qualified in Q2	1:29.510	11
12	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia	Qualified in Q2	1:29.797	12
13	37	Augusto Fernández	KTM	1:29.233	N/A	13	5
14	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1:29.389	N/A	14	6
15	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:29.613	N/A	15	5
16	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:29.864	N/A	16
17	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	1:29.901	N/A	17	6
18	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1:29.953	N/A	18
19	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:30.045	N/A	19	7
20	42	Álex Rins	Honda	1:30.257	N/A	20
21	32	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	1:31.044	N/A	21
OFFICIAL MOTOGP QUALIFYING RESULTS

Pos.	No.	Biker	Constructor	Qualifying times		Final grid	Row
				Q1[15]	Q2[16]
1	40	Arón Canet	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:33.314	1	1
2	54	Fermín Aldeguer	Boscoscuro	Qualified in Q2	1:33.488	2
3	42	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:33.508	3
4	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:33.573	4	2
5	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:33.648	5
6	37	Pedro Acosta	Kalex	Qualified in Q2	1:33.762	6
7	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	1:33.944	1:33.773	7	3
OFFICIAL MOTOGP QUALIFYING RESULTS

Collin Veijer set the pole position 1:38.311 and was the fastest rider at this session ahead ofAyumu Sasaki andDeniz Öncü.^[17][18]

The MotoGP Sprint was held on 25 November.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	89	Jorge Martín	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	13	19:38.827	6	12
2	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	13	+0.190	5	9
3	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	13	+2.122	9	7
4	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	13	+3.106	1	6
5	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	13	+4.253	2	5
6	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	13	+4.400	11	4
7	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	13	+4.502	7	3
8	73	Álex Márquez	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	13	+5.578	8	2
9	5	Johann Zarco	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	13	+5.910	3	1
10	37	Augusto Fernández	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	13	+6.095	13
11	25	Raúl Fernández	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	13	+7.674	10
12	43	Jack Miller	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	13	+8.098	4
13	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	13	+9.513	12
14	44	Pol Espargaró	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	13	+12.453	18
15	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	13	+12.599	14
16	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	13	+13.787	16
17	10	Luca Marini	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	13	+13.887[b]	17
18	21	Franco Morbidelli	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	13	+14.943[b]	19
19	42	Álex Rins	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	13	+20.378	20
20	32	Lorenzo Savadori	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	13	+25.017	21
Ret	20	Fabio Quartararo	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	4	Accident	15
DNS	36	Joan Mir	Repsol Honda Team	Honda		Did not start
Fastest sprint lap:Marc Márquez (Honda) – 1:29.809 (lap 4)
OFFICIAL MOTOGP SPRINT REPORT

• Joan Mir was declared unfit due to neck pain from a crash in Free Practice 1 and withdrew from the rest of the weekend.^[19]

Johann Zarco set the best time 1:29.984 and was the fastest rider at this session ahead ofBrad Binder andJorge Martín.^[20]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	27	40:58.535	1	25
2	5	Johann Zarco	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	27	+0.360	2	20
3	33	Brad Binder	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	27	+2.347	5	16
4	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	27	+3.176[c]	11	13
5	25	Raúl Fernández	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	27	+4.636	10	11
6	73	Álex Márquez	Gresini Racing MotoGP	Ducati	27	+4.708	8	10
7	21	Franco Morbidelli	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	27	+4.736	19	9
8	41	Aleix Espargaró	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	27	+8.014	12	8
9	10	Luca Marini	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	27	+9.486	17	7
10	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia Racing	Aprilia	27	+10.556	4[a]	6
11	20	Fabio Quartararo	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	27	+12.001	15	5
12	30	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda Idemitsu	Honda	27	+21.695	16	4
13	32	Lorenzo Savadori	CryptoData RNF MotoGP Team	Aprilia	27	+43.297	21	3
14	44	Pol Espargaró	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	25	+2 laps	18	2
Ret	42	Álex Rins	LCR Honda Castrol	Honda	19	Accident	20
Ret	43	Jack Miller	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	18	Accident	3
Ret	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	9	Accident	14
Ret	37	Augusto Fernández	GasGas Factory Racing Tech3	KTM	9	Accident	13
Ret	93	Marc Márquez	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	5	Collision	9
Ret	89	Jorge Martín	Prima Pramac Racing	Ducati	5	Collision	6
Ret	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	Ducati	0	Accident	7
DNS	36	Joan Mir	Repsol Honda Team	Honda		Did not start
Fastest lap:Brad Binder (KTM) – 1:30.145 (lap 3)
OFFICIAL MOTOGP RACE REPORT

Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	54	Fermín Aldeguer	Boscoscuro	22	34:33.384	2	25
2	40	Arón Canet	Kalex	22	+3.986	1	20
3	21	Alonso López	Boscoscuro	22	+6.455	14	16
4	24	Marcos Ramírez	Kalex	22	+6.476	3	13
5	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	22	+7.060	10	11
6	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	22	+7.864	5	10
7	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	22	+8.924	4	9
8	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	22	+11.842	7	8
9	71	Dennis Foggia	Kalex	22	+12.096	12	7
10	75	Albert Arenas	Kalex	22	+12.549	9	6
11	79	Ai Ogura	Kalex	22	+13.527	17	5
12	37	Pedro Acosta	Kalex	22	+14.044	6	4
13	18	Manuel González	Kalex	22	+15.570	18	3
14	7	Barry Baltus	Kalex	22	+15.861	16	2
15	52	Jeremy Alcoba	Kalex	22	+18.539	23	1
16	14	Tony Arbolino	Kalex	22	+18.608	19
17	12	Filip Salač	Kalex	22	+25.356	8
18	84	Zonta van den Goorbergh	Kalex	22	+26.716	20
19	44	Matteo Ferrari	Kalex	22	+31.074	24
20	15	Darryn Binder	Kalex	22	+33.307	25
21	33	Rory Skinner	Kalex	22	+35.853	26
22	23	Taiga Hada	Kalex	22	+36.352	29
23	17	Álex Escrig	Forward	22	+36.955	22
24	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Kalex	22	+41.137	27
25	9	Mattia Casadei	Kalex	22	+42.309	30
26	4	Sean Dylan Kelly	Forward	22	+55.828	32
Ret	45	Héctor Garzó	NTS	16	Accident	28
Ret	13	Celestino Vietti	Kalex	6	Accident damage	11
Ret	3	Lukas Tulovic	Kalex	4	Accident	21
Ret	11	Sergio García	Kalex	0	Accident	13
Ret	28	Izan Guevara	Kalex	0	Accident	15
Ret	5	Kohta Nozane	Kalex	0	Accident	31
Fastest lap:Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) – 1:33.665 (lap 8)
OFFICIAL MOTO2 RACE REPORT

Pos.	No.	Rider	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Husqvarna	20	33:03.409	2	25
2	80	David Alonso	Gas Gas	20	+0.082	5	20
3	48	Iván Ortolá	KTM	20	+0.128	6	16
4	95	Collin Veijer	Husqvarna	20	+0.266	1	13
5	53	Deniz Öncü	KTM	20	+0.384	3	11
6	99	José Antonio Rueda	KTM	20	+3.589	7	10
7	66	Joel Kelso	CFMoto	20	+4.623	4	9
8	96	Daniel Holgado	KTM	20	+6.105	18	8
9	44	David Muñoz	KTM	20	+6.305	9	7
10	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	Gas Gas	20	+6.907	10	6
11	72	Taiyo Furusato	Honda	20	+9.166	16	5
12	7	Filippo Farioli	KTM	20	+9.663	14	4
13	5	Jaume Masià	Honda	20	+10.446	8	3
14	31	Adrián Fernández	Honda	20	+10.556	12	2
15	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	20	+11.462	11	1
16	55	Romano Fenati	Honda	20	+13.966	20
17	54	Riccardo Rossi	Honda	20	+14.000	15
18	18	Matteo Bertelle	Honda	20	+25.472	19
19	43	Xavier Artigas	CFMoto	20	+28.354	22
20	27	Kaito Toba	Honda	20	+28.420	21
21	38	David Salvador	KTM	20	+33.908	23
22	69	Marcos Ruda	Husqvarna	20	+36.632	25
23	64	Mario Aji	Honda	20	+36.785	26
Ret	20	Lorenzo Fellon	KTM	2	Accident	24
Ret	21	Vicente Pérez	KTM	0	Accident	13
Ret	10	Diogo Moreira	KTM	0	Accident	17
DNS	63	Syarifuddin Azman	KTM		Did not start
DNS	19	Scott Ogden	Honda		Did not start
WD	92	David Almansa	Husqvarna		Withdrew
Fastest lap:David Alonso (Gas Gas) – 1:38.438 (lap 14)
OFFICIAL MOTO3 RACE REPORT

• Syarifuddin Azman suffered a fractured right wrist from a crash in Practice 2 and withdrew from the weekend.^[21]
• Scott Ogden suffered a dislocated shoulder from a crash in Practice 3 and withdrew from the weekend.^[22]
• David Almansa was entered as a wildcard, but suffered an injury in Practice 1 and was replaced for the rest of the weekend byMarcos Ruda.^[22]

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.^[23][24][25]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Francesco Bagnaia 467 2 Jorge Martín 428 3 Marco Bezzecchi 329 4 Brad Binder 293 5 Johann Zarco 225

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Ducati 700 2 KTM 373 3 Aprilia 326 4 Yamaha 196 5 Honda 185

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Prima Pramac Racing 653 2 Ducati Lenovo Team 561 3 Mooney VR46 Racing Team 530 4 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 456 5 Aprilia Racing 410

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Pedro Acosta 332.5 2 Tony Arbolino 249.5 1 3 Fermín Aldeguer 212 1 4 Jake Dixon 204 5 Arón Canet 195

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Kalex 462.5 2 Boscoscuro 286 3 Forward 4

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Red Bull KTM Ajo 417.5 1 2 CAG Speed Up 362 1 3 Elf Marc VDS Racing Team 353.5 4 Idemitsu Honda Team Asia 311 5 Pons Wegow Los40 279

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Jaume Masià 274 2 Ayumu Sasaki 268 3 David Alonso 245 1 4 Deniz Öncü 223 1 5 Daniel Holgado 220

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 KTM 394 2 Honda 327 3 Husqvarna 307 4 Gas Gas 270 5 CFMoto 113

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP 417 2 Leopard Racing 349 3 Red Bull KTM Ajo 344 4 Valresa GasGas Aspar Team 329 5 Angeluss MTA Team 289

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