This is the 16th Grand Prix at MotorLand Aragon. The track first hosted MotoGP in 2010, becoming the sixth Spanish circuit to do so after Jerez, Catalunya, Jarama, Montjuïc and Valencia. It’s one of six anticlockwise tracks on the calendar, along with Austin, Sachsenring, Phillip Island, Valencia and the newly introduced Balaton Park in Hungary.
MOTOGP™ WINNERS AT MOTORLAND ON THE GRID
Marc Marquez (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024) – Alex Rins (2020/1) – Franco Morbidelli (2020/2) – Francesco Bagnaia (2021) – Enea Bastianini (2022)
SPRINT WINNERS AT MOTORLAND
Marc Marquez 1 (2024)
FACTORIES AT MOTORLAND: BEST RESULTS
GP wins Honda 7 –Ducati 4 – Yamaha 3 – Suzuki 1
Sprint wins Ducati 1
Honda ’s most recent MotoGP™ win here is Marc Marquez in 2019 from pole. Honda is the most successful manufacturer here with seven wins: Stoner in 2011, Dani Pedrosa in 2012 and Marc Marquez in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
Ducati have four MotoGP™ wins here. Stoner won the first race at the track in 2010 from pole, and Bagnaia won in 2021 (from pole) following a great battle with Marc Marquez. Bastianini took the win here in 2022, after duelling Bagnaia until the end, and Marc Marquez did the double in 2024 (Sprint and GP wins).
Yamaha have three wins in MotoGP™ here: Jorge Lorenzo in 2014 and 2015, and Morbidelli in 2020/2 (Teruel).
Aprilia ’s best result at MotorLand is P3, scored with Aleix Espargaro in 2022.
KTM ’s best result at MotorLand is also P3 with Pedro Acosta in 2024.
EXTRA FACTS AND STATS
10 current riders have MotoGP podiums here: Marc Marquez (7), Joan Mir (3), Rins (2), Bagnaia (2), Jack Miller (1), Alex Marquez (1), Acosta (1), Jorge Martin (1), Bastianini (1) and Morbidelli (1). 4 have taken pole: M. Marquez (6), Bagnaia (2), Viñales (1), Quartararo (1).
One rider scored in all seven MotoGP™ races so far this season: Luca Marini. As Marini will miss the Aragon GP due to injury, this sequence is over. Two have scored points in all seven Tissot Sprints: Marc Marquez and Alex Marquez.
Since 2010, three riders have won from pole at Aragon: Stoner (2010, 2011), Marc Marquez (2013, 2016, 2019, 2024) and Bagnaia (2021). Marquez has been on pole six out of 10 times he’s raced in MotoGP at Aragon.
WHAT HAPPENS IF…
88: If a Ducati qualifies in the top three, it will be the 88th consecutive GP that a Ducati rider starts on the front row, a run that stretches back to Valencia 2020.
74: Ducati are on a streak of 73 podiums in a row. Another will extend their own record to 74. The only manufacturer with more than 74 podiums in a row is Honda with 83 from the FIM GP 1993 to the Imola GP 1999.
20: Rookie Fermin Aldeguer will be 20 years and 64 days old on Sunday and would be one day older than the youngest MotoGP winner Marc Marquez (20 years and 63 days old in Austin, 2013), if he wins on Sunday.
6: There are six riders on the grid who could take their maiden MotoGP win this weekend: Raul Fernandez, wildcard Augusto Fernandez, Pedro Acosta and rookies Ai Ogura, Somkiat Chantra and Fermin Aldeguer.
4: If Fabio Quartararo qualifies on pole position, it will be the first time he qualified on pole in four successive races since 2021 (five in a row from Portugal to Catalunya).
2: In Aragon, following Marco Bezzecchi’s win in Silverstone, Aprilia riders will be aiming to give the Noale factory their first wins in back-to-back MotoGP races.
1: KTM and Aprilia riders could give their factory a maiden premier class win at MotorLand.
