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2024 MotoGP World Championship
Round Three – Red Bull Grand Prix of The Americas
Circuit Of The Americas – MotoGP Statistics

MotoGP returns to the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) for the 11th time. The circuit hosted the Americas GP annually for seven consecutive years, from 2013 to 2019. After a hiatus in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, MotoGP returned to the track in 2021.

In total, there have been 35 previous Grand Prix events hosted in the USA: Laguna Seca (15), COTA (10), Indianapolis (8) and Daytona (2). A total of 84 Grand Prix races for solo motorcycles have been held in the USA since 1949: 500cc/MotoGP – 35, 250cc/Moto2 – 25, 125cc/Moto3 – 22, 50cc – 2.

Alex Rins won the COTA Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas in 2023

Riders with more than one win at COTA

Marc Marquez 7 x MotoGP
Alex Rins 4 (2 x MotoGP, 1 x Moto2, 1 x Moto3)
Romano Fenati 2 x Moto3

In the nine MotoGP Grands Prix he has competed in at Austin, Marc Marquez has taken pole for seven of them. He won six of them from 2013 to 2018 but crashed out in 2019 while leading the race, and won again in 2021.

Marc Marquez has also taken victory on 11 of the 13 occasions that he has raced in MotoGP in America: seven times at Austin, three times at Indianapolis, and once at Laguna Seca in 2013.

The only riders on the current MotoGP grid who have won in the premier class at any of the American circuits are Marc Marquez, Alex Rins and Enea Bastianini. Of the 30 podium finishers in the nine previous MotoGP races held at Austin, all have been riders from either Spain or Italy, except Jack Miller, P3 in both 2019 and 2022, and Fabio Quartararo, P2 in 2021 and P3 in 2023.

Eight riders on the grid have MotoGP podiums at COTA: M. Marquez (7), Rins (3), Quartararo (2), Jack Miller (2), Bastianini (1), Francesco Bagnaia (1), Viñales (1) and Luca Marini (1).

Three current riders have taken pole at COTA: M. Marquez (7, although he started P4 in 2018 due to a penalty), Bagnaia (2) and Jorge Martin (1).

MotoGP COTA Marquez — Marc Marquez celebrting his first MotoGP victory – COTA 2013

Manufacturer Stats at COTA

Honda 8 wins
Ducati 1 win
Suzuki 1 win

Honda: Honda have eight wins in MotoGP at COTA since 2013, 7 with Marc Marquez (2013 to 2018 and 2021) and one with Alex Rins (2023). M. Marquez has qualified on pole here seven times. Honda riders have won 17 of the last 19 MotoGP races held in the USA.

Prior to Rins (2019, Suzuki) and Bastianini (2022, Ducati), the last non-Honda winner in America was Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) at Laguna Seca in 2010. Honda have won 20 of the 27 premier class Grand Prix races that have taken place in the USA in the MotoGP era since 2002.

Ducati: Victory for Enea Bastianini in the 2022 Americas GP, from fifth on the grid. He also set the fastest lap. This was only the second win for Ducati on the US soil along with Casey Stoner at Laguna Seca back in 2007.

Yamaha: Yamaha’s best MotoGP result at Austin is second with four different riders: Fabio Quartararo (2021), Valentino Rossi (2017, 2019), Maverick Viñales (2018) and Jorge Lorenzo (2016).

Aprilia: Aprilia’s best MotoGP result at Austin is P4 with Maverick Viñales (2023).

KTM: Pol Espargaro finished P8 at COTA in 2019, which is the best result at the track for a KTM rider.

By Numbers…

903 – If Marc Marquez wins the Grand Prix race, it will be 903 days since his last GP win at the 2021 EmiliaRomagna GP. As a comparison, there were 581 days between Valencia 2019, his last win prior to his arm injury sustained in Jerez in 2020, and his following win at the 2021 German GP.

250 – Marc Marquez celebrates his 250th GP this weekend.

150 – Fabio Di Giannantonio will be starting his 150th GP.

100 – COTA will be the 100th GP contested by Raul Fernandez.

63 – If at least one Ducati qualifies in the top three, it will be the 63rd successive race that a Ducati rider starts on the front row, stretching back to Valencia 2020.

49 – Ducati is on a streak of 48 consecutive GP races with at least one rider on the podium. If they take a podium this weekend, they will extend their record to 49.

19 – He’ll be 19 years and 325 days old on Sunday, so if Pedro Acosta wins the Americas GP, he’ll become the youngest rider to win in the premier class, taking the record from Marc Marquez (20 years and 63 days old in Austin in 2013). If he finishes on the podium, he’ll become the youngest rider to take back-to-back premier class podiums, taking the record from Marc Marquez, also in Austin 2013.

6 – There are six 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 – If Jack Miller, Maverick Viñales or Alex Rins win the GP race, they will become the first rider to win on bikes from three different manufacturers since the start of the MotoGP era in 2002.

1 – KTM/GASGAS and Aprilia riders could give their factory a maiden premier class podium at COTA.

Francesco Bagnaia took his second Moto2 win at COTA in 2018 (pictured here), and has one MotoGP podium here, finishing P3 in 2021. He has qualified on pole twice here, in 2021 and in 2023. In 2022, he finished P5 and in 2023, he won the Sprint but crashed out on Sunday after leading the opening seven laps.

Johann Zarco finished on the podium twice in Moto2: P2 in 2015 and P3 in 2016. He finished P5 in 2017 (with Yamaha and pictured here) for his best MotoGP result at the track so far.

Luca Marini took his maiden MotoGP podium at COTA, finishing P2 in 2023 (pictured here), which is his best MotoGP result so far.

Maverick Vinales — Maverick Viñales has three podiums: P2 in Moto3 in 2013, a win in Moto2 in 2014 on just his second start in the class, and P2 in MotoGP in 2018 after starting from pole following a grid penalty for Marc Marquez. He finished P4 in 2023 (pictured here), which is Aprilia’s best result in the class at the track.

Fabio Quartararo finished P3 for his first podium since he was also P3 in Malaysia last year. This is his 29th premier class podium, all with Yamaha, moving above MotoGP Legend Max Biaggi into sixth on the list of Yamaha riders with most podiums in the class. — Fabio Quartararo stood on the podium in Moto3 for the first time at COTA in what was the second race of his GP career, finishing P2. He has two podiums at COTA in MotoGP: P2 in 2021 (equalling the best result for Yamaha at the track) and P3 in 2023 (pictured here).

Franco Morbidelli won at COTA in Moto2 in 2017 (pictured here) after taking his second career pole. He finished P5 in MotoGP in 2019, his best MotoGP result at COTA so far.

Enea Bastianini has had two podiums at COTA: P2 in Moto3 in 2018 and a win in MotoGP in 2022 (pictured here). He missed the 2023 Americas GP following a shoulder injury sustained in the first ever Tissot Sprint in Portugal and was replaced by Michele Pirro.

Raul Fernandez has one win here in Moto2, in 2021 (as pictured). In 2019 in Moto3 at COTA, he qualified second for his best qualifying at the time and first front row. His best MotoGP result at COTA is P19 scored in 2022.

Takaaki Nakagami has one podium at COTA: P3 in Moto2 in 2017 (as pictured). In 2019, he finished P10 for his best MotoGP result at the track. Image AJRN

Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Ajo) just pipped Tony Arbolino (Elf MarcVDS Racing Team) on the final lap, — Pedro Acosta has one win in his three visits to COTA in the lower classes, in 2023 in Moto2 (as pictured), on his way to clinching the title.

Brad Binder has one podium at COTA: P3 in Moto3 in 2016 (Pictured). 2021 marked his first MotoGP race at COTA and he finished P9 as top KTM, his best MotoGP result at the track so far.

Joan Mir has a best MotoGP result at COTA of fourth, taken in 2022 (as pictured).

Augusto Fernandez’s best GP result at COTA is P4 scored in Moto2 in 2021 (as pictured). He finished P10 in his first MotoGP race here in 2023.

Aleix Espargaro’s best result in MotoGP at COTA is P5 in 2016 (as pictured), riding a Suzuki. Since he switched to Aprilia in 2017, his best result at COTA has been P10 in 2018.

Alex Rins has won four times at COTA, in Moto3 in 2013 and Moto2 in 2016 (pictured), both from pole, in 2019 for his maiden MotoGP win, defeating Rossi, and in 2023 (his only win and podium with Honda).

Jack Miller has three podiums at COTA: a win in Moto3 in 2014 (pictured) and P3s in MotoGP in 2019 (his first podium with Ducati) and in 2022 from second on the grid. In 2014 he was joined on the Moto3 podium by Romano Fenati and Efren Vazquez.

2021 COTA Moto2 Podium<br />1 Raul Fernandez - Red Bull KTM Ajo - Kalex - 39'10.521<br /> 2 Fabio Di Giannantonio - Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 - Kalex - +1.734<br /> 3 Marco Bezzecchi - Sky Racing Team VR46 - Kalex - +3.100 — Fabio Di Giannantonio has finished twice on the podium at COTA: P3 in Moto3 in 2017 and P2 in Moto2 in 2021 (pictured) behind Raul Fernandez while Marco Bezzecchi rounded out the podium. His best MotoGP result at COTA was P9 in 2023.

Circuit of the Americas Moto3 - Top 10 Race Results Jorge MARTIN SPA Del Conca Gresini Moto3 Enea BASTIANINI ITA Leopard Racing +1.451 Marco BEZZECCHI ITA Redox PruestelGP +4.112 — Marco Bezzecchi has two podiums at COTA: P3 in Moto3 in 2018 and P3 in Moto2 in 2021 behind Enea Bastianini and Jorge Martin (pictured). In 2022 in MotoGP, he crashed and retired. He finished P6 at COTA in 2023.

Alex Marquez has one podium at COTA: P2 in Moto2 in 2018 (pictured) from pole. He finished P12 in 2021 for his best MotoGP result at the track.

Miguel Oliveira finished P3 in Moto2 at COTA in 2018 (pictured), his only podium at the track. In 2023, he finished P5 in MotoGP for his best result in the class at the track, which is also the first of his three top five finishes with Aprilia in the class so far.

Jorge Martin has finished on the podium twice at COTA, both in Moto3: P2 in 2017 and a win in 2018 (pictured). 2021 was Martin’s first race in MotoGP and he finished P5, which is still his best result at the track in the class. He finished P3 in the Sprint in 2023, but crashed out on the opening lap on Sunday, taking out Alex Marquez. Image by AJRN

MotoGP Championship Standings

Pos	Rider	Points
1	MARTIN	60
2	BINDER	42
3	BASTIANINI	39
4	BAGNAIA	37
5	ACOSTA	28
6	M MARQUEZ	27
7	ESPARGARO	25
8	VIÑALES	19
9	MILLER	16
10	DI GIANNANTONIO	15
11	QUARTARARO	15
12	A MARQUEZ	13
13	BEZZECCHI	12
14	OLIVEIRA	8
15	MIR	7
16	FERNANDEZ	5
17	ZARCO	5
18	RINS	3
19	NAKAGAMI	2
20	MARINI	0
21	MORBIDELLI	0
22	R FERNANDEZ	0

Moto2 Championship Standings

Pos	Rider	Points
1	CANET Aron	31
2	ROBERTS Joe	29
3	GONZALEZ Manuel	27
4	GARCIA Sergio	26
5	LOPEZ Alonso	25
6	OGURA Ai	24
7	BALTUS Barry	23
8	RAMIREZ Marcos	17
9	VIETTI Celestino	16
10	ARENAS Albert	16
11	ALDEGUER Fermin	13
12	CHANTRA Somkiat	11
13	ALCOBA Jeremy	9
14	ARBOLINO Tony	4
15	VD GOORBERGH Zonta	3
16	BENDSNEYDER Bo	2
17	AGIUS Senna	2
18	BINDER Darryn	1
19	ÖNCÜ Deniz	1
20	FOGGIA Dennis	0
21	MOREIRA Diogo	0
22	MASIA Jaume	0

Moto3 Championship Standings

Pos	Rider	Points
1	HOLGADO Daniel	45
2	ALONSO David	38
3	ORTOLA Ivan	23
4	VEIJER Collin	21
5	RUEDA Jose Antonio	20
6	KELSO Joel	19
7	NEPA Stefano	19
8	FURUSATO Taiyo	16
9	ROSSI Riccardo	13
10	ESTEBAN Joel	13
11	SUZUKI Tatsuki	12
12	ROULSTONE Jacob	11
13	MUÑOZ David	7
14	FERNANDEZ Adrian	6
15	PIQUERAS Angel	4
16	BERTELLE Matteo	4
17	OGDEN Scott	4
18	CARRARO Nicola	2
19	PEREZ Vicente	2
20	LUNETTA Luca	1
21	DETTWILER Noah	0
22	FARIOLI Filippo	0

COTA MotoGP Schedule AEST

Friday (Sat)
Time	Class	Event
0000 (Sat)	Moto3	FP
0050 (Sat)	Moto2	FP
0145 (Sat)	MotoGP	FP1
0415 (Sat)	Moto3	Practice 1
0505 (Sat)	Moto2	Practice 1
0600 (Sat)	MotoGP	Practice
2340 (Sat)	Moto3	Practice 2

Saturday (Sun)
Time	Class	Event
0025 (Sun)	Moto2	Practice 2
0110 (Sun)	MotoGP	FP2
0150 (Sun)	MotoGP	Q1
0215 (Sun)	MotoGP	Q2
0350 (Sun)	Moto3	Q1
0415 (Sun)	Moto3	Q2
0445 (Sun)	Moto2	Q1
0510 (Sun)	Moto2	Q2
0600 (Sun)	MotoGP	Sprint

Sunday (Mon)
Time	Class	Event
0040 (Mon)	MotoGP	WUP
0200 (Mon)	Moto3	Race
0315 (Mon)	Moto2	Race
0500 (Mon)	MotoGP	Race

2024 FIM MotoGP World Championship calendar (Updated)

Rnd	Date	Location
1	~~10 Mar~~	~~Qatar Lusail International Circuit~~
2	~~24 Mar~~	~~Portugal Autódromo Internacional do Algarve~~
3	14 Apr	Americas Circuit of The Americas
4	28 Apr	Spain Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto
5	12 May	France Le Mans
6	26 May	Catalunya Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
7	02 Jun	Italy Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello
8	16 Jun	Kazakhstan Sokol International Racetrack
9	30 Jun	Netherlands TT Circuit Assen
10	07 Jul	Germany Sachsenring
11	04 Aug	Great Britain Silverstone Circuit
12	18 Aug	Austria Red Bull Ring-Spielberg
13	01 Sep	Aragon MotorLand Aragón
14	08 Sep	San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini Misano
15	22 Sep	India Buddh International Circuit
16	29 Sep	Indonesia Pertamina Mandalika International Circuit
17	06 Oct	Japan Mobility Resort Motegi
18	20 Oct	Australia Phillip Island
19	27 Oct	Thailand Chang International Circuit
20	03 Nov	Malaysia Sepang International Circuit
21	17 Nov	Comunitat Valenciana Circuit Ricardo Tormo