Austrian MotoGP Stats At The Red Bull Ring: Dominated By Ducati

Ducati controls the Red Bull Ring Circuit which is the venue for the Austrian MotoGP. (Photo: MotoGP Doc)

JAKARTA - The 2022 MotoGP race has entered its 13th series. This time the racers will compete at the Red Bull Ring Circuit in Spielberg, Austria, this weekend.

The following are the statistics of the Austrian Grand Prix. MotoGP is back in Austria in 2016 after an 18-year hiatus. The first Austrian GP was held in 1971 at the Salzburgring which has hosted the Grand Prix 22 times.

In the inaugural Austrian GP, Giacomo Agostini (MV Augusta) won the 500cc race after finishing the race with a distance of more than one lap compared to Keith Turner who finished as runner-up.

The last GP at the Salzburgring Circuit took place in 1994 when Mick Doohan won the 500cc race, according to statistics reported by Antara from MotoGP.

The circuit tends to have high speed and limited run-off area, the Salzburgring is considered too dangerous.

The race was then moved to the Red Bull Ring. This circuit has held two GPs before 2016, namely in 1996 and 1997, when the circuit was still called the A1-Ring.

For 2022, the layout of the circuit at Spielberg has been slightly modified with the addition of a chicane after Turn 1.

Here is a list of the most successful riders in Austria (MotoGP class only). Andrea Dovizioso is a rider who has won three times (2017, 2019, 2020/1).

While Andrea Iannone, Jorge Lorenzo, Miguel Oliveira, Jorge Martin, Brad Binder each once.

Ducati has won the Red Bull Ring six times since 2016. Andrea Iannone became the winning Ducati rider in 2016 after starting the race from pole position.

Then there is Andrea Dovizioso in 2017, 2019, and 2020/2021, Jorge Lorenzo in 2018, and Jorge Martin in 2021.

In 2016, Iannone tasted his first win since moving up to the MotoGP class and presented Ducati with his first win since Casey Stoner finished first in the Austrian GP in 2010.

With Dovizioso finishing second, it was Ducati's first 1-2 finish in MotoGP for the first time since the 2007 Australian GP that Stoner won over Loris Capirossi.

Meanwhile, KTM collected two wins at their home circuit as Miguel Oliveira won the 2020 Styria GP which was the first victory for the rider in the class, and Brad Binder at the 2021 Austrian GP.

The Red Bull Ring includes three tracks in the current calendar where Marc Marquez has raced but never won in the premier class. The other two are Portimao and Mandalika.

Heading to Austria, standings leader Fabio Quartararo is under pressure as he sits just 22 points clear of nearest rival Aleix Espargaro. The Aprilia rider is the only driver to always finish with points so far in 2022.

Meanwhile, Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia has slowly crawled to third in the standings with four wins in the last seven races.

Bagnaia's victory was complemented by Jack Miller on the podium at the British Grand Prix two weeks ago, thus becoming a new milestone for Ducati, which is now on its 200th podium in MotoGP.