MotoGP Circuit with Most Crashes According to Statistics

RiderTua.com – Marc Marquez, Pecco Bagnaia, and Maverick Vinales, 3 MotoGP riders crashed at the Portuguese GP. However, the Algarve circuit in Portimao, which is called a roller coaster… is not the circuit with the highest number of crashes in statistical data. Which circuit has the most crashes in all classes?

Numbers don’t lie, especially when collected over a longer period of time. This is compensation for anomalies such as sudden rain or the chaos of a flag to flag race. A track is often considered ‘horror’ because there was a spectacular crash there or because there was a mass crash.

But crashes are still crashes and we are faced with the difficult question of whether race tracks where crashes occur frequently are automatically safer? Or do riders become more ‘brave’ on tracks where they know that a crash will most likely not cause serious consequences so they more often push themselves to the maximum limit or even exceed it?

Horror MotoGP Circuit According to Statistics

If you run the gas on a bike on a race track like Philip Island, Misano, Silverstone, Sachsenring or Red Bull Ring you might ‘shudder’ when you imagine performing optimally on a windy and super fast circuit like the race tracks mentioned above. Of course we remember Maverick Vinales who was riding a Yamaha and jumped off his bike at the end of the straight (start-finish) because the front brake was not installed correctly…

If all the crashes on all MotoGP tracks since 2018 are added up and then divided by the number of racing events, accurate data will be obtained. Qatar and the Red Bull Ring (8 times each) are frequent race tracks and India was added to the calendar for the first time last year.

So far, the weekend with the most crashes was Jerez in 2018 (155 crashes due to heavy rain) and the track with the fewest crashes was Motorland Aragon in 2019 (only 15 crashes). This is the track where riders crash most often and the track where riders crash least often.

Average number of crashes per race weekend (all classes):

1. Le Mans: 97.17
2. Buddha: 79
3. Valencia: 70.86
4. Misano: 66.38
5. Philip Island: 61.75
6. Barcelona: 59.5
7. Sepang: 56.75
8. Motegi: 53.5
9. Portimao: 52.7
10. Mandalika: 52
11. Jerez: 51.7
12. Texas: 50.6
13. Sachsenring: 48.6
14. Assen: 47
15. Brno: 46.3
16. Mugello: 42.6
17. Thailand: 41.75
18. Silverstone: 41.6
19. Red Bull Ring: 38.63
20. Aragon: 36.67
21. Qatar: 33.55
22. Argentina: 30.5