Marc Márquez has the highest percentage of crashes per Grand Prix (1.5) and Pol Espargaró and Álex Márquez are the non-debutants who have crashed the most times this year (21)
Rookies Darryn Binder (27) and Marco Bezzecchi (23) lead the list and Maverick Viñales is the driver with the fewest accidents (2) throughout the 20 Grand Prix
MotoGP has provided its data on registered falls this season in the three categories, by pilots and circuits. And one more year Honda’s balance sheet remains disastrous. Unlike previous years, Marc Márquez He is not the pilot who has crashed the most times in 2022: The dubious honor belongs to the South African Darry Binder. But the eighth champion is the driver who has suffered the most falls for each Grand Prix disputed. And what is worse, if we leave aside the rookies in the queen class, the other Spaniards from Honda, Pol Espargaro in the official Repsol Honda and Alex Marquez in the LCR Honda, they are also at the top of the table. At the opposite extreme, Maverick Vinales He is the rider with the fewest crashes, only 2 all year.
Darryn Binderwho this year has made his debut in MotoGP with the RNF Racing satellite Yamaha and will not be on the maximum displacement grid next season, leads the ranking with a total of 27 crashes, ahead of the ‘rookie’ of the year Marco Bezzecchi, who has crashed 23 times on his Ducati. Marc Márquez He has gone to the ground 18 times, but his percentage is higher, since it is limited to only twelve Grand Prix because the man from Cervera missed several races due to his episodes of diplopia and the fourth operation on his right arm. In other words, he has an average of 1.5 crashes per weekend, which is higher than the average for binderswhich is at 1.35.
Pol Espargaró and Álex Márquez they occupy the third and fourth position in absolute terms and are the first two non-rookies. Both have crashed 21 times throughout the season, more than once per Grand Prix. In absolute terms Ducati, which has eight motorcycles on the track, is the brand with the most crashes recorded in total, but the Japanese from Honda, with four motorcycles, have a worse average than the Italians.
Fabio Quartararo He doesn’t have too many crashes on his account (7) but he does have a problem: four of those crashes were in the race. The champion pecco bagnaia he went down twice as many times (14), but still managed to wrest the crown from the Frenchman in 2022.
By circuits, the ones that top the list with the most incidents are the Algarve International Autodrome (105), Le Mans (87) and the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli (71).
The ones that have fallen the most in all categories:
Darryn BINDER (MotoGP) 27
Keminth KUBO (Moto2) 25
Marco BEZZECCHI (MotoGP) 23
Elia BARTOLINI (Moto3) 22
Niccolo ANTONELLI (Moto2) 22
Pol ESPARGARO (MotoGP) 21
Alex MARQUEZ (MotoGP) 21
Kaito TOBA (Moto3) 20
Aron CANET (Moto2) 20
Jack DIXON (Moto2) 20
Jorge NAVARRO (Moto2) 19
Ranking of falls in MotoGP:
Darryn BINDER 27
Frame BEZZECCHI 23
Pol ESPARGARO 21
Alex MARQUEZ 21
Marc MARQUEZ 18
Enea BASTIANINI 18
Johann ZARCO 18
George MARTIN 15
Francesco BAGNAIA 14
Aleix ESPARGARO 14
Remy GARDNER 14
Jack Miller 14
Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO 12
Takaaki NAKAGAMI 12
Joan MIR 11
Franco MORBIDELL 10
brad binder 9
Raul FERNANDEZ 9
Miguel OLIVERA 9
Luca MARINI 7
Fabio QUARTARARO 7
Alex RINS 7
Andrea DOVIZIOSO 2
Maverick VIÑALES 2