2020 Supersport World Championship

2020 Supersport World Championship

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The 2020 Supersport World Championship was the twenty-fourth season of the Supersport World Championship, the twenty-second held under this name.

Race calendar and results

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Qatar round was postponed to an unannounced date ^[1] and the Jerez, ^[2] Assen, ^[3] Aragon and Misano rounds were rescheduled to a later date, while the Imola ^[4] and Oschersleben ^[5] rounds were cancelled. As a result of updates made to the MotoGP calendar for the same reason, the French round date was also affected. ^[2] Despite having already been rescheduled, the Assen round was later postponed to a to-be-determined date, along with the Donington round. ^[6]

On 19 June, an updated calendar was published; for the restart, Jerez and Portimão were brought forward from their respective dates and a second round at Aragon was added to the schedule. Other five rounds—the first at Aragon, as well as Barcelona, Magny-Cours, San Juan and Misano—either kept their original or revised dates, although the latter two events were labelled as 'to be confirmed'. Three rounds—Losail, Donington and Assen—were included without a confirmed date ^{[7] [8]} and were subsequently cancelled on 24 July. ^[9] The San Juan round was cancelled on the 13 August ^[10] whilst the Misano round was cancelled and replaced by a round in Estoril on 18 August. ^{[11] [12]}

Along with the calendar, the event timetable was also revised, as an additional race to be held on Saturday was added to each remaining weekend. ^[13]

2020 calendar [14]
Rnd	Country	Circuit	Date	Superpole	Fastest lap	Winning rider	Winning team	Winning constructor
1	Australia	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	1 March	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
2	Spain	Circuito de Jerez	1 August [lower-alpha 1]	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
			2 August [lower-alpha 1]		Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
3	Portugal	Algarve International Circuit	8 August [lower-alpha 2]	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
			9 August [lower-alpha 2]		Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
4	Spain	MotorLand Aragón	29 August [lower-alpha 3]	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
			30 August [lower-alpha 3]		Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
5			5 September [lower-alpha 4]	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
			6 September [lower-alpha 4]		Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
6		Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	19 September	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	Andy Verdoïa	bLU cRU WorldSSP by MS Racing	Yamaha
			20 September		Isaac Viñales	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
7	France	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	3 October [lower-alpha 5]	Kyle Smith	Andrea Locatelli	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
			4 October [lower-alpha 5]		Hannes Soomer	Lucas Mahias	Kawasaki Puccetti Racing	Kawasaki
8	Portugal	Circuito do Estoril	17 October [lower-alpha 6]	Andrea Locatelli	Isaac Viñales	Andrea Locatelli	BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team	Yamaha
			18 October [lower-alpha 6]		Isaac Viñales	Lucas Mahias	Kawasaki Puccetti Racing	Kawasaki
Races under contract to run in 2020, but cancelled:
—	Qatar	Losail International Circuit	N/A [lower-alpha 7]	—
—	Netherlands	TT Circuit Assen	N/A [lower-alpha 8]	—
—	Italy	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	N/A [lower-alpha 9]	—
—	United Kingdom	Donington Park	N/A [lower-alpha 10]	—
—	Germany	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	N/A [lower-alpha 11]	—
—	Argentina	Circuito San Juan Villicum	N/A [lower-alpha 12]	—
—	Italy	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli	N/A [lower-alpha 13]	—

Entry list

2020 entry list [15] Team Constructor Motorcycle No. Rider Rounds MV Agusta Reparto Corse MV Agusta F3 675 1 Randy Krummenacher [16] 1 3 Raffaele De Rosa [15] All 22 Federico Fuligni [15] All EAB Ten Kate Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 4 Steven Odendaal [17] All Kawasaki Puccetti Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R 5 Philipp Öttl [18] All 44 Lucas Mahias [18] All Dynavolt Honda Honda CBR600RR 6 María Herrera [19] 3 52 Patrick Hobelsberger [20] All 77 Miquel Pons [21] 6 78 Hikari Okubo [22] 1–2, 4–5, 7–8 Altogoo Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R6 6 María Herrera [23] 5 bLU cRU WorldSSP by MS Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 9 Galang Hendra Pratama [24] All 25 Andy Verdoïa [24] All GMT94 Yamaha Yamaha YZF-R6 11 Kyle Smith [25] 6–7 16 Jules Cluzel [26] 1–5, 8 85 Óscar Gutiérrez [21] 6 94 Corentin Perolari [26] All OXXO Yamaha Team Tóth Yamaha YZF-R6 21 Vincent Falcone [27] 8 56 Péter Sebestyén [28] All 84 Loris Cresson [29] 1–7 Parkalgar Yamaha – Evan Bros Yamaha YZF-R6 28 Victor Barros [27] 8 MPM Routz Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R6 30 Glenn van Straalen [21] 6–8 74 Jaimie van Sikkelerus [30] 1 83 Lachlan Epis [31] 2–5 Kallio Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 32 Isaac Viñales [32] All 38 Hannes Soomer [32] All Moto Team Jura Vitesse Yamaha YZF-R6 42 Stéphane Frossard [33] 7 Blackflag Motorsport Kawasaki ZX-6R 43 Stefano Valtulini [34] 4 BARDAHL Evan Bros. WorldSSP Team Yamaha YZF-R6 55 Andrea Locatelli [35] All DEZA–ISMABON Racing Team Kawasaki ZX-6R 57 Guillem Erill [21] 6 Turkish Racing Team Kawasaki ZX-6R 61 Can Öncü [36] All Cube Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 68 Oliver Bayliss [37] 1 Wójcik Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R6 71 Christoffer Bergman [38] 1–2 H43 Team Nobby Yamaha YZF-R6 77 Miquel Pons [19] 3 Kawasaki ParkinGO Team Kawasaki ZX-6R 81 Manuel González [15] All WRP Wepol Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 98 Karel Hanika [33] 7–8 99 Danny Webb [15] All WorldSSP Challenge entries DK Motorsport Yamaha YZF-R6 2 Luigi Montella [39] 2–7 Altogoo Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R6 6 María Herrera [34] 4 34 Kevin Manfredi [19] 3, 5–8 48 Xavier Navand [15] 2 Emperador Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R6 12 Alejandro Ruiz [15] 2–8 Soradis Yamaha Motoxracing Yamaha YZF-R6 47 Axel Bassani [15] 2–8

Key Regular rider Wildcard rider Replacement rider

• All entries used Pirelli tyres.

Championship standings

Points

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Points	25	20	16	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Riders' championship

Pos. Rider Bike PHI JER POR ARA ARA CAT MAG EST Pts. 1 Andrea Locatelli Yamaha 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 Ret 1 2 333 2 Lucas Mahias Kawasaki 4 4 3 2 Ret 5 4 4 2 2 2 2 1 Ret 1 229 3 Philipp Öttl Kawasaki Ret 3 4 7 5 3 5 5 4 8 3 14 11 2 5 162 4 Jules Cluzel Yamaha 2 2 2 6 2 2 2 3 Ret 9 9 160 5 Steven Odendaal Yamaha 6 6 8 8 4 6 8 Ret 9 6 5 12 4 5 4 136 6 Raffaele De Rosa MV Agusta DSQ 5 5 3 12 4 3 2 Ret 14 4 4 Ret Ret 3 135 7 Manuel González Kawasaki 7 8 10 10 6 8 10 6 8 7 7 7 6 7 7 126 8 Isaac Viñales Yamaha 8 Ret 7 5 3 7 6 Ret 3 15 6 13 Ret 4 6 116 9 Hannes Soomer Yamaha 5 10 9 9 8 Ret Ret 19 5 13 10 3 3 3 8 115 10 Corentin Perolari Yamaha 3 7 6 4 7 10 7 9 7 16 8 11 Ret 10 13 110 11 Danny Webb Yamaha 10 12 11 11 22 9 9 8 10 18 9 10 8 11 10 80 12 Can Öncü Kawasaki 9 9 12 Ret 10 13 13 Ret Ret 12 Ret 6 7 6 14 65 13 Péter Sebestyén Yamaha 12 Ret DNS 12 11 Ret 11 7 6 20 11 9 Ret Ret Ret 49 14 Kevin Manfredi Yamaha Ret 13 13 Ret 5 13 5 10 14 18 39 15 Kyle Smith Yamaha 3 Ret Ret 2 36 16 Andy Verdoïa Yamaha 13 Ret 15 Ret 20 20 19 15 15 1 14 18 Ret 15 15 35 17 Axel Bassani Yamaha Ret Ret 13 19 18 Ret 14 13 10 12 15 14 8 12 33 18 Federico Fuligni MV Agusta DSQ 13 14 Ret 16 12 12 10 14 17 Ret 8 Ret 13 17 32 19 Alejandro Ruiz Yamaha 11 13 DNS DNS 11 14 11 11 23 18 16 Ret Ret 16 25 20 Karel Hanika Yamaha Ret 5 Ret 11 16 21 Miquel Pons Yamaha 14 9 16 Honda 9 17 22 Hikari Okubo Honda Ret Ret Ret 17 15 Ret DNS Ret 9 12 Ret 12 23 Loris Cresson Yamaha 15 14 18 15 14 19 17 16 16 11 15 17 Ret 12 24 Galang Hendra Pratama Yamaha 16 Ret 16 17 15 16 21 12 12 Ret Ret Ret 13 16 Ret 12 25 Patrick Hobelsberger Honda 11 Ret Ret 16 17 15 18 Ret 19 21 Ret DNS DNS 18 20 6 26 Glenn van Straalen Yamaha 22 16 Ret 12 17 19 4 27 María Herrera Honda 19 18 2 Yamaha 14 20 17 17 28 Jaimie van Sikkelerus Yamaha 14 2 29 Luigi Montella Yamaha 15 19 Ret 21 21 22 18 Ret 24 19 DNQ DNQ 1 Stefano Valtulini Yamaha Ret 16 0 Lachlan Epis Yamaha 16 17 18 Ret Ret Ret Ret 18 0 Vincent Falcone Yamaha 19 21 0 Óscar Gutiérrez Yamaha 19 Ret 0 Guillem Erill Kawasaki Ret 20 0 Victor Barros Yamaha Ret 22 0 Stéphane Frossard Yamaha Ret Ret 0 Christoffer Bergman Yamaha Ret DNS DNS 0 Randy Krummenacher MV Agusta DSQ 0 Oliver Bayliss Yamaha DNS 0 Xavier Navand Yamaha WD WD 0 Pos. Rider Bike PHI JER POR ARA ARA CAT MAG EST Pts.

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap

Manufacturers' championship

Pos.	Manufacturer	PHI	JER		POR		ARA		ARA		CAT		MAG		EST		Pts.
1	Yamaha	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	365
2	Kawasaki	4	3	3	2	5	3	4	4	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	268
3	MV Agusta	DSQ	5	5	3	12	4	3	2	14	14	4	4	Ret	13	3	140
4	Honda	11	Ret	Ret	16	17	15	15	Ret	19	9	17	Ret	9	12	20	25
Pos.	Manufacturer	PHI	JER		POR		ARA		ARA		CAT		MAG		EST		Pts.

Notes

1. The Jerez round was originally due to take place on 27–29 March 2020. It was first postponed to 23–25 October ^[2] and later moved to 31 July–2 August ^[7] in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. The Portimão round was originally due to take place on 4–6 September 2020. It was moved to 7–9 August in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. The Aragon round was originally due to take place on 22–24 May 2020. It was postponed to 28–30 August in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[4]
4. The second Aragon round was added to the calendar on 19 June 2020. ^[7]
5. The Magny-Cours round was originally due to take place on 25–27 September 2020. It was postponed to 2–4 October in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[2]
6. The Estoril round was added to the calendar on 18 August 2020. It replaced the Misano round which was cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[11]
7. The Qatar round was originally due to take place on 13–15 March 2020. It was postponed to an unannounced date ^[1] and subsequently cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[9]
8. The Assen round was originally due to take place on 17–19 April 2020. It was postponed first to 21–23 August, ^[3] later to an unannounced date ^[7] and subsequently cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[9]
9. The Imola round was originally due to take place on 8–10 May 2020. It was cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[4]
10. The Donington round was originally due to take place on 3–5 July 2020. It was postponed to an unannounced date ^[7] and subsequently cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[9]
11. The Oschersleben round was originally due to take place on 31 July–2 August 2020. It was cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[5]
12. The Argentina round was originally due to take place on 9–11 October 2020. It was cancelled on 13 August 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[10]
13. The Misano round was originally due to take place on 12–14 June 2020. It was initially postponed to 6–8 November, but was later cancelled on 18 August 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[11]

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