It’s now or never. The fourth and final round of the 2020 MotoGP™ eSport Championship gets underway this Friday 27th November with as many as four names in with a realistic shout of lifting the crown!
The 2020 MotoGP™ season has so far been about one man and one man alone: Williams_Adrian. But the Spaniard isn’t home and dry just yet. Brother Williams_Cristian (39 points behind), former MotoGP™ eSport champ trastevere73 (61 points back) and the much-improved Juan_nh16 (69 points behind) remain in contention. And with double points on offer in the final two races, the championship still has time to be turned upside down!
With that in mind, what better time than now to remind ourselves of what happened during a thrilling third round of the series, that took place at the end of October.
As we saw at round two, it was yet another exhibition from the Montenegro brothers – Williams_Adrian and Williams_Cristian. The pair were formation flying and dominated proceedings in the double header that saw the eleven finalists take on the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli and then Australia’s awesome Phillip Island.
There was drama from the very first turn of the Misano bout as a collision between trastevere73 for Monster Energy Yamaha and Ducati Team’s AndrewZH – the winners of the past three MotoGP eSport Championships – led to the former falling. The latter then crashed at turn eight in a chaotic opening, in which four men fell on the first lap.
At the front we were treated to a display of controlled aggression from Red Bull KTM’s Williams_Adrian, who got the jump, led from lap one and maintained an unerring consistency in light of constant pressure from Williams_Cristian, competing for Ecstar Suzuki. He maintained his pace all the way to the flag to win by 1.7 seconds.
Race two quickly fell into a familiar pattern. Williams_Adrian once again led from the front and dictated the pace while Williams_Cristian and trastevere73 pushed from behind. Meanwhile, another early crash left AndrewZH’s championship challenge in tatters.
Despite the glorious Phillip Island favouring the sweet handling Suzuki GSX-RR and Yamaha M1, Williams_Adrian didn’t put a foot wrong aboard his KTM RC16 to win by the narrowest of margins – just 0.3s covered the two Montenegro brothers, while trastevere73 made a welcome return to the podium, just 0.9s behind.
Due to the restrictions placed on the MotoGP™ paddock during the global pandemic, eSport races can no longer be held on site. Finalists will be competing from home on Friday 30th October at 16:00 (GMT+1). As ever, they’ll be race with the new official MotoGP™20 Videogame from videogame developer, publisher and longstanding partner Milestone – which is available to buy now – with both race direction and the event powered by Lenovo PCs.
The eleven finalists will race the historic Silverstone circuit, the scene of the British Grand Prix, in the first encounter and the highly technical Ricardo Tormo Circuit outside Valencia, for the second. Both will be held over ten laps.
Round 4 of 2020 will be broadcast live on MotoGP™ eSport YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, on MotoGP™ social channels, esport.motogp.com, motogp.com and selected TV broadcast partners.
Who will be the 2020 MotoGP eSport World Champion? Be sure to tune in at 4pm (GMT+1) on Friday 27th November to find out!
The final round of 2020 will be broadcast on motogp.com and esport.motogp.com, on selected TV broadcasters, and across social media platforms including YouTube (via the MotoGP™ and MotoGP™ eSport channels), MotoGP™ eSport Twitter, Instagram, Facebook (via MotoGP™ and MotoGP™ eSport pages) and Twitch via MotoGP™ and MotoGP™ eSport.
