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MOTOGP 2020 IN REVIEW Feature P124 chanical problem at the first Valencia round, then a monster crash in practice at the second, saw his chances of a long-awaited Moto2 title slip away. He gathered himself for third place at Portimao, sealing third in the championship. It was left to Bastianini to take the gold with 205 points after wins at Jerez and San Marino 2, sealing the title with a tense fifth place behind first time-winner, Remy Gardner. Bastianini and Marini will now head to MotoGP in the Esponsarama Racing Ducati team, which will be rebranded Sky VR46 for the 2022 season. Gardner will replace Pramac Ducati-bound Jorge Martin. American Joe Roberts enjoyed a break- through year in seventh overall with three pole positions, including round one at Qatar, and his first podium at Brno's round three. Roberts moves to the Italtrans team in 2021, replacing World Champion Bastianini. The USA will have another reason to watch Moto2 in 2021 with the arrival of Cameron Beau- bier in the American Racing Kalex team. Beaubier takes Roberts' vacated spot, and judging by his speed at the end-of-year test at Jerez, will be right at the front when the green light goes out at round one of Qatar next year. Moto3 Aspar KTM's Albert Arenas finally clinched his first Moto3 World Championship in 2020, coming out on top in a class where a tenth of a second of- ten means the difference between first of fifth place. Arenas took three victories in Moto3 2020, but never scored another win after round five. He was chased home in the title by Toni Arbo- lino, who crucially missed the Aragon round due to Covid-19 quarantine rules after sitting next to someone on a plane who tested positive. Arbolino took one win at Valencia, heading home Ai Ogura and the late-season sensation Raul Fernandez, who took two wins for Red Bull KTM for fourth overall. Arenas, Ogura, Arbolino, Fernandez and Celestino Vietti—fifth in Moto3—will all move up to the Moto2 category next year. MotoE The MotoE World Cup was diluted to seven rounds in 2020, with the Spanish Elvis, Jordi Torres, taking the crown with 114 points with his single race win coming at Le Mans' race one. Torres headed 2019 champion Matteo Ferrari and former Moto2 sparing partner Dominique Aegert- er, who each, took two race wins. CN This was as spaced out as Moto3 got all year, and Albert Arenas (75) made the least mistakes of the lot to take the title. Sneeze in the wrong part of the track and you lose 10 spots. Former Moto2 and WorldSBK rider, Spaniard Jordi Torres, emerged victorious in MotoE.