Héctor Barberá

Héctor Barberá Vall is a Spanish former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, born on 2 November 1986 in Dos Aguas in the Province of Valencia. He competed in MotoGP, Moto2, Superbike and MotoAmerica for more than two decades, from 2002 to 2023. He began at fifteen by winning the 2002 Spanish 125 Championship under Jorge Martinez Aspar, scored his first Grand Prix victory at Donington Park in 2003 and finished runner-up in the 125cc class. In 2009 he won three races and finished second to Hiroshi Aoyama in the final 250cc season, winning the last two-stroke 250cc race at Valencia. His career best in the MotoGP standings was tenth in 2016, the year of his only two races for the factory Ducati team.