Rider photos sourced from MotoGP.com
Below we have provided the 2020 pre-season rider trajectory rankings for Efficiency Index.
The Efficiency Index identifies a rider’s ability to make forward progress throughout a race. This (new) index takes into account each rider’s performance in both free practice and qualifying as the starting grid position is used to weight/handicap the overall efficiency.
This index rewards riders for 4 complimentary performance factors:
1. A strong starting grid position
2. A positive net movement meaning they finished the race ahead of their starting position
3. A large net movement value which suggests they overtook a significant amount of their opponents
4. A lower volatility signifying productive movement
The trajectories track each rider’s rate of improvement from 2015 – 2019. A negative number resembles a quicker improvement rate over time as a smaller value identifies a more consistent, superior performance.
Riders with less than two season in the Moto2 series are not included as they do not have an appropriate amount of data to calculate a trajectory.
Efficiency Index Trajectory Ranking:
| Rank | Index | Rider |
| 1 | – 0.1193 | Thomas Luthi |
| 2 | – 0.0832 | Hafizh Syahrin |
| 3 | – 0.0745 | Lorenzo Baldassarri |
| 4 | – 0.0594 | Luca Marini |
| 5 | – 0.0582 | Tetsuta Nagashima |
| 6 | – 0.0382 | Joe Roberts |
| 7 | – 0.0349 | Augusto Fernandez |
| 8 | – 0.0349 | Edgar Pons |
| 9 | – 0.0252 | Remy Gardner |
| 10 | – 0.0181 | Jorge Navarro |
| 11 | – 0.0118 | Simone Corse |
| 12 | – 0.0116 | Stefano Manzi |
| 13 | + 0.0130 | Jake Dixon |
| 14 | + 0.0235 | Marcel Schrotter |
| 15 | + 0.0449 | Xavi Vierge |
| 16 | + 0.0501 | Jesko Raffin |
| 17 | + 0.0807 | Sam Lowes |
| 18 | + 0.0812 | Bo Bendsneyder |