When MotoAmerica racer Héctor Barberá isn’t flying past checkered flags, he’s running from his checkered past. The former Grand Prix rider has his fair share of brushes with the law. In 2013, authorities sentenced Barberá to six months in prison on a domestic violence charge against his then-girlfriend. Officials later commuted the sentence, but Barberá only had another run-in with police in 2014, when he was caught driving a Maserati without a valid driver’s license.
Four years later, in 2018, law enforcement placed the Spanish rider under arrest for driving under the influence. That same incident resulted in Barberá losing his Moto2 seat after being demoted from MotoGP the previous year. Trouble followed the disgraced racer to the Supersport World Championship, where Team Toth Yamaha accused him of stealing one of the squad’s YZF-R6 race bikes.
