Aleix Espargaró Villà (born 30 July 1989) is a Spanish motorcycle road racer. He competes in the MotoGP class of the Grand Prix Motorcycle World Championship, racing for Aprilia.

Espargaró was born in Granollers, Spain. In 2006, Espagaró moved to the 250cc class of Grand Prix Motorcycle World Championship racing mid-season, from the 125cc class. After Sebastian Porto ended his career, Martin Cardenas replaced Porto, and Aleix took Cardenas' spot.

For 2009, Espagaró was offered a deal with the Italian Campetella Racing team but they withdrew, leaving himwithout a permanent ride, but had two substitute appearances at Assen and Sachsenring for the Balatonring Team. He also acted as a Moto2 development rider. On 19 August 2009, it was announced Espargaró would race for Pramac Racing in MotoGP in Indianapolis and Misano. He replaced Mika Kallio, who in turn replaced Casey Stoner at the Ducati works team.

On 6 October 2009, it was announced that Espargaró had signed an agreement with Pramac Ducati to race in the 2010 MotoGP Championship. He replaced Niccolò Canepa in the team. He also replaced the injured Canepa for the last two races of the 2009 season in Sepang and Valencia.

After a year back in Moto2 in 2011, Espargaro returned to the MotoGP class, and was the highest-placed CRT rider for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

In 2014, he recorded his first-ever pole position at the Dutch TT at Assen, coming in his 150th Grand Prix weekend. At the end of the season, after dominating the Open Class – previously known as CRT – he signed for the Suzuki works team to ride their new GSX-RR from 2015.

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