MotoGP Sprints to Have Their Own Qualifying Sessions
The revised weekend format adds a separate sprint grid and cuts practice time, with all riders entering Q1 before 12 advance to Q2.
- On Wednesday, MotoGP announced a revised 2027 weekend format introducing a dedicated Qualifying session for Sprint races, creating a separate grid for the shorter, high-intensity events.
- Since Sprint races were introduced in 2023, both the Sprint and Grand Prix grids have relied on a single Saturday Qualifying session, a system now being replaced.
- To accommodate the new 15-minute Sprint Qualifying, MotoGP will shorten Friday FP2 to 30 minutes and eliminate the ten-minute Sunday Warm-up session entirely.
- All riders will participate in Q1-Q2, with the twelve fastest progressing to the pole position shootout, while the pitlane opens for 10 minutes for sighting laps.
- "The new format balances an incredible spectacle for fans and new stakes in each session," MotoGP said in a statement regarding the changes arriving next year.
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MotoGP management has announced a complete reorganization of the competition format in the Royal Class, which will come into effect from the 2027 season. The main change envisages the introduction of two separate qualifying sessions – one for the Saturday sprint race and the second for the main Sunday race, by analogy with the sprint stages in Formula 1. Unlike F1, however, in the world championship of motorcycling on the track sprint starts are…
So far there was only one qualifying session, on Saturday morning, which determined the starting grid for both Saturday afternoon's sprint and Sunday's Grand Prix. Next season, Grand Prix Fridays will have two free training sessions, 45 and then 30 minutes, plus a 15-minute rating session, which will define the starting grid for the sprint race. On Saturday morning a third free session of 20 minutes will be held and then the drivers will play th…
Introduced a series of modifications, change also the qualifications for the race
From the coming season onwards, the MotoGP, like the Formula 1, will have its own qualifying in front of sprint races. So far, there has been only one qualification in the motorcycle elite class and thus the same starting line-up for both races of a weekend.
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