MotoGP Proclaims Reworked Race Weekend Format For 2027

Dash race will get its personal qualifying session

MotoGP race weekends are going to look completely different in 2027, and we're not simply speaking in regards to the new 850cc engine displacement and Pirelli tires. MotoGP introduced a brand new format for every race weekend, with a separate qualifying session for the Dash race, making a separate beginning grid for the Dash and for the Grand Prix.

Beginning subsequent season, the grid for the Saturday Dash races will likely be set by a devoted 15-minute qualifying session on Friday afternoon, open to all riders. The Sunday race may have its personal qualifying classes. Till now, qualifying classes on Saturdays set the grid for each races.

The reworked Friday opens with a 45-minute FP1, unchanged from the present format, adopted by a 30-minute FP2 that replaces the hour-long Follow session. Critically, lap instances in that FP2 now not carry over to determine qualifying entry. The prevailing Follow served because the cut-off that sends the quickest 10 riders straight to Q2 and everybody else by Q1. Beginning subsequent season, Fridays will shut with the brand new Dash qualifying session.

Saturdays will start with a 20-minute FP3, trimmed from the present half-hour, earlier than Grand Prix qualifying. Each rider will participate in Q1, with the highest 12 advancing to Q2. The Dash then runs Saturday afternoon, with a grid established from Friday's qualifier.

Sunday's schedule drops the formal 10-minute MotoGP morning warm-up solely, with the day beginning with the Moto3 and Moto2 races. For the Premier class, pitlane will likely be open for ten minutes earlier than the beginning, permitting racers to have just a few shakedown laps forward of the race.

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