Carlos Ezpeleta, The MotoGP sports director, entered this afternoon at Motorland Aragón the details of the new Grand Prix format from 2023 with the introduction of sprint races on Saturdays and what will be another novelty on Sundays, greater interaction of MotoGP riders to the fans, the ‘Riders Fan Show’ which will be at 10 am and will last for half an hour.
The Sprint Race It will take place at 3:00 pm on Saturday and will not count for wins or fastest lap statistics and will be a separate podium. Sunday warmups for Moto2 and Moto3 will be removed and MotoGP will be reduced to just 10 minutes. Throughout the weekend there will be 3 free practice sessions for all categories, but only FP1 and FP2 will decide the entrance to Q1 and Q2, which will continue to be 15′ each as at present.
as it turns out the Sprint Race will not affect the starting grid of Sunday’s race, so the grid positions for both races will be decided in qualifying. The Sprint Race will have half the distance compared to the standard race and so will the points awarded. The winner will receive 12 points, 9 for 2nd, 7 for 3rd, 6 for 4th and so on until the final point for ninth place.
The duration of Free Practice on Friday also varies, for Moto3 it will be 35 minutes, 40 minutes for Moto2 and for MotoGP, FP1 will be 45 minutes and FP2 one hour. Saturday’s FP3 (it does not count to decide direct access to Q2 but rather to prepare for the race) will last 30 minutes for three categories.
The races will maintain the current Central European timetable: 11 am Moto3, 12:20 pm Moto2 and 2 pm MotoGP.
About that new Sunday of ‘Riders Fan Show’ Ezpeleta He did not elaborate: “We have a very strong package of three world-class races, with very important monitoring both for the fans on the circuit and for the fans at home, we do not want to break the block from 11 to 15 hours . But now we have this claim that the riders, the important heroes, that the MotoGPs are available from 10 to 10:30. The job is for more people to consider them heroes, but for those knowing them, they are already heroes,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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