MotoGP format change from next British GP

The teams of MotoGP reached a unanimous agreement with the recent Grand Prix Commission to immediately change the format of the Grand Prix weekend. In the next race of the MotoGP World Championship, the MotoGP British GP, which will be held at Silverstone from August 4 to 6, a series of changes will be applied that will especially affect the direct impact of free practice on the weekend’s result

The main change is that the times achieved by riders in the first free practice of a MotoGP weekend (FP1 every Friday, 45 minutes) will no longer be taken into account to select the riders who will go directly to the second qualifying round on Saturday ( Q2 ). In other words, there will be no need to do a combined classification between Friday sessions to see which drivers will or will not enter that Q2. Now, everything depends on a session that will be held on Friday afternoon.

‘Practice’ was born to get the ticket to Q2

The only Friday session that will help drivers find their best times to make the cut directly into Q2 is the second session, which will be renamed ‘Practice’, with a total duration of 60 minutes.

Another of the changes that will be applied is the reduction of the first session on Saturday, which is held before qualifying. That session will last only 30 minutes and will be renamed Free 2 (FP2).

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This is the new MotoGP weekend format:

Friday:

• Free training 1: 45 minutes. Times have no effect.
• EXERCISE: 60 minutes. The pilots play a direct pass to Q2 in their times.

Saturday:

• Free practice 2: 30 minutes. Times have no effect.
• Classification Q1 (15 minutes) and Q2 (15 minutes)
• sprint race

Sunday:

• Warm up: 10 minutes
• career