dates, times and where to see it on TV

After the Austin race won by Vinales the MotoGP returns to the track for the fourth round of World Cup 2024 and makes a stop in Europe for the first time this season: from today, Friday 26 April, to Sunday 28 April in fact the MotoGP World Championship is taking place on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit for the Spanish GP.

The program of the fourth weekend of the season of the premier class is the canonical one: on Friday the MotoGP (but also Moto2 and Moto3) riders take to the track for the first two free practice sessions (FP1 and FP2), on Saturday morning then it is the turn of Free Practice 3 and qualifications with Q1 and Q2 while in the afternoon, only for the top class, there is the Sprint Race, Sunday, as per tradition, ends with the race that will award the most considerable amount of world championship points. Without having to deal with time zones, the times of the various sessions on the Spanish track they will return to being the traditional ones, the same goes for the opening hours live and the live streaming on Sky and free-to-air broadcast on TV8.

There are several interesting ideas on the eve of the Spanish GP where Jorge Martin still leads the world championship standings after finishing ahead of the reigning champion Pecco Bagnaia also in Austin. Among those most awaited in Jerez, in addition to the two rivals who animated the last World Championship, there is Maverick Vinales who has just won a double victory on his Aprilia (in the Sprint and in the long race) in Texas, Enea Bastianini who finally seems to have found the right feeling with his official Ducati and above all the other two Spaniards Marc Marquez, who crashed while leading in the United States, and the very young Pedro Acosta who as a rookie has already amazed everyone in this start to the championship which he presents in his first home season in MotoGP thanks to the second place achieved in the last round.

MotoGP 2024, the times of the Spanish GP and where to see it on Sky and TV8

So let’s go and see what it will be the Spanish GP program of MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3fourth stage of the 2024 MotoGP. Here are the weekend times for the Jerez GP which for MotoGP will officially start with the first free practice session scheduled for today at 10.45am (Italian time) and will end with Sunday’s race April 28th whose departure is scheduled for 2pm (Italian time):

• Friday 26 April (Free practice)
  Moto3
  FP1: 09:00 – 09:35
  FP2: 1.15pm – 1.50pm
  Moto2
  FP1: 09.50 – 10.30
  FP2: 2.05pm – 2.45pm
  MotoGP
  FP1: 10.45 – 11.30
  FP2: 3pm – 4pm
• Saturday 27 April (Qualifying and Sprint Race)
  Moto3
  FP3: 08.40 – 09.10
  Q1: 12.50pm – 1.05pm
  Q2: 1.15pm – 1.30pm
  Moto2
  FP3: 09.25 – 09.55
  Q1: 1.45pm – 2.00pm
  Q2: 2.10pm – 2.25pm
  MotoGP
  FP3: 10:10 – 10:40
  Q1: 10.50 – 11.05
  Q2 11.15 – 11.30
  Sprint Race: 3pm
• Sunday 28 April (Race)
  Moto3
  Race: 11:00
  Moto2
  Race: 12.15pm
  MotoGP
  WU: 09.40 – 09.50
  Race: 2pm

All race weekends of the 2024 MotoGP World Championship in Italy will be broadcast live on TV and in live streaming by Sky. As for the Spanish GP, free practice, qualifying and the race will be broadcast on Sky Sports MotoGP (channel 208 of the satellite decoder) e Sky Sports One (channel 201) and streaming on the app SkyGo. Also in streaming, after subscribing to the ‘Sport Pass’, it will be possible to follow the weekend of the grand prix which will be held in Jerez de la Frontera also on NOW. While the qualifications of the three classes and the MotoGP sprint race on Saturday will also be visible live free to air on TV8 (channel 8 of digital terrestrial) which will broadcast the Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP races on Sunday.

The Jerez de la Frontera circuit

Also this year the MotoGP Spanish GP will be hosted by Jerez de la Frontera circuit named after Angel Nieto. The one located near Cadiz in Andalusia is a 4.4 kilometer track, with 8 right corners, 5 left corners and the longest straight which measures 607 metres.

According to the Brembo technicians, supplier of the braking systems of all the MotoGP riders, the Jerez circuit is a demanding track for the brakes: there are 11 braking sections for a total of 33 seconds per lap. The braking at turn 6 it is the one that involves the greatest effort for the riders and the braking systems with the bikes arriving at 296 km/h and entering the corner at 67 km/h after 5.1 seconds of deceleration during which they are subject to 1.5 Deceleration G.

The track record in MotoGP qualifying it belongs to Pecco Bagnaia who in 2022 took pole by stopping the clock at 1’36.170, the Piedmontese Ducati rider also had the best lap ever during the race with the 1’37.669 recorded in the Spanish GP of same year.