Preview and schedule for the 2018 MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix

This weekend, a Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix and a MotoGP World Championship Grand Prix will once again coincide (and not for the last time), with the coincidence that both will take place in Asia. While the F1 single-seaters will race at the Japanese GP, motorcycle riders will debut the Thailand GP, the big novelty of this 2018 season in the World Championship.

The 2018 season featured, for the first time, 19 Grand Prix events, making it the longest season in history. And the big novelty of that calendar was the Thailand GP and the Buriram International Circuit, also called Chang International Circuit for advertising reasons. It will be the first time that World Motorcycle Championship races are run on this track, although it has already been hosting World Superbikes races since 2015.

That said, the circuit is practically new for all the riders, although pre-season tests were already held there. Designed by the German Hermann Tilke, it is a circuit 4,554 kilometres long, with hardly any elevation changes and long straights between its twelve corners, most of them concentrated in a single sector, which gives this circuit two clearly differentiated parts.

Logically, it will be a special race, due to the novelty and the challenge for the riders of being the first to write their name on the honours list of the Thailand GP. Do you want to know who will be the first champion of this race in MotoGP as well as in the other two categories? Then you will need to check the weekend schedule, which you can do below.

Schedule of the 2018 MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix

Due to the time difference between Thailand and Spain, those who want to follow the practice sessions will have to stay up late, and those who want to watch the MotoGP race will have to get up early. These are the schedules for this first MotoGP Thailand GP for our country:

Friday 5 October:

• 04:00 hours -> Moto3 FP1
• 04:55 hours -> MotoGP FP1
• 05:55 hours -> Moto2 FP1
• 08:05 hours -> Moto3 FP2
• 09:05 hours -> MotoGP FP2
• 10:05 hours -> Moto2 FP2

Saturday 6 October:

• 04:00 hours -> Moto3 FP3
• 04:55 hours -> MotoGP FP3
• 05:55 hours -> Moto2 FP3
• 07:35 hours -> Moto3 Qualifying
• 08:30 hours -> MotoGP FP4
• 09:10 hours -> MotoGP Q1
• 09:35 hours -> MotoGP Q2
• 10:05 hours -> Moto2 Qualifying

Sunday 7 October:

• 03:40 hours -> Moto3 warm up
• 04:10 hours -> Moto2 warm up
• 04:40 hours -> MotoGP warm up
• 06:00 hours -> Moto3 race
• 07:20 hours -> Moto2 race
• 09:00 hours -> MotoGP race

As we always tell you, the broadcasting rights to the motorcycle World Championship in Spain are exclusively held by Movistar TV. So, to follow this Grand Prix and the remaining races of the season, you must be a subscriber to this platform and have the motor package, which can be purchased from 10 euros per month.