This weekend, the Thai Grand Prix will honor the seventeenth meeting of a season still undecided for the attribution of the MotoGP title. But not only. If the pilots will return to tropical torpor after the Australian coolness, the weather will remain a subject if we are willing to remember the previous edition in Buriram. As for the two other rounds to which it succeeds successively, this stage will require a more than early awakening, with the particularity that between the night of Saturday and Sunday, it will be necessary to switch to winter time...
Le MotoGP knows the Thailand Grand Prix in its calendar since 2018, but only claims two winners in three editions. Indeed, the pandemic has been there, preventing visits in 2020 and 2021. Otherwise, on the list of winners, Marc Marquez won the prize in 2018 and 2019, then Miguel Oliveira with her KTM in the rain last year.
Never Ducati therefore triumphed on this route also called “Chang International Circuit” which is 4,554 km long, has five left turns and seven right turns. It was designed by Hermann Tilke and was officially opened on October 4, 2014. The longest straight line is exactly one kilometer long.
In the championships, if Pecco Bagnaia trademark Sept points more than Brad Binder, Ducati can be sure that the world crown will go to one of its riders at the end of the year.
In Moto2, Peter Acosta can be Moto2 world champion this Sunday. To do this, Acosta should add 19 points more than its Italian rival Tony Arbolino at the close of the Thai race, increasing the gap between them to 75 points, a distance thatArbolino could no longer recover during the last three Grands Prix.
There are only two possible scenarios for Pedro Acosta be champion on Sunday: win the race and hope that Tony Arbolino or 10th or worse. Or finish second and the Marc VDS driver finishes in 15th place or worse. In Moto3, it's much tighter between farmhouse, Sasaki et holgado, the trio being separated by 22 points, four of which separate the first two.
Here are the times for this weekend, remembering to go back one hour in the night from Saturday to Sunday:
MotoGP Thailand: timetables
Friday October 27 (CEST):
04:00 – 04:35 (35 min): Moto3, FP1
04:50 – 05:30 (40 min): Moto2, FP1
05:45 a.m. – 06:30 p.m. (45 min): MotoGP, FP1
08:15 – 08:50 (35 min): Moto3, FP2
09:05 – 09:45 (40 min): Moto2, FP2
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. (60 min): MotoGP, Practice
Saturday October 28 (CEST):
03:40 – 04:10 (30 min): Moto3, FP3
04:25 – 04:55 (30 min): Moto2, FP3
05:10 a.m. – 05:40 p.m. (30 min): MotoGP, FP2
05:50 a.m. – 06:05 p.m. (15 min): MotoGP, Qualifying 1
06:15 a.m. – 06:30 p.m. (15 min): MotoGP, Qualifying 2
07:50 p.m. – 08:05 p.m. (15 min): Moto3, Qualifying 1
08:15 p.m. – 08:30 p.m. (15 min): Moto3, Qualifying 2
08:45 p.m. – 09:00 p.m. (15 min): Moto2, Qualifying 1
09:10 p.m. – 09:25 p.m. (15 min): Moto2, Qualifying 2
10:00 p.m.: MotoGP sprint (13 laps)
Sunday October 29 (CET):
04:40 a.m. – 04:50 a.m. (10 min): MotoGP, warm up
06:00: Moto3 – Race (19 laps)
07:15: Moto2 race (22 laps)
09:00 p.m.: MotoGP race (26 laps)
