{"id":19801,"date":"2026-05-26T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/19801\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:42:09","slug":"motogp-italian-grand-prix-full-weekend-schedule-start-times-where-to-watch-tv-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/19801\/","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP Italian Grand Prix Full Weekend Schedule: Start times, where to watch, TV channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MotoGP returns to the iconic Mugello circuit in Tuscany, Italy and the championship battle is heating up between Aprilia teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/marco-bezzecchi\" title=\"Marco Bezzecchi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/jorge-martin\" title=\"Jorge Martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Martin<\/a>.VR46&#8217;s Fabio Di Giannantonio, who is currently enjoying his most successful spell in the premier class, will be one of the pre-race favourites, particularly given how well Ducati have gone here at their home circuit in recent years. KTM&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/pedro-acosta\" title=\"Pedro Acosta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Acosta<\/a> may also be in the mix after showing that he can hang with the frontrunners in Barcelona.Following the disastrous Catalan Grand Prix two weeks ago, both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/motogp\/alex-marquez-and-johann-zarco-share-injury-updates-after-shocking-catalan-gp-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco will continue their recovery<\/a> off-track. Meanwhile reigning champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/marc-marquez\" title=\"Marc Marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a> is aiming to return for Mugello but his appearance has yet to be confirmed. It is also unclear whether LCR Honda and Gresini have managed to find replacement riders in time for the event.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mugello-circuit-motogp-italy-6a157e9393a8d.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"Photo: Red Bull Content Pool\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Red Bull Content Pool<\/p>\n<p>The historic circuit, which has existed in one form or another since 1955, marks a home race for several riders on the MotoGP grid including Bezzecchi, Di Giannantonio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/francesco-bagnaia\" title=\"Francesco Bagnaia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francesco Bagnaia<\/a>, Luca Marini, Enea Bastianini and Franco Morbidelli.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Mugello Circuit gave us one of the best races of the season as Bagnaia and the Marquez brothers battled for the win. This time around it looks to be a different story but still one that is equally interesting and unpredictable ahead of the coming weekend.<\/p>\n<p>MotoGP Italian Grand Prix Mugello Full ScheduleDate\/SessionStart Time (GMT)Start Time (Local)Friday 8 MayFP109:45-10:3010:45-11:30Timed Practice14:00-15:0015:00-16:00Saturday 9 MayFP209:10-09:4010:10-10:40Qualifying 1 &amp; 209:50-10:3010:50-11:30Sprint Race14:0015:00Sunday 10 MayMoto3 Race10:0011:00Moto2 Race11:1512:15MotoGP Race13:0014:00Where to watch the Italian Grand Prix:<\/p>\n<p>United Kingdom &amp; Ireland:<\/p>\n<p>TNT SportsDiscovery+Quest (Free-to-Air)Prime Video<\/p>\n<p>United States:<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports\u00a0The MotoGP Channel (FAST)Prime Video<\/p>\n<p>Global &amp; Other Regions:<\/p>\n<p>Australia:\u00a0FOX SportsItaly:\u00a0Sky SportGermany:\u00a0Sky SportSpain: DAZNNetherlands:\u00a0Ziggo SportIndia:\u00a0Eurosport IndiaSouth Africa:\u00a0SuperSportDo you follow MotoGP on social media? Then follow GPblog now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gpblognl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gpblog_nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gpblog_nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TikTok<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/motogp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stay up to date with the latest MotoGP news<\/a>.<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MotoGP returns to the iconic Mugello circuit in Tuscany, Italy and the championship battle is heating up between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14365,4516,14363,5,14366,14364,14367,4889,14368],"class_list":["post-19801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-alex-marquez","tag-francesco-bagnaia","tag-italian-grand-prix","tag-italy","tag-jorge-martin","tag-marc-marquez","tag-marco-bezzecchi","tag-motogp","tag-pedro-acosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}