MotoGP this weekend: race times in Australia and how to watch

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MotoGP is at Lusail in Qatar this weekend, 6-8 November, and the world championship could be decided there. The Qatar Grand Prix is a night race at 7pm local time on Sunday, which is 3am on Monday 9 November in Sydney and Melbourne (AEDT), and the Saturday sprint is at 3am on Sunday. Marc Márquez leads Jorge Martin by 44 points and has a match point.

Every session is live on Kayo and on Foxtel's Fox Sports channels. We found no announced free-to-air broadcaster for 2026, so you need Kayo or Foxtel. This page is the viewing guide for Qatar; the season, the 2027 calendar and the rights are in our MotoGP hub.

Qatar Grand Prix start time in Australia

The Grand Prix is on Sunday 8 November at 7pm in Qatar (UTC+3, with no daylight saving). These are the start times in every Australian state and territory.

Qatar MotoGP schedule in Australian time

MotoGP publishes the weekend in Lusail time (UTC+3). We converted every session to AEDT, which is Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart, by adding 8 hours. Brisbane is 7 hours ahead of Qatar, Adelaide 7.5 hours, Darwin 6.5 hours and Perth 5 hours, so take one hour or more off the AEDT times for those cities.

Session	Qatar (local)	Sydney and Melbourne (AEDT)
Moto3 Free Practice 1	Friday 6 Nov, 1pm	Friday 6 Nov, 9pm
Moto2 Free Practice 1	Friday 6 Nov, 1:50pm	Friday 6 Nov, 9:50pm
MotoGP Free Practice 1	Friday 6 Nov, 2:45pm	Friday 6 Nov, 10:45pm
Moto3 Practice	Friday 6 Nov, 5:15pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 1:15am
Moto2 Practice	Friday 6 Nov, 6:05pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 2:05am
MotoGP Practice	Friday 6 Nov, 7pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 3am
Moto3 session	Saturday 7 Nov, 12:30pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 8:30pm
Moto2 Free Practice 2	Saturday 7 Nov, 1:15pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 9:15pm
MotoGP Free Practice 2	Saturday 7 Nov, 2pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 10pm
MotoGP Qualifying	Saturday 7 Nov, 2:40pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 10:40pm
Moto3 Qualifying	Saturday 7 Nov, 4:50pm	Sunday 8 Nov, 12:50am
Moto2 Qualifying	Saturday 7 Nov, 5:45pm	Sunday 8 Nov, 1:45am
MotoGP Tissot Sprint	Saturday 7 Nov, 7pm	Sunday 8 Nov, 3am
MotoGP Warm Up	Sunday 8 Nov, 2:40pm	Sunday 8 Nov, 10:40pm
Moto3 Race (16 laps)	Sunday 8 Nov, 4pm	Monday 9 Nov, midnight
Moto2 Race (18 laps)	Sunday 8 Nov, 5:15pm	Monday 9 Nov, 1:15am
MotoGP Qatar Airways Grand Prix of Qatar (22 laps)	Sunday 8 Nov, 7pm	Monday 9 Nov, 3am
After the Flag	Sunday 8 Nov, 8:15pm	Monday 9 Nov, 4:15am

The local times are from MotoGP.com's Qatar time schedule published on 4 November 2026. The Australian times are our conversion by time-zone arithmetic. Moto2 and Moto3 are the support classes; the Kayo announcement we have seen names MotoGP sessions only, so confirm Moto2 and Moto3 in Kayo's guide.

What is at stake in Qatar

MotoGP.com calls Qatar a match point for Márquez. He wins the championship on Sunday if he outscores Martin by 30 points and Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi by 8 across the weekend, and finishes at least fifth in Saturday's sprint. If he cannot, the fight goes to Portugal on 20-22 November and the Valencia finale on 27-29 November. Martin, the Aprilia rider who missed the Malaysian Grand Prix with a broken wrist, needs a medical check on Thursday to ride. Márquez won at Sepang on 1 November and AFP reported him 44 points clear of Martin.

How to watch MotoGP live in Australia

• Kayo: live, every MotoGP qualifying session, practice session and race, ad-break free. Kayo and Foxtel's multi-year extension, announced on 3 September 2026, runs from 2027, and the 2026 coverage is on the same service.
• Foxtel: the same coverage on the Fox Sports channels, and Foxtel Group says Foxtel subscribers can watch Kayo's coverage as well.
• Free to air: not confirmed. MotoGP's announcement of the extension describes Kayo and Foxtel as the place for live, ad-break-free racing in Australia. Earlier editions of this guide listed Network 10 coverage of the Australian round, which we could not confirm for 2026.

Kayo's replays, No Spoilers setting and short race summaries (see Kayo Minis) are the way to catch up if you sleep through the 3am start. To see all of Kayo's options read our Kayo guide and what Kayo costs.

MotoGP time differences for the last three rounds

Round	Weekend	Circuit time zone	Sydney is ahead of the circuit by
Qatar	6-8 November	UTC+3	8 hours (AEDT)
Portugal	20-22 November	UTC (Portugal is on UTC in winter)	11 hours (AEDT)
Valencia	27-29 November	UTC+1 (Central European Time)	10 hours (AEDT)

We will add the Portugal and Valencia schedules when MotoGP publishes them. To work out a start time, add the gap in the last column to the local start time.

The Australian Grand Prix moves to Adelaide

Phillip Island's last MotoGP, on 23-25 October, lost its Sunday race to the weather after Márquez won the Saturday sprint, and the Australian Grand Prix moves to a new Adelaide street circuit on 12-14 November 2027, with Red Bull as title sponsor. The details, and the full 22-round 2027 calendar, are on the MotoGP hub.

More motorsport this weekend

• Formula 1: the São Paulo Grand Prix (4am Monday AEDT)
• V8 Supercars: the Sandown 500
• Sports streaming in Australia

What changed on this page

This page used to list the 2025 calendar with the Australian round on 17-19 October. It now covers the current weekend. Local session times come from MotoGP.com, and the Australian times are converted by us. We rewrite it each race week.