{"id":672970,"date":"2026-05-15T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672970\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:04:09","slug":"motogp-catalunya-live-practice-updates-as-rain-threatens-crucial-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672970\/","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP Catalunya LIVE: Practice updates as rain threatens crucial session"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEY MOMENTSPractice for MotoGP Catalunya is underwayAlex Marquez leads FP1Jorge Martin looks in pain after crash at Turn 12<\/p>\n

The sixth round of the 2026 MotoGP season takes place at the Catalan Grand Prix in Barcelona.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> leads the championship coming to the Barcelona round of the campaign, though only by a single point, after team-mate Jorge Martin<\/a> grabbed his first grand prix victory in France last weekend.<\/p>\n

With Aprilia continuing to look a cut above the rest of the field, the battle between the Aprilia duo is fast shaping up to be the championship fight this season.<\/p>\n

Ducati will be hoping Alex Marquez can repeat his Barcelona heroics from 12 months ago in the same way he did a few weeks prior at Jerez, following a tough French Grand Prix for the brand.<\/p>\n

It will also compete in Barcelona without Marc Marquez, who underwent double surgery on his right foot and right shoulder on Sunday, following a heavy crash in the sprint at Le Mans.<\/p>\n

Ducati will not replace Marc Marquez in Barcelona<\/a>, while his participation in the upcoming Italian Grand Prix remains uncertain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tech3 have also announced that Maverick Vinales will return to action this weekend in Barcelona, having been out since the US Grand Prix due to a shoulder injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2026 Catalan MotoGP: Friday schedule<\/p>\n

FP1 – 9:45am BST – 10:30am BST<\/p>\n

Practice – 2pm BST – 3pm BST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEY MOMENTSPractice for MotoGP Catalunya is underwayAlex Marquez leads FP1Jorge Martin looks in pain after crash at Turn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-672970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}