Grand prix commission Archives

New Rules for the MotoGP 2009 season

25 April, 2020

Cost-cutting measures for the 2009 season to help the MotoGP world championship contain the global economic crisis and slash rising costs were finalised today and a number of rule changes have been made with immediate affect, ahead of the 2009…

GP practice sessions get tweaked for the second time

16 April, 2020

The Grand Prix Commission must be slightly bored this off season, because they’ve again tweaked the 2011 MotoGP, Moto2 and 125cc practice schedule, confirming the Friday morning sessions, that everyone wanted back and that they announced last December.They’ve however have…

MotoGP set to ban private testing again

12 April, 2020

Before the start of the 2012 season the GP Commission decided to change the testing rules (which were initially put into place as a cost saving measure) - in regards to private testing and that it was “agreed that with…

GP Commission officially scraps Rookie Rule and adds minor tweaks for 2013

4 April, 2020

The proposed cost cutting rule changes (control ECU, rev limit ect) were supposed to epic and define the future of MotoGP racing in order to dumb down the prototypes and level them with the slower CRTs, but instead of a…

MotoGP – Back to 1 Hour Sessions

23 March, 2020

Today at Motegi, the MSMA and Grand Prix Commission will be holding another meeting to discuss several adjustments to the new 2009 rules and the first to be changed will be the 45 minute free practice format. The new format…

MotoGP to Return to Four Practice Sessions

18 March, 2020

MotoGP has seen one too many crashes during this year’s Saturday morning sessions (Silverstone saw four crashes) so the Grand Prix Commission has decided to make amends by reinstating Friday morning practice, starting this season.Friday morning practice sessions were dropped…