The experiment with four sessions of practice of 45 minutes each which the MotoGP paddock tried out at Aragon was regarded as a success, after complaints from riders and teams that the three sessions of a single hour left them too little time to fix setup issues. After Aragon, Dorna and IRTA decided to return to the four-practice format for Estoril and Valencia as well.
As a result, the schedules for the last two MotoGP rounds of the year are a little different from the earlier rounds, with practice kicking off on Friday morning instead of Friday afternoon. The schedule at Estoril is further complicated by the fact that Daylight Savings Time ends in Europe on Saturday night, meaning that Europeans put their clocks back an hour at 3am on Sunday. Viewers from the US and Australia will need to take extra caution when figuring out their viewing times, as DST ends in the US a week later, on the weekend of the Valencia MotoGP Round.
For European MotoGP fans, however, nothing should change, as long as they remember to put their clocks back. The MotoGP race will take place at 2pm CET as always, which is 1pm local time and GMT. To compensate for the early start, the 125cc race has been moved until after MotoGP, the 125cc race due to start at 2:30pm local time, or 3:30pm CET.
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