How to Watch MotoGP & the Grand Tours in 2026

Written by Euroskara Support Desk · Published 12 October 2026

Two of the most demanding sports to follow on television share the same calendar. MotoGP stages its Grands Prix across the year, while cycling’s three Grand Tours — Italy in the spring, France at the height of summer, Spain into the early autumn — each run for three gruelling weeks. Both reward the viewer who can settle in for a long session, and both are famously scattered across different broadcasters depending on where you live. This guide looks at how each season is shaped and how a single Euroskara subscription keeps the bikes and the bunch in one place.

Two very different seasons, one subscription

It is worth saying at the outset why these sports sit together so naturally for a viewer. Neither is a quick fixture you dip into for ninety minutes. A MotoGP weekend builds across practice, qualifying and the race, often with the smaller classes on the same bill; a Grand Tour stage can last the best part of an afternoon, day after day, for three weeks. If you follow either seriously, you want dependable coverage over long stretches — not a feed that drops out halfway up a mountain or on the final lap.

That is where an aggregated line-up earns its keep. Instead of a motorsport package here and a cycling subscription there, the channels that carry both are grouped together, and our sports hub shows how they sit beside the football and Formula 1 that fill the rest of the year. If four wheels are more your thing as well, the companion guide to Formula 1 in Europe covers the Grand Prix calendar in the same way.

MotoGP in 2026: the weekend and the channels

A MotoGP round is a weekend-long affair. Friday brings practice, Saturday adds qualifying and, in the current format, a Saturday sprint race, before the main Grand Prix on Sunday — and that is before you count the Moto2 and Moto3 support races that many fans treat as essential viewing. Miss the Friday and Saturday running and you lose the context for who is quick and who is struggling.

On who shows it: Euroskara does not claim any single broadcaster’s rights, and coverage of MotoGP varies from nation to nation. What the service does is include, country by country, the channels on which the championship is televised — the dedicated motorsport feeds in some markets, broader sports channels in others. Browse the channel list and you will see those feeds grouped by country, so a race you would struggle to find on a single home package is usually sitting there waiting.

The Grand Tours: the Giro, the Tour and the Vuelta

Cycling’s three-week races are a different kind of television entirely. The Giro d’Italia opens the sequence in May, the Tour de France dominates July, and the Vuelta a España closes it out across late summer into autumn. Each is a daily serial: flat sprint stages, brutal mountain days in the Alps, Dolomites or Pyrenees, and the time trials that often settle the overall standings. Coverage can stretch to four or five hours on the biggest mountain stages, and the drama frequently arrives only in the final hour.

As with the bikes, the broadcasters that carry these races differ by country, and some show every stage from the neutral start while others join for the closing kilometres. The same principle applies: the channels that televise the Giro, the Tour and the Vuelta in each nation are part of what Euroskara carries, so you can follow a full three weeks without hunting for a new subscription when the race crosses a border.

This border-crossing nature is exactly why so many Grand Tour fans end up frustrated with a single national package. The Tour de France alone rolls through several countries most summers, and the commentary and highlights you prefer may live on a broadcaster you cannot normally reach. An aggregated line-up sidesteps that: you choose the feed you like for each race, whether that is the host nation’s coverage for the local colour or an international feed for the tactics, and both are waiting in the same guide. The best way to feel the difference is to start the free trial during a stage and flick between a couple of feeds yourself.

Long days of racing: what to look for in a plan

Because both seasons spread across months, the length of subscription that suits you depends on your appetite. A single month at €15 on one screen covers a specific race or Grand Tour; three months at €29 comfortably spans a block such as the Giro-through-Tour window. Devoted followers who want the whole lot — every MotoGP round and all three Grand Tours — will find the longer terms far better value, with six months at €45 and twelve at €69 on one screen, roughly €5.75 a month over the year. Watching a mountain stage in one room while the household uses another screen? The two, three and five-device plans (€119, €159 and €239 for a year) cover that. Full details are set out in euros on the pricing page.

No tier limits the sport you can reach: the full 25,000+ channels and 120,000+ on-demand titles come with every plan, so your only real choices are duration and the number of simultaneous screens.

Kit and set-up for race day

For sessions this long, a stable picture matters more than anything. Getting Euroskara running takes most people under a quarter of an hour. Pick your hardware — a streaming stick in the back of the telly, an Android box, a tablet to prop beside the sofa for a mountain stage, or a laptop — then install a player and sign in. On Android, TiviMate is a popular pick for its guide; on iPhone and iPad the free Smarters Player Lite does the job, with iPlayTV as another Apple-only option. For Smart IPTV on a Samsung or LG television, confirm the set is new enough: Samsung Tizen 6.5 or later, LG webOS 3.0 or later.

During a long broadcast, a wired connection to the box holds up better than Wi-Fi, and should a 4K feed strain on a busy afternoon you can switch to the HD version of the channel to ease the load. The sensible way to test all this is a trial run during an ordinary race weekend before the big one. If you cannot see which channel is carrying a stage or a session, a quick WhatsApp message to the team will sort it. Every plan is backed by the 24-hour free trial and a 7-day money-back guarantee.

Frequently asked questions

Can I watch MotoGP practice and the sprint, not only the Sunday race?

In most cases, yes. Euroskara carries the motorsport channels that show MotoGP across Europe, and many of them broadcast the full weekend — practice, qualifying and the Saturday sprint as well as the Grand Prix, with the Moto2 and Moto3 races where they are shown. Where one feed skips a session, another country’s channel often has it.

Will I get every stage of the Tour de France and the other Grand Tours?

Generally, yes. The channels that televise the Giro, the Tour de France and the Vuelta in each country are part of the line-up, and several broadcast each stage in full rather than only the finish. Because feeds from more than one country are available, a stage shown somewhere in Europe is usually within reach.

Is one subscription really enough for both sports?

Yes. There is no separate motorsport or cycling add-on — the same Euroskara package that carries MotoGP also includes the channels showing the Grand Tours, so bikes and bicycles live in the same programme guide. That is the whole advantage of an aggregated line-up over buying each sport on its own.

How much broadband do I need for a long mountain stage?

A reliable connection of around 25 Mbps or more handles a 4K feed well, while HD asks for considerably less. For a broadcast running several hours, a wired link to your device is the steadier choice, and dropping to an HD channel is an easy fix if your line is busy or modest.

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