Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP Heads to Austin for Round 3 of the Championship
Straight from Brazil, Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP arrives in Austin, Texas, for Round 3 of the 2026 MotoGP World Championship, ready to continue its development work at the demanding Circuit of the Americas.
Austin (Texas, USA), 25th March 2026
With no break between rounds, Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP heads directly from Brazil to Austin, Texas, for the third round of the 2026 MotoGP World Championship. The back-to-back schedule keeps the team fully immersed in race mode, maintaining focus and continuity as work on the Yamaha YZR-M1 continues.
The Circuit of the Americas, widely known as COTA, is one of the most distinctive and technically demanding tracks on the calendar. Its combination of tight sequences, elevation changes and long straights presents a unique challenge for both riders and engineers, requiring a well-balanced package and precise set-up.
Jack Miller arrives in Austin with positive memories, having secured a strong fifth-place finish here last season in only his third race weekend with Yamaha. The Australian will look to build on that experience and apply it to the current project as the team continues its progression.
For Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, it will be another important step in his MotoGP learning journey. Although he has previous experience at COTA from earlier in his career, including appearances in the Red Bull Rookies Cup, racing at the circuit on a MotoGP machine presents a completely different challenge, offering further opportunities to adapt and grow throughout the weekend.
GINO BORSOI Team Director, Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP
We’re all happy to be back at COTA — it’s a beautiful but very demanding track. Of course, we hope to repeat last year’s result. Jack enjoys racing here and, considering the commitment he’s showing to this project, he truly deserves a strong performance like the one he achieved last season.
For Toprak, it will be another important step in his learning process, as he doesn’t have much experience at this circuit. It will be our responsibility as a team to support him in finding the right set-up. In Brazil, we believe we identified a first positive direction that helped him be more aggressive on corner entry and more confident in moving the bike, and we’re aiming to continue working along that line. Hopefully, we can start to see the first concrete results of this progress already this weekend.
JACK MILLER Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP Rider
I really like this track, even though it’s not traditionally the most favourable one for Yamaha. Still, I’ve always felt good riding here. Looking back to last year, we had a very strong result — I felt competitive from the start and got a great launch in the race, which allowed me to run with the front group.
It was a tough battle all race long, especially on the straights where I was losing a bit, but I was able to make it back under braking and stay in the fight. It would be great to put ourselves in that position again this weekend, to battle until the end and create some more good memories here.
TOPRAK RAZGATLIOGLU Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP rider
It’s another important weekend for me because everything is still new in MotoGP, and especially here at COTA. I have some experience from the Rookies Cup, but riding here with a MotoGP bike is a completely different challenge.
We are continuing to work step by step, trying to understand the bike better and improve my feeling, especially on tracks like this that are quite demanding. In Brazil we found some positive direction, particularly on corner entry, and I want to build on that and keep improving. My goal is to keep progressing, session by session, and do my best for the team.
Notes
The Grand Prix of the United States is held in the GMT-5 time zone. FP1 will take place on Friday from 10:45-11:30 local track time and Practice from 15:00-16:00. On Saturday, FP2 will start at 10:10 followed rigth after by Q1 and Q2 and the Sprint Race at 15:00. On Sunday*, the Race starts at 15:00.
*In Europe, Day Light Saving Time starts on 29 March at 2:00am (moving the clock forward to 03:00am). The difference between the Central Europe Time (CET) zone and the time in Austin, Texas will increase from 6 hours on the Friday and Saturday to 7 hours on the Sunday.
Team Director, Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP
For Toprak, it will be another important step in his learning process, as he doesn’t have much experience at this circuit. It will be our responsibility as a team to support him in finding the right set-up. In Brazil, we believe we identified a first positive direction that helped him be more aggressive on corner entry and more confident in moving the bike, and we’re aiming to continue working along that line. Hopefully, we can start to see the first concrete results of this progress already this weekend.