As per tradition, the MotoGP World Championship will end with the Valencian Community Grand Prix, being held this year from November 15-17.
Stage of the race weekend, Circuit Ricardo Tormo is located just outside Valencia and is named for the first world champion rider from Valencia who died prematurely in 1998. Each lap, the MotoGP riders turn to their brakes nine times, splitting fairly evenly the amount of left and right-handed turns: there are five left-handed corners and four right-handed.
On one full lap, the MotoGP riders use their brakes for a total of 27 seconds, which is equivalent to 31% of the time needed to complete a lap.
The average peak deceleration per lap is 1.16 G, the highest of the four Spanish tracks used in MotoGP.
If the section composed of turns 4 and 5 were eliminated, this figure would definitely be higher.
Summing up all of the force applied by a rider on the brake lever from the starting line to the checkered flag, the result comes in at about 1,020 kg (2,249 lbs).
There are a good seven corners where the load reach at least 4 kg (8.8 lbs).
