talkSPORT has struck a new radio deal to carry live coverage of six MotoGP races this summer, beginning this Sunday at Mugello on talkSPORT2. The broadcasts will use the same commentary and punditry as TNT Sports, giving UK listeners a new live audio route into the championship at the exact moment the season moves into a packed run of races.
For fans searching for talksport coverage now, the first answer is simple: the opener is set for Mugello, with Neil Hodgson and Gavin Emmett inside the commentary box and Suzi Perry, Michael Laverty and Sylvain Guintoli offering analysis. Liam Fisher said the broadcaster was delighted to bring MotoGP to the talkSPORT audience for a massive summer of motorsport, while Alex Arroyo said the two sides were beginning a new partnership and described the UK as a key market for the series. MotoGP’s push into a bigger British audience arrives as talkSPORT2’s weekly listeners rose 19.3% year on year to 549,000 in the first quarter of 2026, with the main talkSPORT channel at 3.3 million weekly listeners.
The timing matters because MotoGP is trying to turn interest into habit, and live radio gives the sport another route into homes, cars and workplaces beyond television. talkSPORT’s wider summer slate already includes every game of the FIFA World Cup and The Open, so MotoGP is being added to a schedule built for major-event audiences rather than buried as a niche extra.
That growth story has a harder edge, though. The British Grand Prix at Silverstone drew 40,518 fans on race day last season, with 99,328 over the full weekend, a reminder that the sport’s British profile still has room to widen even as its broadcasters talk up momentum. If the radio partnership works, the next test is whether listeners who tune in at Mugello stay with the six-race run and turn a summer experiment into a regular habit.
The first broadcast this Sunday is the only confirmed start point so far, and that leaves one useful gap: which five races will follow Mugello on talkSPORT2. For now, the deal gives MotoGP a fresh live platform in the UK, and it gives talkSPORT a summer sports property with enough speed to hold attention.
