The Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team are excited to start Round 6 of the 2024 MotoGP World Championship. As the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya shares the title sponsor with the Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team and it's also Álex Rins' home race weekend, the crew and riders are all the more eager to put on a show.

Fabio Quartararo ranks 12th in the championship standings and aims to up the ante in Barcelona. A new and promising set-up in Le Mans, France, a fortnight ago gives him high hopes for the coming race weekend at Montmeló. Riding with the new aerodynamics package that he tried at the private Mugello test last week makes the Frenchman even more eager to start work.

El Diablo has had his fair share of success at the Catalan GP. He secured a win there in 2018 in the Moto2 class, followed it up with a second place in the premier class in 2019, and added a MotoGP win in 2020 and 2022.

Álex Rins used the private Mugello test to do a reset to find a solid base setting as well as to evaluate new items. This weekend he plans to put his findings to the test. He is keen to get in strong results in the practice and qualifying in order to improve his starting position and score points at his home GP. He looks to move up from 20th in the overall rankings.

Born in Barcelona, Rins is a local hero. He stood on the Catalan premier class rostrum in 2020 for a third-place finish, his best MotoGP result at this track. He also secured two second places in Moto2 in 2015 and 2016, and a Moto3 second place in 2013.

Work to create the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya began in 1989. Two years later the track was opened, and it soon became a crowd favourite after hosting its first MotoGP race in 1992. With an exciting 4.66km layout consisting of 14 corners (six left, eight right), the Catalan round is known to produce thrilling races.