MotorLand · Profile

The MotorLand Aragón road circuit opened on 6 September 2009 with a round of the Aragon regional championship. It lies about eight kilometres from Alcañiz, in the province of Teruel, and is part of a 350-hectare complex owned by the Government of Aragon, the Teruel Provincial Council and Alcañiz City Council. It has hosted the Aragon Grand Prix of the motorcycle World Championship since 2010 and the Superbike World Championship since 2011.

From the streets of Alcañiz to the City of Motor

Motor racing in Alcañiz predates the circuit. From 1965 the town held races on the Guadalope circuit, a street course whose first grand prix was driven by local promoter Joaquín Repollés. In 1985 an accident killed two spectators, and in the 1990s the Spanish motorsport federation tightened its requirements. National events stopped running there in 1998, and the last street grand prix took place in 2003.

To replace it, the public company Ciudad del Motor de Aragón was set up in 2001 with an initial budget of 100 million euros. The karting track opened in 2007, and in 2008 the project was renamed MotorLand Aragón.

The layout

Hermann Tilke designed the circuit together with the British practice Foster and Partners. Pedro de la Rosa served as technical and sporting consultant, and Acciona carried out the construction. The track runs anticlockwise and has 50 metres of elevation change. The FIA configuration for cars is just over 5.3 kilometres long with 18 corners. The FIM configuration for motorcycles is about 5.08 kilometres long, with 16 corners and a 975-metre straight. There is also a national layout of about 2.6 kilometres. Capacity is 129,500 spectators.

The complex also includes a 2,049-metre karting track, dirt circuits covering 34 hectares and the 21-hectare TechnoPark MotorLand. Since 2009 it has hosted the MotoStudent university competition every two years. In 2024 the track was fully resurfaced and stayed closed from April to June.

The first international series

The World Series by Renault was the first international championship to race at Alcañiz. Its arrival was announced on 26 May 2008, and the round stayed on the calendar from 2009 to 2017, in its final years as Formula V8 3.5. Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 raced there between 2009 and 2016. On 19 May 2010 the Superbike World Championship confirmed its arrival, and it made its debut in 2011. The circuit also staged the Sidecar World Championship in 2013 and 2014, and in 2012 the Vuelta a España used it for its seventh stage.

The MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix

On 18 March 2010 MotorLand was confirmed as the replacement for Hungary’s Balatonring on that year’s calendar. At the first meeting, in September 2010, Casey Stoner won the MotoGP race for Ducati, Andrea Iannone took Moto2 and Pol Espargaró won in 125cc. In March 2011 Dorna Sports signed a contract to keep the event on the calendar until at least 2016.

Stoner won again in 2011, riding a Honda. Dani Pedrosa won in 2012 and Jorge Lorenzo in 2014 and 2015, both times with Yamaha. Marc Márquez won in 2013 and then four years in a row from 2016 to 2019, all with Honda. Francesco Bagnaia won in 2021 and Enea Bastianini in 2022, both with Ducati.

Two races in 2020, none in 2023

With the calendar reshaped by the pandemic, MotorLand staged two consecutive grands prix in 2020. Álex Rins won the Aragon round with Suzuki. On 25 October Franco Morbidelli won the Teruel Grand Prix on the same track with Yamaha. That year also brought the World Touring Car Cup (WTCR), which raced at Alcañiz until 2022.

There was no Aragon Grand Prix in 2023. That year the circuit hosted the 4 Hours of Aragón, a round of the European Le Mans Series.

The return and Márquez’s wins with Ducati

The event returned to the calendar in 2024 after an agreement to stage at least three grands prix up to 2026. That year Marc Márquez won his first MotoGP race with Ducati, 1,043 days after his previous victory. He won again on 8 June 2025. On 30 August 2026 he won both the sprint and the main race, with Pedro Acosta second and Marco Bezzecchi third, for his eighth MotoGP victory at Alcañiz. Máximo Quiles won the Moto3 race the same weekend.