MotoGP says farewell to Phillip Island without a Grand Prix

Limited visibility grounds the medical helicopter, leaving riders to wave goodbye to rain-soaked spectators on a parade lap.

Channel: MotoGP Story of October 26, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 971,619 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (90,583).

Farewell Lap & Rider Parade | 2026 Australian GP

Fabio Quartararo sits in pit lane beneath an umbrella, taking photos with fans while the rain falls. There will be riders on track at Phillip Island, but not the race they came for.

MotoGP's Australian Grand Prix was canceled because limited visibility prevented the medical helicopter from operating. The official channel's "Farewell Lap & Rider Parade | 2026 Australian GP" carries the announcement, the waiting in the garages and, eventually, a goodbye behind the safety car.

The broadcast drew nearly a million views before its first day was over, far beyond the channel's usual audience for regular videos. Its comment section was also several times busier than a typical first day, with viewers recalling races at the circuit and asking for another chance to see MotoGP there. One spectator remembers attending the Australian rounds in 1989 and 1990.

Trackside, Ducati's Davide Tardozzi puts the disappointment alongside the reason for stopping: "Ending up like that is not what we want. The weather is bad..." Safety, he explains, has to come first.

The farewell promised in the title arrives well into the broadcast. Riders pull on wet-weather gear, leave pit lane behind the safety car and circle the circuit, waving to spectators still standing in the rain.

Jack Miller's green-and-gold Australian tribute livery adds a home-country detail to the garage scenes. His farewell also gets a separate, unusually fast-starting Short, "Jack Miller's last lap around Phillip Island 🥹", whose description gives the occasion a distinctly Miller instruction: keep a wheel in the air, whichever one it happens to be.

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The numbers

The farewell broadcast drew far more views and comments than MotoGP's usual regular-video start. Separate Shorts honoring Phillip Island and Jack Miller also attracted unusually large audiences.

the video's first day

usual first day here

90,583

this video

971,619

subscribers

7,280,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

3,809,044,449

views per day

6,972,227

typical day: 2,937,428

the video

views

952,527

likes

6,284

comments

476

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

FORMULA 1

15,300,000

MotoGP

7,280,000

Monster Energy

3,640,000

Oracle Red Bull Racing

3,060,000

McLaren

2,560,000

FortNine

2,370,000

As of October 26, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.