Insightful details about braking demands from the Circuito de Jerez on MotoGP machinery, brought to you by the company supplying all the bikes on the grid with brakes.
Begin press release:

With the three non-European rounds out of the way, MotoGP heads to Spain for the fourth round of the 2018 season, scheduled to take place at Circuito de Jerez, May 4-6. Opened December 8, 1985, this track has hosted the premier class since 1987.
In 1992 it became the first track in the Championship to replace the hay bales with air fences. The 2.748-mile track alternates between slow, fast and very fast corners. The 13 turns (eight right-handers and five left-handers) represent 31 percent of the total length and provide numerous places for passing.

The significant changes in slope demand a bike that handles well and that is well balanced, in addition to being stable in braking. Once again, this year 100 percent of the bikes participating in the MotoGP championship are equipped with Brembo brakes and Brembo’s engineers have assigned a difficulty index for the brakes to each circuit on the calendar.

According to the Brembo engineers who assist all the MotoGP riders, the Circuito de Jerez is the most demanding track on brakes in the first third of the season, out of the first six Grand Prix races, on a scale of 1 to 5, it earned a four on the difficulty index, the same score as Aragon, Buriram and Brno.
The demand on the brakes during the GP
On every lap, the riders will have to use...