This is big news: it looks like Freeview will be getting a full serving of MotoGP action this weekend from the French Grand Prix.

If you’ve not been keeping up, it’s been a bit of a hot topic around these parts.

The problem stems from late last year, when one of the BBC Red Button streams was dropped from Freeview to make way for Freeview HD. Qualifying, and the 125cc and Moto2 races are all shown on the Red Button. That’s fine for viewers on Sky or Virgin, where there’s plenty of room for Red Button streams, but so far this season there’s always been something else deemed more important, which has bumped non-race MotoGP coverage off Freeview’s single stream. We’re talking Masters Golf and Badminton Horse Trials.

But not so this weekend! According to the BBC Sport Red Button schedule, we’ll have qualifying on Saturday from 11.50am to 3.00pm, and the support races on Sunday from 9.50am to 12.05pm. The only thing Freeview will miss out on is half an hour of post-race coverage. Cross referencing that with the BBC Press Red Blog schedule, it looks plausible.

All of which means I’ll finally be able to watch a Moto2 race in proper full definition on the actual telly, rather than the slightly ropey live streaming on the BBC Sport website, or the iPlayer afterwards. Joy!