Like System 1, MotoGP won’t escape modifications to the 2021 calendar. Tuesday afternoon it was introduced that the pre-season take a look at on the Sepang circuit can’t happen. The Malaysian authorities has declared a state of emergency.

For a very long time it appeared that the pre-season assessments may go forward as deliberate. The observe bosses, all of the organisers concerned and the Malaysian authorities had initially agreed that the February occasion may go forward underneath strict circumstances, however that the variety of infections would rise so shortly was not anticipated.

The primary take a look at week (of three days) has due to this fact been cancelled, which implies that just one week stays. From 10 to 12 March, the groups will take a look at in Qatar. Two weeks later the season will begin on the Losail Worldwide Circuit.
Nonetheless, it stays to be seen whether or not all of that may go forward. In a press release, MotoGP stated: “Any additional updates or modifications shall be offered as quickly as potential.” Hearsay has it that the April races in America and Argentina shall be cancelled in any case, and that the season will even begin in Europe because it did in 2020.