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22 Races For MotoGP In 2024 - Kazahstan Back On, Hungary On Reserve List, 4 Races In Spain

By David Emmett | Wed, 27/09/2023 - 09:17

The 2024 MotoGP calendar is back up to the agreed maximum of 22 races. Kazakhstan is back on the calendar for next year, and all four Spanish circuits are on the calendar alongside Portimão. After the successful Indian round of MotoGP, Buddh International Circuit stays on the calendar. But apart from that, the calendar is pretty conventional.

The season kicks off in Qatar on March 10th, a date that was published earlier. Two weeks later, the MotoGP circus makes a quick stop off in Portimão before heading to the Americas, with Argentina happening on April 7th, and Austin a week later.

After a two-week break, MotoGP resumes its usual European round, going from Jerez to Le Mans to Barcelona and then Mugello. Kazakhstan fits in between Mugello and Assen, with a weekend off either side of the track situated north west of Almaty. Then Assen in its traditional slot of the last weekend in June, and the Sachsenring a week later.

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How To Build A MotoGP Calendar, Part 2: Carlos Ezpeleta On Which Races Go Where, The Problems Of Transport, And Publishing The Calendar

By David Emmett | Tue, 25/07/2023 - 09:20

In the first part of this interview with Carlos Ezpeleta, Dorna's Chief Sporting Officer explained the political challenges of putting together a calendar for MotoGP. In the second half of our conversation, Ezpeleta discusses the contractual and logistical constraints on the MotoGP calendar. He gives us a peek into the 2024 calendar, and talks about balancing the input from the teams against the requests from the circuits.

Q: Coming to logistics, which is one of the most interesting factors. Races in Europe can only be held at a certain time. So for example, even though Finland was canceled, you could only race at the KymiRing in the summer. How do you slot all of that together? You’ve also got not just weather but also travel.

Carlos Ezpeleta: Yes. Let’s say that we know what events are going to be in the calendar for the year that we’re designing the calendar for. You start to sort of make a rough draft of that. Number one is your contractual obligations, which for example could be Qatar starting the calendar as the first race, and Valencia currently ending it. So, that’s pretty clear.

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How To Build A MotoGP Calendar, Part 1: Carlos Ezpeleta On Balancing Politics, Logistics, And The Weather

By David Emmett | Mon, 24/07/2023 - 13:45

There is nothing quite as frustrating as the MotoGP calendar, to those inside the sport as well as those outside. Each time MotoGP's schedule is published, it is met with a mixture of excitement about the coming year, and irritation about the inevitable back-to-back races, gaps, clashes, and choices of venue. Fans are thrilled to see MotoGP at their favorite track, or disappointed that the series is going back to their least favorite track. And different fans will have diametrically opposite views of which tracks are best, and which should be ditched.

That is hardly surprising. You can't keep everybody happy, not least because putting together a calendar of 20+ events is an incredibly complex task. There are so many different factors to balance, many of which people outside the process are not even aware of. There's the logistics of getting from one circuit to another, weather, track availability, medical facilities.

You want to avoid clashes with F1 – something which gets harder as the F1 calendar expands – and try not to schedule races in the same country too close together. And there are only a limited number of circuits which are safe enough to hold a MotoGP race. Adding new circuits can be a process of years, and slotting them in means making space elsewhere.

Juggling act

In short, it is a complicated process fraught with a million headaches. The devil is indeed in the detail, and the details run deeper than most people realize.

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Joan Mir On Racing For Honda, Fixing MotoGP, And Dealing With Crashes: "You Remember Every Crash"

By David Emmett | Tue, 04/07/2023 - 14:16

Interviews are precarious things. A hundred things can happen between arranging the interview, actually speaking to the person you want to interview, and then publishing it. Sometimes you get lucky, and the rider you want to speak to wins a race the week before your scheduled appointment. Sometimes they break a leg and are absent at the race you had arranged to speak to them. And sometimes something major happens between the time you interview someone and the publication date.

When I arranged to speak to Joan Mir, I got lucky. The 2020 MotoGP world champion arrived at Mugello fit, healthy, and in an open and talkative mood. That was not a given, after the miserable weekend he had at Le Mans, finishing down in 14th in the sprint race and crashing out of the Sunday grand prix.

Mir spoke openly about the unexpected difficulties he had faced since joining the Repsol Honda team, and the low point which Honda finds itself in. He spoke about how he handles such difficulties mentally, how he tries to put bad experiences behind him and where he finds the mental strength to keep grinding away, trying to make progress. And he spoke about the problems facing MotoGP, how the current state of technology has taken control away from the riders and made the bike a much, much bigger part of the overall performance package.

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Mugello MotoGP Sunday Subscriber Notes: The Winner's Secret Weapon, The Crowds Return, And Morbidelli's Mixed Message

By David Emmett | Sun, 11/06/2023 - 23:48

With three races on three consecutive weekends, MotoGP writers such as myself don't get much time to mull over events. As soon as one MotoGP round finishes, we are already looking ahead to the next. So the Sunday subscriber notes will be necessarily brief, though I hope to add a few more observations in the next day or so.

But a weekend like Mugello cannot pass without mention. In the end, it turned out to be a glorious Sunday, the sun blazing down and igniting the crowds, which were larger than we had expected and feared. The sun also meant track temperatures were higher than Saturday, when clouds had spared the asphalt the scorching Tuscan sun. That meant data collected from Saturday's sprint race was suddenly less useful than hoped for, confounding tire choice and forcing teams to choose between playing it safe with the medium, and risking the soft, which worked better for many riders. Like all gambles, it paid off for some, and not for others.

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2023 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 6, Mugello, Italy

By Zara Daniela | Sun, 11/06/2023 - 13:24

MotoGP standings after Mugello:

6
2023
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2023 Mugello MotoGP Race Result: Enjoying The Home Comforts 

By Zara Daniela | Sun, 11/06/2023 - 13:16

Results and summary of the MotoGP race at Mugello:

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2023 Moto2 Championship Standings After Round 6, Mugello, Italy

By David Emmett | Sun, 11/06/2023 - 11:40

Moto2 standings after Mugello:

6
2023
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2023 Mugello Moto2 Race Result: A Master At Work    

By Zara Daniela | Sun, 11/06/2023 - 11:25

Results and summary of the Moto2 race at Mugello: 

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2023 Moto3 Championship Standings After Round 6, Mugello, Italy

By David Emmett | Sun, 11/06/2023 - 10:25

Moto3 standings after Mugello:

6
2023
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