The MotoGP Kazakhstan Grand Prix won’t happen and a second spherical shall be held in Qatar as a substitute, Motorsport.com understands. The race on the Sokol circuit has been unsure from the second it entered the calendar.
Initially, the occasion was resulting from debut final 12 months, however its cancellation was introduced not lengthy into the season as work on the ability, simply outdoors the city of Almati, was not on schedule.
The 2024 occasion was scheduled for 14-16 July, however needed to be postponed resulting from excessive flooding within the area this 12 months.
At the moment it was determined that the occasion could be positioned within the hole left by the Indian Grand Prix, on the weekend of 20-22 September, with the race on the Buddh Worldwide Circuit cancelled after the native promoter failed to fulfill its commitments.
Nevertheless, Motorsport.com can reveal that Kazakhstan won’t be making its MotoGP debut this time round both, as a result of lack of ensures provided by the native organisers.
That is regardless of Dorna’s efforts in current months, during which it has usually despatched contingents to hurry up all of the work that was nonetheless pending.
On this respect, the truth that the circuit is positioned in a really distant space with out a lot infrastructure has not helped.
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That is the third 2024 race to be cancelled after India and Argentina, although the whole variety of rounds will stay at 20.
Dorna, along with the opposite gamers who handle the occasion, have opted for a second go to to Qatar, an occasion which opened this 12 months’s calendar.
This would be the second time in MotoGP historical past that Qatar will characteristic twice on the identical calendar.
In 2021, as a result of COVID pandemic, MotoGP opened the season with back-to-back occasions at Losail – the Qatar GP and the Doha GP.
Numerous circuits hosted races twice in 2020 and 2021 as a result of COVID pandemic.
That second 2024 race on the Losail circuit would be the first of a busy Asian tour, which can start on the outskirts of Doha on 22 September, earlier than the collection strikes to Indonesia (29 September) and the next week Japan (6 October), and which can shut with one other hat-trick in Australia (20 October), Thailand (27 October) and Malaysia (3 November).
The season will shut two weeks later in Valencia on the weekend of 15-17 November.
