Earlier yesterday we got the update on the cancellation of Italian GP. However, with that news coming in, the organisers have now announced the revised 2020 MotoGP calendar. For now, the new calendar consists of 13 Europen tracks with Spain kicking off the season with two race weekends.
2020 MotoGP Calendar
FIM says the 2020 season will not finish later than 13th December and will comprise a maximum of 17 events (Including Grand Prix of Qatar). This means, there will be four races happening outside of Europe between November 22nd and December 13th. As for these events, FIM says they would announce the updates before the end of July (31st July).
“It has been hard work from our side and from the side of the promoters, finally we obtained these possibilities. Once we had the protocol approved then we are able to propose this calendar. In principle, we have some circuits where we will repeat races one week after another because this is easy for movement and to maintain the protocol, although there are others where we will have just one race. We thought when we ran into the problem of the pandemic, we realised we can do 13 races and then if it’s possible to go outside Europe it will be interesting.”
“The races outside Europe need to be confirmed before the end of July, then also our agreement with the manufacturers and with the teams is to finish the Championship no later than the 13th of December, that means we need to decide which of the races to do if all of them are possible, and we will decide which races we will have outside Europe. This is something we will put in the calendar as a proposal and we will decide on it no later than the end of July.”
Source: MotoGP