MotoGP – MotoGP will not go to Argentina in 2013 –

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MotoGP won’t go to Argentina in 2013

MotoGP - MotoGP will not go to Argentina in 2013 -

The MotoGP 2013 calendar will ultimately only have 18 meetings following the recent decision to cancel the Argentine Grand Prix, which was to take place on April 14, 2013 at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit..

The will ultimately only have 18 meetings following the recent decision to cancel the Argentinian Grand Prix, which was to take place on April 14, 2013 on the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit (see in particular).

The causes of this turnaround are linked to the conflict between Spain and Argentina over the desire to take control of the oil company YPF (a 57.4% subsidiary of the Spanish group Repsol) by the Argentine state. Thus, from June 20, the Spanish government officially recommended to the teams and to the pilots sponsored by Repsol (the title sponsor of the Honda-HRC team, in particular) "not to travel to Argentina for security reasons".

Spain withdrew its recommendations on November 20, but the deadline for submitting the 2013 calendar to the FIM being two days passed, Dorna (the GP organizer) was unable to return to the Argentinian GP in the race. 2013 programming.

"Dorna Sports, however, undertakes to include the Grand Prix of the Argentine Republic in the 2014 calendar and for the following years, according to the results of the homologation of the circuit by the FIM which should be carried out during the first quarter of 2013.", specifies the Spanish company.

As a result, the Texas GP in Austin scheduled for April 21 becomes the second meeting of the 2013 MotoGP season which begins on April 7 in Qatar. Note that to this day, the contract for the maintenance of the Spanish GP in Jerez is still "in the study"(read in particular).

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