Coronavirus: MotoGP Thailand GP postponed to October 4 in place of GP Aragon

The Grand Prix of Thailand, initially scheduled for April 22 but postponed due to the coronavirus, is rescheduled from October 2 to 4, 2020. The Grand Prix of Aragon normally scheduled on these dates is brought forward by one week from September 25 to 27. Explanations.

"The FIM, IRTA and Dorna have evaluated alternative dates to place the event later this season and can now announce that the GP of Thailand has been postponed from October 2 to 4," the International Motorcycling Federation announced on Thursday. (FIM), the association of teams and the promoter of the Grands Prix.

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"The Grand Prix of Aragon will now be held a week earlier, from September 25 to 27", develop the three important entities of the world championship of speed whose start of the season is significantly compromised by the epidemic of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Faced with the threat, the first MotoGP race was canceled after the announcement that all people from or having stayed in a country at risk – including Italy and Japan – would be placed in quarantine on their arrival in the Emirate. The Moto3 and Moto2, already on site, will open the season this weekend without the premier category.

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Then the organizers of the Grand Prix of Thailand decided to postpone what was to be the second event of the 2020 calendar on the Buriram circuit. Since then, solutions were being studied between all parties concerned to move the GP of Thailand to October, at the time of the traditional tour of the Pacific..

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The Thai race therefore finds its "usual" place in the program, like the. The drivers will then have a week of respite before going on without a break in the Grands Prix of Japan, Australia and Malaysia from October 18 to November 1.

The trip to the Grand Prix of Aragon a week earlier – from September 25 to 27 – on the other hand, places the Spanish event in direct competition with the French rounds of WSBK at Magny-Cours… 

Hoping that this is the last "development" on the MotoGP 2020 calendar, as doubts reign over the GP of the Americas where the first MotoGP race should normally take place on April 5…

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