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MotoGP has introduced a alternative for the long-in-doubt inaugural 2024 Kazakhstan Grand Prix, electing to fill its place with a second race at Misano.
In doing so, the collection has arrange a conflict with one other Italian spherical of MotoGP promoter Dorna’s different main championship – World Superbike.
Initially earmarked for a June date after its 2023 debut fell via, the primary Kazakhstan Grand Prix on the Sokol observe was first pushed again to September, filling a slot instantly vacated by the Indian Grand Prix.
However racing at Sokol in September additionally proved a no-go as a result of what MotoGP has now put all the way down to “operational and logistical points arising from the sooner flooding throughout the area” – which had been deemed chargeable for the delay earlier within the yr.
MotoGP was recognized to have scrambled to discover a third completely different race to fill the September 20-22 slot, with it first touchdown on a second Qatar race as its most well-liked alternative – just for that to fall via.
It’s going to now maintain a second race at Misano, the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, two weeks after the preliminary San Marino Grand Prix on the identical venue. Within the weekend between these, Misano is internet hosting biking expo Italian Bike Competition.
Misano had already held two MotoGP races a season in each 2020 and 2021 as calendars had been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
However the second Misano race’s new slot will this time imply a really tight logistical turnaround as MotoGP will then race to Indonesia’s Mandalika circuit only a week later.
Extra pertinently, although, the Misano circuit can also be simply 250km away from the Cremona circuit, which has been added to the WSBK calendar this yr and can host its spherical the identical weekend as the brand new Emilia Romagna GP.
