Czech Big Prix risky on 2021 MotoGP calendar

(Reuters) – The Czech Big Prix used to be left off MotoGP’s draft 2021 calendar on Friday pending vital security work, with three reserve races listed to contain any gaps after COVID-19 ravaged this season’s time desk.

Carmelo Ezpeleta, the chief executive of rights holders Dorna, acknowledged the Brno tune vital resurfacing to meet necessities.

“We determined to now no longer put it on the calendar and wait to leer if they’ll invent that,” he defined. “If now no longer we are in a position to put reserve Grands Prix in that duration.

“Brno has been on the calendar a truly very lengthy time and it’s an vital Big Prix, however it absolutely’s also vital that the safety problems, especially resurfacing, is obligatory. If we don’t contain confirmation we are in a position to’t encompass it on the calendar.”

A slot used to be left vacant for the duration between Finland on July 11 and Austria on Aug. 15, with the calendar that contains 20 races.

Portugal’s Algarve circuit, utilized by Formulation One final month, Russia’s Igora Pressure advance St Petersburg and Indonesia’s Mandalika circuit on the island of Lombok are the reserve tracks.

“We strive and return to normality, we talked to your total promoters and made the frequent calendar because it’s vital to block the days and to know exactly on which days there would possibly per chance well well be the Grands Prix,” acknowledged Ezpeleta.

“We’ll open in Qatar as frequent, and manufacture in Valencia as frequent for one other yr. And within the heart there shall be 18 Grands Prix alongside side the first and the final. We hope we are in a position to fabricate it.”

The 2020 season has been confined entirely to Europe, even though Moto2 and Moto3 raced in Qatar in March, because of the the pandemic with races some put else cancelled.