Being the promoter of a MotoGP in these complicated times means excelling in a new competition: that of obstacle racing. An exhausting event since the finish line is not yet determined while with each stride, a difficulty is put in place. Such is the rule imposed by a coronavirus which poses many questions without us yet being able to give the slightest answer. Take the case of a Finnish Grand Prix which was to celebrate its big return to the calendar this year. Because of global confinement, its approval is not even finalized…
If many Grands Prix are currently canceled or postponed, there is one which will perhaps have a unique reason for not being able to deliver. it's about the Finland. Planned for July 12, it can hope, given its still distant position on the calendar, to pass under the caudine forks of this pandemic which we hope will have become a bad memory this summer... Except that because of the confinement, the route of the Ten Rings is not yet approved…
« It is true that the Kymi Ring does not yet have Grand Prix approval. », assured Franco Uncini on speedweek. " When I will be able to do it is uncertain. I will only be able to say it when I can travel again. For now, I'm stuck at home in Recanati under house arrest »
Some team owners assume the rest of the MotoGP season will be in Europe because many countries won't lift flight bans so quickly and at least won't let in travelers from Italy, Spain or from France and other seriously affected countries in the country. Except to isolate them for 14 days.
Therefore, new Grand Prix venues in southern Europe could be validated. This is how the lines of Portimão andEstoril in Portugal were discussed. “ I am not ruling out anything at the moment, but it will not be easy to approve such category A circuits ", said Uncini, 500 cm3 world champion in 1982. Furthermore, in this emergency situation, the boss of Dorna, Carmelo Ezpeleta, and the president of the FIM, Jorge Viegas, could agree to have the circuit approved using a drone with live images…
