MotoGP is back in Qatar: dates and times

We made it this time ! The month of March will definitively bring the MotoGP paddock out of a hibernation that began on the evening of November 22 last year, when the Portuguese Grand Prix closed the 2020 season on its selective Portimao track. 104 days of calm will end and the storm will come from the desert as the 2021 hostilities will begin in Qatar. Before the first two Grands Prix scheduled near Doha, there will be six days of testing in total with even Moto2 and Moto3 on the program. Exactly, here it is…

The regular pilots in MotoGP will finally be able to get back to it. In the world before, we could do one last trial run at Valencia then Jerez before entering the winter break and the start of the school year took place in February at Sepang. Now it will be six days losail which will serve as an off-season. And even five for the most experienced.

The only MotoGP winter tests before the 2021 season will be carried out on March 6 and 7 and March 10 to 12, and in an atmosphere of an airtight sanitary bubble which will make work the only possible occupation. THE March 5, however, it will already work, with Aprilia who still benefit from concession points, beginners, who need driving, and test pilots, including a Cal Crutchlow highly anticipated on the Yamaha.

Qatar will also host Moto3 and Moto2

Likewise, the IRTA test initially planned for Jerez for the other two classes of the championship was also moved to Doha. THE Moto2 et Moto3 will be in action for three consecutive days from 19 at 21 March. Finally, we will note that Suzuki will present its 2021 colors in Qatar on March 5 while Marc Marquez will not be part of these preliminaries. He is no longer expected at Honda for the first two Grands Prix of the season, the first of which will take place on March 28.

Off-season program in Qatar :

Friday 5 March:

Shakedown test from 12:00 p.m. to 19:00 p.m.

Saturday March, 6: