MotoGP: Grands Prix over two days could respond to the feared concentration of races

This MotoGP season has a delay in ignition and it is against its will. The world must face a pandemic whose only solution, to slow its spread, is to limit contact and travel as well as population concentrations. Borders are closing, countries are locking down, but one day everything will start again and we will have to be ready. For a world championship season, this will mean making up for lost time and concentrating meetings as much as possible until the end of the calendar year. For the organizations, the equipment, the logistics, the challenge promises to be immense. However, a reflection follows to soften the shock...

We must be convinced that this pandemic of Coronavirus, we will eventually get out of this. When the signal is given, it will be necessary to resume its activities and for MotoGP, it will be starting a season from now 19 deadlines across the planet. It should have started on March 8 with a Qatar canceled, then on March 22 with a Thailand pushed back like Austin expected April 5. So here we are in May Jerez, for the 3rd, a circuit which has just closed its doors for 15 days. To start…

We will then be halfway through the year 2020, and we will have to run... After time! We know that a period of eight Grands Prix in ten weeks with different time zones is on the new calendar. Will the organizations hold up? Maybe if we relieve them for one day... The idea is currently being explored in Formula 1 who is going through the same situation. Ross Brawn, F1's sporting manager, has revealed that the category could reduce meeting weekends to just two days in 2020.

For MotoGP, this option has been considered since the ambition of a season 22 Grands Prix has been validated. The situation imposed by the Coronavirus could bring forward the period of implementation of such a scheme, which therefore eliminates Friday. To be continued…