The more the days progress under the yoke of the coronavirus, the more the window of opportunity shrinks for MotoGP organizers. All stakeholders are aware of this and are adapting. There was the cancellation of Qatar for the MotoGP, then the postponements of Thailand and Austin with a new calendar setting the start of the competition on May 3 in Jerez. Then the prospect of launching hostilities on this date appeared a fiction given the turn of events. Today, we hope at best for a start in June, or even July. As for the 19 races, they should be forgotten, like the 13 mentioned due to the agreements with the FIM. The ambition now is to simply run…
Gigi Dall'Igna set the trend by stating that a season 10 races would have all its legitimacy. Dorna, for his part, wrote a widely distributed letter specifying his new major objective: go shopping. And only then run. It doesn't matter where, when, and how many times... So we organize ourselves for a lightning campaign and Hervé Poncharal confirms this working hypothesis.
Echoing Pete Beirer, the sports director of a factory KTM for which his team Tech3 plays the role of satellite, he declares: “ I agree with Pit Beirer. Maybe we can be lucky if we can do ten or twelve races. Because no one knows when we can start again. This could be in June or July. Let's not forget that not so long ago the championship only had twelve races. This happened in the era of Rainey, Doohan, Schwantz and Gardner »
A return to the future that would preserve the future… “ The number of races is not a headache for me this year. Because the most important thing is to soon restore a touch of normality in our daily lives. Any assumption from ten races would be a real championship under current circumstances. Everything is possiblee”, concluded the president of IRTA on Tutomotoriweb. " Nothing can be ruled out at the moment. »
