MotoGP in 2022 will want to regain the racing dynamics in which it was engaged before the health crisis. By this I mean that we will have to travel and get used to a campaign familiar with the 22 Grands Prix. Moreover, the calendar project for next year is edifying in this respect: 21 meetings are expected across the planet, with two new routes, over a period of 35 weeks. The drivers will have to be in good shape...
In a recent intervention, Fonsi Nieto was alarmed by the physical state of riders undermined by increasingly efficient and therefore demanding motorcycles to get the most out of them. Already this year, with 18 games, the resistance is being undermined among already sharp athletes. So imagine with three more rounds and the associated travel…
The health crisis first delivered a season to 14 races in Europe, then this year, Dorna achieved the feat of offering 18 with an overseas appointment at Austin. 2022 is much more ambitious. And here is the program which is just waiting for its formalization. The season kicks off on March 6 with the traditional opening round under the spotlights in Qatar, while the Indonesian Grand Prix will follow for the second round on March 20. The MotoGP last raced in the country in 1997 at the Sentul circuit, and will stage the first street race of the modern era at the Mandalika venue on the island of Lombok, which will be used as a public road outside races and, above all, in the coming weeks, by the WSBK championship which has chosen to hold its grand finale there.
The Argentine Grand Prix will return on 3th April after a two-year break, imposed by COVID and it would precede the Grand Prix of the Americas in Texas, a sequence which presents itself as a first since 2016.
MotoGP will only return to Europe on April 24 for the Portuguese Grand Prix in the Algarve, followed by escapades that we would describe as traditional to Jerez, Le Mans, Mugello, Barcelona, Sachsenring and Assen in May and June. The first half of the season will end with the return of the Finnish Grand Prix to the new KymiRing on July 10. It will be recalled that this meeting has been removed from the calendar three times since 2019 due to construction delays and the COVID pandemic. This will be the series' first visit to Finland since 1982.
MotoGP: 2022 season will be longest ever
The British Grand Prix at Silverstone will kick off the second half of the season on its new date of August 7nd, the Austrian Grand Prix now being moved to 21 August at the Red Bull Ring. MotoGP will return to Misano and Aragon in September and hold its first Japanese Grand Prix since 2019 on September 25st at Motegi, which will be followed by the Thai Grand Prix a week later, the 2 October. A week of rest will not be too much to regain your strength and set off from Australia on the formidable Phillip Island route on October 16. Malaysia will complete the demonstration in the region on October 23and in Sepang. The season will end on November 6 in Valence.
Although no official announcement has been made on the new calendar, all MotoGP teams have already been informed of the new provisional calendar. MotoGP already announced last month that its pre-season testing phase in 2022 will be limited to five days over a week, from 5 at 13 February, Malaysia and Indonesia. The rookies will therefore have to learn quickly but given what awaits them next, they will have ample opportunity to train on the job...
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