FIM Grand Prix World Championship
2021 Provisional Calendar, 6 November
Date Venue Country
March 26-28 Losail International Circuit, Qatar*
April 9-11 Termas de Río Hondo, Argentina
April 16-18 Circuit of the Americas, U.S.A.
April 29-May 1 Circuito de Jerez, Spain
May 14-16 Le Mans, France
May 28-30 Autodromo del Mugello, Italy
June 4-6 Barcelona – Catalunya, Spain
June 18-20 Sachsenring, Germany
June 25-27 TT Circuit Assen, Netherlands
July 9-11 KymiRing, Finland **
TBD To Be Decided, To Be Decided
August 13-15 Red Bull Ring – Spielberg, Austria
August 27-29 Silverstone Circuit, UK
September 10-12 MotorLand Aragón, Spain
September 17-19 Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, San Marino
October 1-3 Twin Ring Motegi, Japan
October 8-10 Chang International Circuit, Thailand
October 22-24 Phillip Island, Australia
October 29-31 Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia
November 12-14 Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Spain
* Evening Race
** Subject to Homologation
All dates, events and the attendance of spectators are subject to the evolution of the pandemic and the approval of the corresponding Governments and authorities.
Reserve Grand Prix Venues:
Portugal Algarve International Circuit
Indonesia** Mandalika International Street Circuit
Russia Igora Drive Circuit
More, from a press release issued by Dorna:
CARMELO EZPELETA, CEO of Dorna Sports: “We try to return to normality, we talked to all the promoters and made the normal calendar because it’s important to block the days and to know exactly on which days there will be the Grands Prix. We’ll start in Qatar as usual, and finish in Valencia as usual for another year. And in the middle there will be 18 Grands Prix together with the first and the last. We hope we can do it. Obviously there are many things we don’t know yet, that’s why we’ve included three reserve Grands Prix to be allocated wherever it’s possible and also taking into consideration the weather considerations of each place.
“The most important thing for me and the message I want to give is that we will try and maintain the days with a Grand Prix on those days.
“As you know, there is no Brno on the calendar yet. We’ve been talking to them for many years and always the requirement for FIM homologation is to have some works done to the circuit, especially re-surfacing, which is compulsory since the last GP. During the Safety Commission we decided it was compulsory. Unfortunately due to the changes, the South Moravian government have not been able to confirm this necessity to resurface and do the works needed for the Grand Prix. So we decided to not put it on the calendar and wait to see if they can achieve that; if not we will put reserve Grands Prix in that period. Not exactly there, because it depends if we have Brno or not.
“The first idea is that Brno has been on the calendar a long time and it’s an important Grand Prix, but it’s also important that the safety issues, especially resurfacing, is compulsory. If we don’t have confirmation we can’t include it on the calendar. We will see exactly, but we have two reserves in Europe, Portimão and Russia, and Mandalika in Indonesia. It depends where the gap is and we’ll decide if it’s necessary or not to include the Grands Prix on the calendar.
“Franco Uncini went to Igora Drive to look at it, it’s a really fantastic venue. We are looking at the possibility for it to be on the calendar. Today we have 20 GPs on the calendar and it’s not possible, but in case any of those are not possible, we will try to allocate Igora Drive as second reserve after Portimão.
“This year we tried to compromise between the possibilities and the short time we’ve had given when the pandemic allowed us to re-start. In Europe it’s not possible to race later than we are doing. We are here in Valencia and the weather is so-so – I hope it will be even better in Portimão! Unfortunately we couldn’t travel outside Europe so we did the maximum we could, during this period from July until now. Including Qatar, we have had 15 Grands Prix and we’re very proud; everyone in Dorna, the FIM, IRTA, the teams… we are extremely happy with the result we’ve obtained working together in this difficult year.”
