2018 Calendars: MotoGP

2018 MotoGP

FIM Road Racing World Championship in three classes: MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3.

I haven’t broken them into separate calendars as all three classes presently race at every Grand Prix meeting.

Oh and if you don’t watch MotoGP or the sub-classes, sort yourself out because you really should!

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*As at 1 February 2018*

2018 MotoGP

Date	Race	Track	Location
18 Mar	Grand Prix of Qatar	Losail International Circuit	Doha, Qatar
8 Apr	Gran Premio Motul de la República Argentina	Termas de Rio Hondo	Rio Hondo, Argentina
22 Apr	Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas	Circuit of the Americas	Austin, Texas, USA
6 May	Gran Premio Red Bull de España	Circuito de Jerez	Jerez, Andalusia, Spain
20 May	HJC Helmets Grand Prix de France	Le Mans Bugatti	Le Mans, La Sarthe, France
3 Jun	Gran Premio d’Italia Oakley	Autodromo del Mugello	Florence, Tuscany, Italy
17 Jun	Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	Montmelo, Catalonia, Spain
1 Jul	Motul TT Assen	TT Circuit Assen	Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
15 Jul	GoPro Motorrad Grand Prix Deutchsland	Sachsenring	Saxony, Germany
5 Aug	Monster Energy Grand Prix České Republiky	Masaryk Circuit, Automotodrom Brno	Brno, Czechia
12 Aug	Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich	Red Bull Ring	Spielberg, Styria, Austria
26 Aug	Octo British Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit	Northamptonshire, England, UK
9 Sep	Gran Premio di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli	Rimini, Italy
23 Sep	Gran Premio Movistar de Aragón	MotorLand Aragon	Alcañiz, Aragon, Spain
7 Oct	PTT Thailand Grand Prix	Chang International Circuit	Buriram, Thailand
21 Oct	Motul Grand Prix of Japan	Twin Ring Motegi	Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
28 Oct	Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix	Phillip Island	Victoria, Australia
4 Nov	Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix	Sepang International Circuit	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
18 Nov	Gran Premio Motul de la Communitat Valencia	Circuit Ricardo Tormo	Cheste, Valencia, Spain

What’s Changed?

In:

• Thailand GP at Buriram.

 

The new addition for this year, which I think has been coming for a while, is the Thailand Grand Prix at the Buriram track. World Superbikes have been going for a few years now.

This is an expansion to the calendar, so we go up from 18 to 19 rounds.

Aside from that there are some date shuffles in the summer. In 2017 we saw a couple of back-to-back weekends in June/July, Mugello and Barcelona were paired, then a week off before Assen and Sachsenring. This gave the teams four consecutive weekends off through July/August.

For 2018 this is gone. The mid-summer break reduces to two clear weekends in July. The series runs a ‘week on, week off’ schedule with a race every 2 weeks all the way from April (Rio Hondo) to mid-July (Sachsenring). There is a short break before the Brno and Red Bull Ring double in early August.

The hardest part of it is the three consecutive weeks of racing at the very end of the year, just as before, where the teams go from Japan to Australia to Malaysia. It gives a very condensed finish to the year which presumably helps the championship PR. And it means they’re away from Europe for less time.