The British Grand Prix at Silverstone will transfer to a late Might calendar slot within the 2025 MotoGP schedule.
Introduced at this 12 months’s British GP, the 2025 occasion will happen on 23-25 Might at Silverstone as the newest a part of a “new-look” race calendar for MotoGP.
The British GP has been held in early August since 2022, having beforehand taken a late August slot at Silverstone since 2013, with the change aimed to take the occasion outdoors of the British summer time holidays interval in a bid to draw extra followers.
Between 2010-12 the British GP at Silverstone – and earlier than that at Donington Park between 2006-10 – it took a late June calendar slot.
“As half of what is going to be a new-look 2025 calendar for us in some methods, we’re excited to have a good time the British GP at a unique time of 12 months outdoors the vacation interval giving much more British followers the chance to return to Silverstone,” Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of Dorna Sports activities, stated.
“As everybody is aware of, MotoGP is having fun with a robust development of optimistic development for audiences and crowds around the globe. We need to guarantee this occasion, in a key market, will get the platform and publicity to allow it to play a fair greater position in that.”
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Silverstone CEO Stuart Pringle added: “Our followers gained’t have to attend so lengthy for his or her subsequent British GP repair and we’re already engaged on placing collectively one other nice weekend of MotoGP motion, dwell music, jaw-dropping stunt exhibits and rather more.”
Final month MotoGP introduced a recent contract with the Uttar Pradesh state authorities to see the return of the Indian GP from 2025, which is about to host the second spherical of the season after the Qatar GP, and duly strikes from its September slot to mid-March.
The change will ease considerations about harsh climate situations that impacted quite a few riders throughout the 2023 race on the Buddh Worldwide Circuit.
