MotoGrandPrix Offseason/Testing Thread 2021

[kelsodeez]

I'm calling it now. The season won't start until may/June.

[Map8]

Ramon Forcada recently did a long interview with Dennis Noyes for Spanish media. MotoMatters has an English transcript of the interview broken into three parts, two of which have been posted so far. As expected, there are some great insights from Forcada about life in the GP garages.


Part 1: Using just two engines for most of the 2020 season


Part 2: Working with the 2019 Yamaha M1 and some history of engines in GP.


I'll add Part 3 when it is posted.

[Map8]

Ramon Forcada interview Part 3: Forcada talks about some of the riders he has worked with.

[R3DS!X]

Portimao is back on the menu boys!

ROUND DATE RACE CIRCUIT

1 / 28 March /Qatar (Evening race) / Losail

2 / 4 April / Doha (Evening race) / Losail

3 /18 April /Portugal /Portimao

4 /2 May /Spain /Jerez

5 /16 May /France /Le Mans

6 /30 May /Italy /Mugello

7 /6 June /Catalunya /Barcelona

8 /20 June /Germany /Sachsenring

9 /27 June /Netherlands /Assen

10 /11 July /Finland (Subject to homologation) /KymiRing

11 /15 August /Austria /Red Bull Ring

12 /29 August /Great Britain /Silverstone

13 /12 September /Aragon /Aragon

14 /19 September /San Marino e Della Riviera di Rimini /Misano

15 /3 October /Japan /Motegi

16 /10 October /Thailand /Buriram

17 /24 October /Australia /Phillip Island

18 /31 October /Malaysia /Sepang

19 /14 November /Comunitat Valenciana /Ricardo Tormo

Postponed Grands Prix:

11 April Argentina Termas

18 April Americas COTA

Reserve Grand Prix Venues:

Indonesia (Subject to homologation) Mandalika

Russia Igora Drive

2021 Pre-season Testing:

5 March Qatar Shakedown Test Losail

6-7 March Qatar Official Test Losail

10-12 March Qatar Official Test Losail

I did my best with the table idk what im doing

[scootergmc]

Originally Posted by R3DS!X

Portimao is back on the menu boys!

All I could think is how much I love Estoril-

and I didn't remember that Finland hadn't been homologlobed (is that a word? Ha).

[Map8]

Yet another reason to buy the MotoGP (and WSBK) video pass in the future. The NBCSN cable network will shut down at the of 2021.

Motosport.com: American sports cable channel NBCSN, which airs many of the nation’s top racing series including NASCAR and IndyCar, is to be closed down at the end of 2021.

Parent company NBC Universal confirmed to staff in a memo on Friday afternoon that much of its programming will be migrated to sister channel USA Network.

NBC holds the U.S. broadcast rights to half of the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series events, which it shares with Fox, as well as fulltime coverage of the NTT IndyCar Series, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCars, NHRA and Moto America. It also broadcasts national coverage of MotoGP events and the Dakar Rally.

AFT races are also shown on NBCSN as are some NHL games. I saw on Twitter that MotoAmerica's highlight program is moving to FOX Sports.

[ejv]

So a double at Losail but nowhere else?

[budman]

Bummer on NBCSN.. it does say some will roll over the USA Network.

Not sure about MotoGP etc though.

[Map8]

A large fire has destroyed the garages and other pit row buildings at Argentina's Circuito Termas de rio Hondo. Reports say no one was injured so we can be thankful for that.

[Map8]

Bastianini and Marini unveil their 2021 machines

[Intheapex]

Alex Rins will be the GOAT

[scootergmc]

Originally Posted by Map8

A large fire has destroyed the garages and other pit row buildings at Argentina's Circuito Termas de rio Hondo. Reports say no one was injured so we can be thankful for that.

I had no idea MotoE was in South America.

[afm199]

Originally Posted by scootergmc

I had no idea MotoE was in South America.

Dude!

[Map8]

MotoE has a long way to go to catch up to ICE racebike and garage fires.

[afm199]

Originally Posted by Map8

MotoE has a long way to go to catch up to ICE racebike and garage fires.

But it has the Potential to be so much more!