The MotoGP Kazakhstan Grand Prix is not going to happen and a second spherical will probably be held in Qatar as a substitute, Autosport understands.
The race on the Sokol circuit has been unsure from the second it entered the calendar.
Initially, the occasion was because of debut final yr, however its cancellation was announced not long into the season as work on the power, simply exterior the city of Almati, was not on schedule.
The 2024 occasion was scheduled for 14-16 July, however has to be postponed due to extreme flooding in the region this yr.
It was determined that the occasion could be placed in the gap left by the Indian Grand Prix, on the weekend of 20-22 September, which was cancelled after the native promoter failed to satisfy its commitments.
Nonetheless, Autosport can reveal that Kazakhstan is not going to be making its MotoGP debut this time round both, because of the lack of ensures supplied by the native organisers.
That is regardless of Dorna’s efforts in latest months, through which it has repeatedly despatched contingents to hurry up all of the work that was nonetheless pending.
The truth that the circuit is situated in a really distant space with out a lot infrastructure has not helped.
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That is the third 2024 race to be cancelled after India and Argentina, although the full variety of rounds will stay at 20.
Dorna, along with the opposite gamers who handle the occasion, has opted for a second go to to Qatar after it opened this yr’s calendar.
This would be the second time in MotoGP historical past that Qatar will characteristic twice on the identical calendar.
In 2021, because of the COVID pandemic, MotoGP opened the season with back-to-back occasions at Losail – the Qatar GP and the Doha GP.
A lot of circuits hosted races twice in 2020 and 2021 for a similar cause.
That second 2024 race on the Losail circuit would be the first of a busy Asian tour, which can start on the outskirts of Doha on 22 September, earlier than the sequence strikes to Indonesia (29 September) and the next week Japan (6 October). It’ll shut with one other hat-trick in Australia (20 October), Thailand (27 October) and Malaysia (3 November).
The season will conclude two weeks later in Valencia, on the weekend of 15-17 November.