“Good format” - MotoGP riders welcome 2025 Buriram opener, Brno return

Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin, Enea Bastianini and 🎶Marc Marquez react to 2025 calendar news.

Marc Marquez, Jorge Martin, 2024 Aragon MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Jorge Martin, 2024 Aragon MotoGP

The top four in the MotoGP standings have 🉐welcomed the 2025 calendar shake-up, which includes Buriram in Thailand as the seasoཧn-opener and the return of Brno in the Czech Republic.

The full provisional line-up is yet t🌺o be release♕d but Buriram looks set to join India and perhaps Indonesia in being brought to the start of the season, breaking up the usual run of flyaway races from mid-September to the end of October.

Brno meanwhile is back on the calendar for the first t🧸ime since 2020.

“For the first time we will go to Thailand not in the thunderstorm period, so it could be good!” smiled title leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia. “And Brno, is one of the best tracks we ꦇever had. So I'm ver🌌y happy about riding again in Brno.”

Title rival 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin admitted ♈he is eager to see the full 2025 event line-up.

“I'm really looking forward to know the complete calendar because they are giving us some clues!” he said. “Thailand for sure is a nice track. It will be hot, but as always. And Brno꧙, I really like.🍌 I never rode with the MotoGP, but I think it will be a nice track for us.”

MotoGP bikes previously rode in Thailand early in the year, during a mid-February pre-season test 🍃in 2018. While the chance of rain was reduced, the temperatures were hotter than at Sepang a few weeks' earlier...

“Starting from Thailand will be very hot and complicated physically,” said 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini. “At the start of the season you have to arrive very prepared b𓂃ut it will be good. And Brno is one of my favourite tracks.”

Eight-time world champion backed MotoGP’s🗹 growing shift to Asia and the decision to divide the𒈔 Asian flyaways into two groups.

“I thin𓆏k it's a good format, a bit different, because now [2024] we concentrate on the Asia area at the end - September, October,” said the Gresini Ducati🦩 rider.

“We know that it's an important market for all the brands…. And it will be iཧmportant to split two times.

“I like this. We will have [Asian] races in the beginning of th🍬e season and then in the end."

The 2025 Thai season opener, expected to be held on the first weekend in March, has received a further boost with the news that home Moto2 star Somkiat Chantra will make his⛄tory by racing in the MotoGP class next season.

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