Thailand buat keputusan untuk tangguh kontrak penganjuran MotoGP hingga 2022.
Difahamkan, kerajaan Thailand rancang untuk menganjakkan pembatalan perlumbaan pada tahun 2020 kepada 2021 dan menangguhkan kontrak penganjuran lima tahun MotoGP dari 2021 kepada 2022.
Senario itu mencetuskan salah faham di antara pihak Dorna dan Thailand seperti disahkan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Dorna, Carmelo Ezpeleta.
Pelan asal kontrak penganjuran MotoGP di Buriram adalah dari 2021 hingga 2025 namun Thailand mahu kontrak tersebut dianjakkan kepada 2022-2026.
Menurut laporan Bangkok Post, yuran penganjuran MotoGP masih kekal pada EUR25 juta (RM121 juta) bagi tempoh lima tahun tersebut.
Kerajaan Thailand turut membuat keputusan membatalkan pusingan kedua MotoGP di Buriram susulan kebimbangan penularan wabak Covid-19.
Keputusan itu disahkan sendiri Timbalan Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Kesihatan, Anutin Charnvirakul selepas sesi mesyuarat bersama badan penganjur, hari ini.
“Langkah untuk membatalkan GP Thailand 2020 di Buriram perlu susulan penularan wabak Covid-19. Ini bagi membuktikan komitmen Thailand dalam menangani masalah ini,” jelasnya menurut Bangkok Post.
Thailand membuat penilaian tersebut setelah badan permotoran dunia (FIM) mengumumkan bahawa aksi kelas premier MotoGP di Qatar dibatalkan di samping negara itu kini merekodkan 43 kes Covid-19.
(SUMBER: Bangkok Post)
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Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo announced that he will try to race in the next round at the Buriram Circuit in Thailand next weekend.
He made the announcement after another round of medical check-ups on his right foot.
Lorenzo was launched high into the air in a highside at the first corner immediately after the start of the Aragon GP last Sunday. He landed awkwardly on his right foot before being clouted twice (fortunately at low speed) by his own bike.
It was over before it began for @lorenzo99 at the #AragonGP ? pic.twitter.com/yqKHBiTmoT
— MotoGP™? (@MotoGP) September 24, 2018
He was stretchered off the track’s runoff area to the Clinica Mobile where he was found to have suffered a dislocated big toe and compound fracture in the second metatarsal of his right foot.
Lorenzo would go on to blame Marc Marquez for the crash through multiple tweets, although his team members disagreed with him (off the record, of course).
Ducati announced that the latest check-up revealed that he’s “recovering well,” although the foot was “still swollen.”
The triple MotoGP champion will assess if the pain is tolerable to race at Buriram.
Ducati report that the latest check showed Lorenzo’s injuries are ‘recovering.
Juara dunia sembilan kali Valentino Rossi telah menyifatkan Litar Antarabangsa Chang sebagai membosankan. Reaksi ini adalah tindak balasnya kepada laporan yang mengatakan Thailand mungkin menjadi negara Asia yang ketiga menganjurkan perlumbaan MotoGP di litar yang terletak di Buriram.
Nine time world champion Valentino Rossi has described the Chang International Circuit as boring. This is in response to reports that Thailand may be the third Asian country to host a MotoGP race at the circuit in Buriram.
In a report published by motorsport website crash.net, Rossi is said to be “not very happy to go” to Thailand in 2018.
The report said that Rossi was left “unmoved” after a recent trip to the Chang International Circuit. It is said that he was left unmoved by the location, and feels that the five hour drive from Bangkok would be “inconvenient for the traveling MotoGP community”.
Referring to the possible addition of a 19th race in 2018, Rossi was quoted as saying, “I think 18 is already a good number.”
“If from 18 goes to 19, it doesn’t change the world, but if it’s possible to remain 18, I’m more happy.”
Describing the problems with the track, Rossi said, “Especially the problem I think is, I was in Thailand for Yamaha two years ago and the track is not interesting. It’s very boring, has not a lot of corners, just long straights. I think it’s not the best place to go.”
“And also where the track is, is quite bad, it’s far from everything. So I’m not very happy to go to Thailand, essentially, on that track. But if we have to go, we’ll go.”
Marc Marquez too echoed the opinion of his rival, and agreed that the number of races per year was “already a lot”. However, Marquez too is open to the idea of sampling a new setting and layout.
“Like Valentino says, 18 race is already a lot,” said Marquez. “Maximum, I don’t know the plan in the future, but maximum 20 races will already be the limit for the riders. But, OK, Thailand is a new track, I like new tracks. Always when we go to new tracks I feel good. So why not? I like it.”
However, current championship leader Maverick Vinales expressed concern that the expansion to more races would make it more difficult for riders to keep fit throughout the season.
In the report, Vinales was quoted as saying, “It’s always difficult. When it’s more races it’s even more difficult because you have to continue on your 100% all of the year. It’s really difficult. When you have a great physical condition, six, seven more, you start to go down.
“But every person will go down, you cannot stay at the top level all the year. It’s going to make it more difficult, but also it’s going to be good for the show, more interesting. Let’s see. I don’t know. I like to go to new places, new tracks that we can enjoy it.
“Thailand, the place is quite nice, so it’s going to be quite nice to go there. It’s going to be good. Also, the other places, I like to go to new tracks and try it, and not always the same tracks. It’s going to be difficult to make all of the year at a really good level.”
Read the original report by Crash.net here.
According to a report made by the Bangkok Post, the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) and Dorna has come to an agreement which will see Thailand hosting the MotoGP race for three years beginning in 2018. Both parties finally struck the deal the past weekend back in Italy. (more…)
Following the recent round of Asia Road Racing Championship (ARRC) in Thailand just last weekend, we saw that our home-grown hero Azlan Shah from the Manual Tech KYT Kawasaki Racing Team emerged victorious in both races of Round 2.
The race ran its course around the Buriram International Circuit which was filled with more than the usual drama and excitement. One of which would be Anthony West’s disqualification from both races in which he had obtained podium positions.
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