MotoGP™ returns to Rio de Janeiro from 2022

Dorna Sports activities is delighted to mumble that MotoGP™️ will be returning to Brazil from 2022, with a five-one year contract with Rio Motorsports (RMS) securing the game’s return to Rio de Janeiro unless 2026. The all-contemporary Rio Motorpark, mumble for constructing in Deodoro, will host the Big Prix, which is relief in Rio after 15 years.

Brazil, and Rio de Janeiro, have already staged some inconceivable chapters in the history of the game, most now not too prolonged ago in 2004 at Jacarepaguá, which had hosted MotoGP™ since 1995. The improvement of a recent venue to regulate Jacarepaguá, which became once repurposed as an Olympic Park, makes for a thrilling prospect for every the game and the metropolis.

Rio Motorpark is forecast for completion in 2021 and good points a 4.5km structure of seven left- and 6 correct-handed corners, with an approximate MotoGP™ laptime of 1 minute 38 seconds.

Marcelo Crivella, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro: “The suggestions that we already have a fundamental competition for Rio’s contemporary racetrack, MotoGP, confirmed for 2022, represents a huge reach for our metropolis. The improvement of the Deodoro racetrack is a spectacular project, with an unprecedented investment that can generate 7,000 jobs and originate Rio rep the leading role in fundamental competitions. We can steal pattern to a self-discipline of the metropolis with many needs, which is the West Zone, and stimulate tourism. All this with out the Metropolis hanging a penny into the project, since your whole investment might well well be the responsibility of the concessionaire.”

JR Pereira, CEO of Rio Motorsports: “Dorna became once an awfully steady companion in every dialog we had. Now that we’ve completed the local environmental impact stories and the commission that can mediate into the matter is in mumble, following the regulatory insurance policies of INEA (Rio de Janeiro Grunt Atmosphere Agency), it has been doable to formalize an agreement that has been built for over two years. We’re very grateful to Carmelo and his team that we are in a position to have the dream of bringing MotoGP relief to Rio.”

Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of Dorna Sports activities: “I’m very proud to mumble that MotoGP will be returning to bustle in Rio de Janeiro, undoubtedly among the enviornment’s in point of fact iconic cities and in such an very very most tantalizing nation. Brazil is a truly worthy market for motorcycles, motorcycle racing and motorsport, with a history to be good ample with – and a future that I’m angry to see MotoGP play this type of needed allotment as we return in 2022.”