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

Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin, Enea Bastianini and Marc Marqu✃ez 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 shake𒊎-up, which includes Buriram in Thailand as the season-op🀅ener and the return of Brno in the Czech Republic.

The full provisional line-up is yet to be rel⛎eased 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-𝔉September to the end of October.

Brno meanwhile is back on the calendar for th♒e fi༺rst time 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia. “And Brno, is one of the best tracks we ever had. So I'm very happy a✃bout riding again in Brno.”

Title rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin admitted he is eager to see෴ the ful❀l 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 Brno, 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-Feb✅ruary pre-season test in 2018. While the chance of rain was reduced, the tempera🐠tures were hotter than at Sepang a few weeks' earlier...

“Starting from Thailand will be very hot and complicated physically,” said 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini. “At꧂ the start of the season you have to arrive very prepared but it will be good. And Brno is one of𒁃 my favourite tracks.”

Eight-time world champion backed MotoGP’s growing shift to Asia and the decision to divide the Asi🍃an fl🐎yaways into two groups.

“I think 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 wil♕l be important to split two times.

“I like this♉. We will have [Asian] races in the beginning of the season and then in the eꦍnd."

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 history by racing in the Mot🌟oGP class next season.

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