PROVISIONAL 2025 MOTOGP CALENDAR RELEASED

The FIM MotoGP World Championship has released its provisional calendar for 2025, with a total of 22 rounds in 18 countries. If all rounds go ahead as scheduled, it’ll make next year’s MotoGP season the longest ever.

While made up of mostly familiar rounds and venues, the 2025 MotoGP calendar sees the return of a European track, the debut of an all-new venue and a new location for the season opener.

Next year’s Australian round is scheduled for 17-19 October - an almost identical position to this year – and is in the second group of flyaways that includes the Japanese, Indonesian and Malaysian GPs.

In terms of omissions from the 2025 calendar, the Indian round has been cancelled again “due to operational considerations”. After multiple cancellations in past years, the Kazakhstan round remains off the calendar, too, while financial problems with the operators of the KymiRing circuit in Finland means it isn’t on the calendar, either, and seems unlikely to return.

Season 2025 gets underway at Buriram in Thailand, instead of Lusail in Qatar, which has been the traditional opener. This marks the first time the world championship has started in Asia since 2001, when Suzuka in Japan was the venue and 500cc two-strokes were the premier class (MotoGP and the four-stroke era started the following year).

Buriram also forms the first of four flyaways that kick off the season, with rounds at Termas de Rio Hondo in Argentina, Circuit of the Americas in the USA and Lusail before the European rounds get underway.

The European section of the 2025 calendar kicks off in late April with a block of eight rounds before the summer break, almost all of which are at familiar venues. Changes within this section include a much earlier British GP – moved from August to May – and rescheduling the Italian GP from late May to late June.

Brno in Czechia (aka the Czech Republic) returns for the first time since 2020 and will be the final round before the summer break. Once a staple on the GP calendar, the return of a Czech round follows a new deal that will see Brno host MotoGP until 2029.

Spielberg in Austria is the first round after the summer break, followed by Balaton Park in Hungary, which is all-new track, built to both FIM and FIA standards. Named as a reserve venue for this season, but unused, Balaton Park is also expected to be on the World Superbike Championship calendar next year.

Hungary has only hosted two Motorcycle Grand Prix rounds previously - in 1990 and 1992 - both times at the Hungaroring that’s also used for Formula 1. At the first Hungarian Motorcycle Grand Prix in 1990, Mick Doohan took his first ever 500cc win.

After Hungary, there’s the Catalan and San Marino GPs in September, then the second round of flyaways begin.

From the Japanese GP in late September to the Malaysian GP in late October, there’s racing almost every weekend, with the only break being between the Indonesian and Australian rounds. The 2025 Australian GP will be held on 17-19 October.

The 2025 MotoGP season concludes with two European rounds, as it did in 2021, with the Portuguese GP to be held ahead of the traditional finale at Valencia.

The provisional 2025 calendar is as follows: