The 2021 season is set to get underway on 28 March with the Qatar Grand Prix, prior to the Doha GP– a recent addition to the calendar— at the very same Losail International Circuit occurs a week later.
MotoGP, nevertheless, will be present in Qatar for almost the whole of March presently, with 5 days of pre-season screening from 5-12 March for the premier class and three days from 19-21 March for Moto2 and Moto3 scheduled.
Currently, Qatar’s COVID-19 travel procedures dictate any arrivals into the country need to serve a minimum six-day quarantine duration prior to being enabled out on the seventh day so long as 2 negative PCR test outcomes are gotten.
MotoGP’s procedure will permit the entire paddock to bypass this quarantine period if they can reveal a negative COVID-19 test acquired in their origin nation.
Upon arrival in Qatar, all paddock members will be checked once again before being transferred to their hotels while awaiting the outcomes of the 2nd PCR test.
From this point, the bubble protocols which the paddock operated with to preserve social distancing and stop group blending in 2015 will enter impact.
Anyone who leaves the nation prior to the first race need to go through the same steps as mentioned above before being allowed into the paddock.
MotoGP had planned to do something similar in Malaysia for the Sepang pre-season test this month, prior to it was eventually cancelled after the nation stated a state of emergency situation owing to a surge in COVID-19 cases.
As well as two races in Qatar, the third round of the season will now occur in Portugal in early April after the United States and Argentine GPs were postponed to an undefined date at the end of the year.
On Wednesday, a spokesperson from the Buriram circuit in Thailand told Motorsport.com reports the nation’s grand prix had been cancelled this year were an outcome of a “misunderstanding”.
While further calendar revisions are most likely as the world currently faces a second wave of COVID-19 infections, on Tuesday the Brno circuit confirmed an absence of financing indicated it might not perform required track works and has needed to cancel its MotoGP occasion for 2021.
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