New “tile” on the 2024 MotoGP calendar. After the cancellation of the Argentina Grand Prix in Rio Hondo, the news of the postponement of the Kazakhstan GP which should have taken place on June 15th and 16th on the new track Sokol. According to the organizers of the MotoGP the event will be recovered “later this season” but obviously it is still early to say anything about a new date.
FLOOD EMERGENCY
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The cause of the movement of the race is to be ascribed to the weather emergency that has been affecting the Central Asian country for about a month. After an unusual period of heavy rain, there were extensive floods which caused extensive damage and above all the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. The need to assist displaced people and repair damage to vital infrastructure in the disaster areas prompted the Kazakh government to ask for the race to be postponed.
“CURSE” ON THE KAZAKH GP
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The hope of local fans is that a recovery of the race will materialize in the autumn, perhaps combined with the long Asian trip of the MotoGP. Either way, she seems to have broken down a real “curse” on the Kazakh GP. Already last year’s edition, scheduled for July 9th, it was canceled due to track approval problems and also due to logistical difficulties aggravated by the “nearby” conflicts in Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh. The fear of many fans is that the Kazakhstan GP will go the way of Kymi Ring Finnish GPwhich after the cancellation of the editions 2020 and 2021 for Covid-19 and of that 2022 due to international tensions it was definitively canceled after the bankruptcy of the track construction companycurrently incomplete and in a state of abandonment. Formula One also boasts a sinister precedent of “ghost racing”The Vietnam GP which after two abortive attempts due to the pandemic and unclear organizational issues was definitively canceled in 2022…
