[kropotkin thinks...] - Brazil To Join MotoGP As Part Of Expanded Calendar From 2022

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2022 promises to see a major shakeup of the MotoGP calendar. Today, one of the pieces which will make up MotoGP's calendar was announced, with the news that the Rio Motorpark has signed a five-year deal with Dorna to host the Brazilian round of MotoGP from 2022 to 2026.

The new venue will see MotoGP return to Brazil after an absence of 18 years. From 1995 to 2004, Grand Prix racing was held at the Nelson Piquet Circuit in Jacarepagua, to the southwest of Rio de Janeiro, and before that at Goiana in the north of Brazil* between 1987 and 1989, before moving to Interlagos near Sao Paulo for 1992.

Brazil, along with rest of South and Central America, is a key market for the manufacturers. Nearly a million powered two wheelers were sold in Brazil last year, with Honda taking the vast bulk of those, selling 775,000 units.

The Brazilian round of MotoGP is to be held at a new circuit to be built*at Deodoro, in the northwest of Rio de Janeiro. That circuit will be part of the Rio Motorpark, to be built on land formerly owned by the Brazilian military.*