[kropotkin thinks...] - Another Calendar Change: Thailand MotoGP Race Canceled, Contr

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Just hours after the Brno circuit announced that it would not be hosting World Championship motorcycle racing, another MotoGP round bites the dust. In this case, though, it is merely a postponement for a year, with the Thai government announcing that the Buriram round of MotoGP will not take place in 2021, but that the five year contract has been shifted along a year.

According to a story in the Bangkok Post, the Thai government has reached an agreement with Dorna to skip the race in 2021, but to extend their contract to host MotoGP to cover the period from 2022 to 2026. The 2021 race has been canceled due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, but Thailand remains committed to hosting a race for the next five years, and so the cancellation has been turned into an expansion of the current contract.