[kropotkin thinks...] - 2021 MotoGP Calendar Update: Finland Canceled, Extra Round In

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The Kymiring will have to wait. Today, the FIM announced that due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the complications posed by travel, the Finnish Grand Prix at the Kymiring has been canceled for 2021. But in compensation, the circuit in Finland is to get a five-year contract to host MotoGP for the years 2022 to 2026.

Travel to the Kymiring was always going to be difficult. The Finnish Grand Prix is treated like a European round of MotoGP, but the logistics of getting trucks from Assen to Finland is not simple. It involves either a very long ferry ride from Germany to Finland, on a route with limited capacity and which is often fully booked, or a very long road trip through Russia up to Finland, with all the customs complications that involves. Add in the extra complications added by Covid-19 - at the time of writing, there is a compulsory 14-day quarantine for travellers to Finland - and the race poses too much of a risk.