After a 2024 in which there have been up to six changes to the planned programme, MotoGP is looking for greater balance and security for 2025. The International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) has published the provisional calendar for next year, reinforcing the European events and renouncing two Asian enclaves, Kazakhstan and India, which have been causing real headaches for the organisers of the event for years. The return of Brno, in the Czech Republic, and the debut of Balaton Park, in Hungary, are the two big new features on the agenda.
If plans don’t go awry again, MotoGP will visit 18 countries and 22 circuits on five different continents in 2025, and the new formula avoids three consecutive race weekends, which has been quite common in end-of-season tours in recent years. The next season will start in Thailand between February 28 and March 2 and will finish, as is tradition, in Valencia, between November 14 and 16.
After a demanding start that will lead to paddock Argentina, the United States and Qatar in just one month, a stretch of 12 races in five months will begin on the old continent, giving way to two double-headers in Asia and Oceania before the close of the championship in the Iberian Peninsula, with the inclusion of the Portuguese GP as the penultimate round of the season after the recent endorsement of the country’s authorities.
The 2025 calendar includes nine dates shared with Formula 1 and a total of seven double-headers with races on consecutive weekends. Spain will have four stops, the first being the Spanish GP on 27 April in Jerez. This will be followed by the Aragon GP on 8 June and a Catalunya GP which will be moved from May to 7 September next year.
The cancellation of the 2025 Indian GP on Wednesday, one day before the publication of the provisional FIM calendar, has once again brought to the fore the logistical problems of recent seasons, where the Spanish promoter Dorna has had to improvise and make several changes to the planned schedule even in the middle of the season. A political conflict had already caused the cancellation of the Argentine GP at the beginning of the year and the opening round at the Kazakhstan GP was subsequently postponed. The suspension of the 2024 Indian GP meant that Kazakhstan was repositioned in the vacated space, later occupied by the recently contested Emilia Romagna GP after another cancellation of the Central Asian event.
However, MotoGP has gone from a record 22 events also scheduled for 2024 to struggling to reach the 20 that allow its promoter to meet the minimum contracts for the commercial exploitation and television rights of the championship.
The dates of the 2025 Moto GP calendar
GP of Thailand: March 2.
Argentine GP: March 16th.
GP of the Americas: March 30th.
Qatar GP: April 13th.
Spanish GP: April 27th.
French GP: May 11th.
British GP: May 25th.
Aragon GP: June 8th.
Italian GP: June 22.
Dutch GP: June 29th.
German GP: July 13th.
Czech Republic GP: July 20th.
Austrian GP: August 17th.
Hungarian GP: August 24th.
Catalunya GP: September 7th.
San Marino GP: September 14th.
Japanese GP: September 28th.
Indonesian GP: October 5th.
Australian GP: October 19th.
Malaysian GP: October 26th.
Portuguese GP: November 9th.
Valencia GP: November 16th.
