Next year, MotoGP will have an unprecedented calendar size of 22 rounds – which corresponds to 44 races, including the Sprints that were introduced this year.
In an interview with Cope GP, Gresini’s rider, Álex Márquez, argued that the calendar should have only 20 Grand Prix races, as is consensual among the riders: ‘As a rider, I would say that, including the Sprints, there would be 20. For us, and we often said in the safety commission, that would be the maximum. But it will go up to 22. They say it’s two more races, but no, it’s four more – because the races are not called races for contractual reasons, but they are races. There’s a start, half the laps, and sometimes it’s almost worse than a full race. The ideal would be 20. Formula goes to 24, we go to 22, in Formula 1 it is said they want to remove some, so let’s see if we remove some‘.
The Spanish player emphasized that, in physical terms, the dimension of the calendar is already very demanding: ‘Physically, at the end of the season – me with the injury not because I was able to rest, but it causes mistakes to come and especially injuries‘.
