The Finnish Grand Prix , which was scheduled for the weekend of July 8-10 as the twelfth stop on the MotoGP calendar in 2022, will not finally be held, being postponed until 2023.
In a note issued by the FIM and Dorna , the promoter of the championship, the reasons for this change are explained.
“The homologation works at the KymiRing , together with the risks caused by the current geopolitical situation in the region, have sadly forced the cancellation of the 2022 Finnish Grand Prix . The current circumstances have created delays and put the works in jeopardy at risk. course on the new circuit. Therefore, all parties have agreed that the track’s debut should be postponed to 2023, when MotoGP hopes to return to Finland for the first time in four decades.”
“Therefore, the final calendar of the 2022 MotoGP World Championship is expected to comprise 20 rounds”, ruling out any substitution with a new unscheduled race.
The new KymiRing circuit was the second track to be released this year, after Mandalika, in Indonesia, but finally it will not arrive in time to be released this season.
Despite the fact that the promoter of the championship was confident that everything would be ready to host an event that would return to the Nordic country 40 years later (1982), a visit by a MotoGP delegation last week has advised the race to be postponed.
To dispel any doubts and verify the viability of the KymiRing on the ground, Dorna and the FIM sent “a prospecting group, with operations, television, logistics personnel, etc.,” a source from the promoter explained to Motorsport.com, on Monday after of the French Grand Prix.
After three days of visiting the facilities, it was found that the works had not advanced enough since the last visit in August 2019, when several test drivers carried out a test with unflattering conclusions about the Finnish track, located in the town of Kausala. , close to Kouvola and about 140 kilometers northeast of the capital, Helsinki.
