The 2024 MotoGP season will end in mid-November on the Catalunya circuit in Montmelo, near Barcelona, which replaces the Valencia circuit initially planned but unusable due to flooding, the organizers of the world championship confirmed this Tuesday in a press release. “MotoGP can now confirm that the Grand Prix will be held in Barcelona. We will return to the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit, for the outcome of the championship, on the dates normally scheduled, in solidarity with the Valencian Community” we can read in the text.
The final Grand Prix of the season, scheduled from November 15 to 17, will decide in the race for the title of world champion the Spaniard Jorge Martin, current leader, and the Italian Francesco Bagnaia, his runner-up at 24 points and champion of the world in title. La Dorna, the company promoting the MotoGP championship, had to review its emergency plans, after deadly floods ravaged the Valencia region last week, and rendered the circuit initially planned to host this last GP of the season unusable. .
The drivers had expressed their wish to race elsewhere, out of respect for the victims of the worst natural disaster in the country's recent history which left at least 218 dead according to the latest report. The Barcelona circuit, where the Catalan Grand Prix was held in May, is well known to the predominantly Spanish paddock.
