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MotoGP wants to return to Brazil...hoping for the best this time

The circuit would be the one in Goiânia and the GP is expected to enter the calendar in 2026. In 2019, a Grand Prix in Rio de Janeiro was announced for 2022, but nothing came of it

MotoGP: MotoGP wants to return to Brazil...hoping for the best this time

Will MotoGP return to Brazil? The possibility might actually not be entirely far-fetched. According to reports from the website grandepremio.com.br, a possible date for the return would in fact be 2026. Also according to reports from the web portal, the official announcement will be made on December 12 and will concern a multi-year agreement until 2028 and with a possible extension to 2030, with the Goiânia Ayrton Senna International Autodrome, located about 200 km from the capital Brasilia.

The awarding ceremony is expected to be held at the Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center in the presence of Goiás governor Ronaldo Caiado, Dorna patron Carmelo Ezpeleta, and head of Motorsport in Brazil Alan Adler, who is already in charge of organizing the Formula 1 GP at Interlagos.

The rapprochement between the parties reportedly came to fruition last June when a delegation composed of Executive Secretary General Adriano da Rocha Lima and Secretary for Sport and Recreation Rudson Guerra traveled to Assen to coincide with the championship round and later traveled to Madrid for private talks with the series promoter.

Absent from the scene since the late 1980s, the Brazilian track could thus return, provided it gets homologation from the FIM. Given that Dorna is looking for a South American alternative to Argentina's Termas de Rio Hondo track, this solution could prove to be the winning one.

This is not the first time MotoGP has tried to return to Brazil. In 2019, a five-year agreement between Dorna and Rio Motorsports was announced to hold a Grand Prix starting in 2022. It was to be run on a new circuit, Rio Motorpark, but nothing came of it. The last time MotoGP made a stop in the South American country was in 2004, at the Jacarepaguá track, while Goiâna was raced from 1987 to 1989.

 

Translated by Julian Thomas

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