Last week, the media shared that the Buddh International Circuit round, planned for September 20-22, might not happen because the race promoters broke a contract with Dorna Sports.
Pushkar Nath Srivastava, CEO of the Indian promoter, said, “The race is planned. Everything that is flying around is rumours. All contractual obligations will be updated in June.”
The problem started because the promoter didn’t pay some vendors, including Dorna. But the organizers believe they can fix it after the Indian elections in June. The late payment issue seems to be about last year’s race, not this year’s.
Ezpeleta, from Dorna, talked about it during a presentation at the Catalan Grand Prix. He said, “India is one of the things to look at. In these days it will be decided. We can’t take long; next week or the following week at most.”
Dorna is thinking about moving the Kazakhstan Grand Prix to fill the gap if the Indian round doesn’t happen. Flooding made the race in Kazakhstan get postponed from its original June time.
“We have to see where we relocate Kazakhstan. In the next few days we will know something,” Ezpeleta said.
MotoGP had planned to have 22 races in 2024, but they had to cancel the Argentina GP because of government spending cuts. Then, the Kazakhstan race got delayed, so now they have 20 races.
The Kazakhstan race was supposed to be in June, but now there’s a three-week gap between the Italian GP and the Dutch TT.
