2025 MotoGP Calendar

26th September 2024

Ben Miles

MotoGP has finally revealed its 2025 calendar, which sees 22 rounds across seven months. In it we have several races absent, some a surprise, some not, and several races shift significantly from their traditional slots.

Which MotoGP races aren’t happening in 2025?

Let’s work backwards a little, because in reality the biggest news is what’s not happening rather than what is. MotoGP had already confirmed that the Indian Grand Prix is being delayed yet again, now slated to return in 2026, three years after its first event in 2023. The other major absence is the quiet removal of the Kazakh Grand Prix. The event had a contract for the 2025 season, but is not even mentioned by MotoGP. This follows the event’s repeated delays. Much like Formula 1’s Vietnam round, it now looks like MotoGP’s journey to Kazakhstan may never even begin.

So, what races have changed for 2025?

We already knew a few things. The season begins in Thailand for the first time and the British Grand Prix moves to May to try and attract more punters after a disappointing 2024. Qatar, not hosting the opening round due to Ramadan, is now scheduled to be the fourth event in early May.

New changes are a switch for two of the Spanish rounds, with the race in Aragon now moving to June and Catalunya taking place in September, in almost exactly the same slots as the other took in 2024.

The final change is the reprieve for the Portuguese Grand Prix, which was expected to disappear from the 2025 calendar to make way for the new round in Hungary. That fifth race on the Iberian Peninsula returns, but shifts to the penultimate slot in the calendar in late October, back-to-back with the final round in Valencia. In 2024 it had the exact opposite slot, running as the championship’s second round.

What new races join for 2025?

The aforementioned Hungarian Grand Prix is the only brand-new race for 2025 now that there’s no chance of a return for the Kazakh GP. That race will take place at the new Balatonring, about 90km away from Budapest.

The Argentinian Grand Prix will be a new round of sorts, given that it was cancelled in 2024 due to the ongoing financial crisis in the country.

When does the 2025 MotoGP season start and finish?

The first sprint race will take place at the Chang International Circuit on 1^st March, followed by the first grand prix on the 2^nd. The season will finish at Valencia, as is traditional, with a grand prix on 16^th November.

When is the 2025 MotoGP summer break?

Later than usual, three weeks to be precise. It’ll sit between the Czech race on 20^th July and the Austrian Grand Prix on 17^th August.