MXGP Announce Updated 2020 Calendar

Infront Moto Racing have announced an updated calendar for the 2020 FIM Motocross World Championship, which is now slated to resume on 9 August.

The third round of the 2020 series will now be held in Latvia, at the Kegums track, the usual host of the MXGP of Latvia. The Grand Prix paddock will remain in Latvia for a further week, with two more GPs being run in that time. Much similar to how AMA Supercross scheduled the final seven races of its season in Salt Lake City, with races every Sunday and Wednesday for three weeks, the second Latvian round will be the MXGP of Riga on Wednesday 12 August, also at Kegums. Then, at the end of the week will be the final Latvian round, the MXGP of Kegums, on 16 August. 

Three weeks later, the World Championship will arrive in Turkey, at the Afyonkarahisar track for the MXGP of Turkey, on 6 September, before an Italian double-header in Faenza. The first of these Italian rounds – the MXGP of Italy – will take place on Wednesday 16 September, whilst the second – the MXGP of Emilia Romagna – will take place on 20 September. 

Then comes the Motocross of Nations, which for the first time will offer World Championship points. Initially scheduled to take place in Ernee, France, the pandemic-induced restrictions in France have caused Ernee to pull out of hosting the Nations for 2020, instead being pushed to 2023. Instead, the 2020 Motocross of Nations is currently planned to take place in Matterley Basin on 27 September, a date which will hopefully offer more agreeable conditions than those of the first round of the World Championship back at the beginning of March. 

One week after the Motocross of Nations will be the MXGP of Lombardia on 4 October, before the MXGP of Spain one week later in Arroyomolinos on 11 October. 

Following the Spanish round will be a triple header in Lommel, Belgium, that will follow the same format as the Latvian triple header: on 18 October will be the Flanders round, before the MXGP of Limburg on Wednesday 21 October and finally the MXGP of Lommel on 25 October. 

There will then be a final European round of the championship in Italy – the MXGP of Trentino – on 1 November, before the MXGP of Argentina three weeks later on November 22, which is currently the final round of the series.

There are still plans to include the MXGP of Russia and the MXGP of Portugal on the 2020 calendar, although they are currently ‘to be confirmed’. 

Unfortunately, the calendar does not include a Czech round, nor a Swedish of Finnish round, all three of which have been cancelled for this season. 

It is also notable that in Latvia for the triple header, a maximum of 1000 fans will be allowed to spectate live at the circuit, and in the press release Infront Moto Racing stated that this announcement comes “with a promise that if the situation improves, we could see this number increasing.”