MotoGP open to following in F1’s footsteps with sprint race introduction

As per a report, MotoGP is looking to alter its race weekend format for 2023 with events similar to that of Formula 1 sprint races.

Keen to bring some unpredictability to the order of the Formula 1 grid, initial plans to introduce sprint races fell through due to the desire to contest them with a reversed grid.

The concept did go on to make its Formula 1 debut in 2021, but without using a reversed grid, with traditional qualifying instead held on a Friday of a sprint weekend.

‘Sprint qualifying’, a 100km race, then determines the grid for the grand prix.

Three stagings of sprint qualifying took place in 2021, with the same number planned for 2022. The Emilia Romagna and Austrian Grand Prix race weekends used the format, with Interlagos set to do the same later in the season.

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And from next year, MotoGP wants to join the party.

Dorna Sports and the Motorsport Network combined to create the 2022 Global MotoGP Fan Survey, and after bringing up the proposition of sprint races in the series via that survey, Motorsport.com state that MotoGP will look to bring them in for every round of the 2023 season as a standalone event.

The plan, allegedly, is to award half-points for a race that will be around half the distance of the grand prix. The report adds that these plans will be discussed in Friday’s Grand Prix Commission meeting at the Red Bull Ring, ahead of MotoGP’s Austrian Grand Prix.

Motorsport.com state that the majority of MotoGP’s constructors are onboard with the