The Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, in Portimão, will receive, for the second consecutive year, a Grand Prix of the MotoGP world championship, on the 18th of April, the organizers of the event revealed today.
The Grand Prix of Portugal was once again chosen to be part of the championship, given the impossibility of holding the tests planned for the American continent, with Portimão being visited right at the start of the competition, in the 2021 season.
The race in the Algarve will be the third of the championship, after the two that will take place in Qatar, on the 28th of March and on the 4th of April, according to Dorna, the organizer of the MotoGP World Championship.
For now, it is not certain that the event will have an audience, but the president of the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), the Portuguese Jorge Viegas, told the Lusa agency that he had "hope" that this could happen.
«At this moment, we still don't know if there will be a public, but the truth is that I have the hope that the situation in our country will improve in such a way that we can give that joy to the Portuguese, to see Miguel Oliveira and all the other fantastic ones live pilots», assumed Jorge Viegas to the Lusa agency.
The top motorcycling leader in the world had already predicted in December that it would be “hardly” possible to carry out the races planned on the American continent, so Portugal – which was already on the reserve list – was on the front line to return to the championship, with the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve (AIA), in Portimão, as a reserve circuit.
“I'm very happy that my prediction for last year will come true, as the Portimão circuit was popular with everyone, MotoGP riders and teams,” said the same responsible.
In November 2020, the AIA hosted the last round of last year's MotoGP championship, an unprecedented race that was won by Portuguese Miguel Oliveira.
This year, the Algarve circuit appeared on the calendar as a reserve, having been called to replace the scheduled rounds for Argentina (April 11) and the United States (April 18), which were postponed due to the increase in cases caused by the new coronavirus.
This will be the 15th edition of the MotoGP Grand Prix of Portugal, after 12 editions, between 2002 and 2012, were held at the Estoril race track and the 1987 one at the Jarama circuit in Spain.
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