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title: "Provisional 2017 MotoGP calendar revealed"
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author: "Lewis Duncan"
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published: "2016-09-21T12:58:36Z"
modified: "2016-09-21T12:59:03Z"
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# Provisional 2017 MotoGP calendar revealed

The FIM have released the first draft of the 2017 MotoGP World Championship calendar, with the schedule remaining largely unchanged to this year’s at this stage.

The 2017 season will once again kick off under the floodlights of the Losail International Circuit in Qatar on March 26, with the first practice sessions of the weekend taking place on Thursday 24.

Like this year, the World Championship will then head to Termas de Rio Hondo in Argentina and the Circuit of Americas in Texas for MotoGP’s only visit to the Americas. Because of massive delays for much of the paddock getting to COTA from Argentina this year, the rounds have been separated by two weeks in order to avoid a repeat of such travel woes.

The European leg of the season begins, as always, at Jerez for the Spanish Grand Prix on May 7, followed by the French GP at Le Mans, the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, the Catalan Grand Prix, the Dutch TT, ending the first half of the year at the Sachsenring in Germany on June 16.

The Austrian and Czech Grand Prix remain back-to-back to kick-start the second half of the season, though they have swapped around for 2017. The British Grand Prix is set to take place at Silverstone on August 27, with the San Marino and Aragon races separated by two weeks in September.

The 2017 season retains the punishing triple-header flyaway races in Japan, Australia and Malaysia in Octorber. Valencia, [having recently penned a five-year deal to remain as MotoGP’s season-finale](https://readmotorsport.com/2016/09/20/valencia-to-remain-on-motogp-calendar-through-to-2021/), brings the curtain down on 2017 on November 12.

There was speculation that Thailand could join the schedule in 2017 as part of the end-of-season flyaways after negotiations to stage a race in Indonesia fell through, but the Chang Circuit has been left off the calendar at present. However, Sepang is listed as still subject to contract, so it is conceivable that we could yet see a race in Thailand next year should Malaysia fail to secure a deal.

As this is just the provisional calendar, expect the final draft released at the end of the year to possibly contain a few alterations.

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