MotorLand Aragon will remain a fixture of the MotoGP World Championship through to, at least, the 2021 season after a new five-year deal extension was penned on the Thursday before the race. MotorLand is one of four Spanish venues MotoGP visits, after Jerez, the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia.
The Spanish circuit, designed by renowned German architect Hermann Tilke, who is also responsible for the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia and the Circuit of the Americas in the United States, was constructed in 2009 and opened a year later.
The Aragon Grand Prix was a late addition to the 2010 MotoGP calendar, after plans to hold a race in Hungary fell through. Since then it has become a vital part of the schedule for many of the sport’s fans, with many of the riders also singing its praises.
MotorLand has seen some memorable moments in its short time on the MotoGP calendar, such as last year’s titanic tussle for second between Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi, as well as the wet 800th premier class race of 2014. The track has also won Grand Prix of the Year on three occasions, an award likely to return to the ultra-modern venue over the next five years.
Aragon’s new contract makes it the seventh circuit on the current calendar to be locked down until at least 2019, with Misano, Assen, Sachsenring, Phillip Island, Termas de Rio Hondo and Ricardo Tormo all signing multi-year deals this season.
This news also comes just one day after the FIM released the 2017 provisional race calendar, with the schedule remaining largely unchanged to this year’s.
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