The 2017 Grand Prix motorcycle (MotoGP) racing season is the 69th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc Márquez started the season as defending World Champion, having secured his fifth overall title at the 2016 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix with three races remaining.
2017 MotoGP™ calendar schedule
Round | Date | Grand Prix | Circuit |
1 | 26/03 | Qatar | Losail International Circuit |
2 | 09/04 | Republica Argentina | Termas de Río Hondo |
3 | 23/04 | Americas | Circuit of The Americas |
4 | 07/05 | Spain | Circuito de Jerez |
5 | 21/05 | France | Le Mans |
6 | 04/06 | Italy | Autodromo del Mugello |
7 | 11/06 | Catalunya | Barcelona-Catalunya |
8 | 25/06 | Netherlands | TT Circuit Assen |
9 | 02/07 | Germany | Sachsenring |
10 | 06/08 | Czech Republic | Automotodrom Brno |
11 | 13/08 | Austria | Red Bull Ring - Spielberg |
12 | 27/08 | Great Britain | Silverstone |
13 | 10/09 | San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini | Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli |
14 | 24/09 | Aragon | MotorLand Aragon |
15 | 15/10 | Japan | Twin Ring Motegi |
16 | 22/10 | Australia | Phillip Island |
17 | 29/10 | Malaysia | Sepang International Circuit |
18 | 12/11 | Comunitat Valenciana | Comunitat Valenciana - Ricardo Tormo |
Team changes:
KTM will join the series with a factory-supported team for the first time.
Rider changes:
- Jorge Lorenzo joined Ducati, after leaving Movistar Yamaha MotoGP. Lorenzo's move to Ducati ends his nine-year relationship with Yamaha.
- Maverick Viñales joined Yamaha, after leaving Team Suzuki Ecstar.
- Andrea Iannone joined Team Suzuki Ecstar, after leaving Ducati. He will be partnered by Álex Rins who moved up to the premier class.
- Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaró left Tech 3 Yamaha to join the newly formed KTM factory team for the 2017 season.
- Sam Lowes moved up to the premier class, making his MotoGP début with Aprilia Racing Team Gresini. He will be partnered by Aleix Espargaró, who left Suzuki to join the team.
- Jonas Folger and Johann Zarco, the 2015 and 2016 Moto2 World Champion, moved up to the premier class, with both riders making their MotoGP début with Monster Yamaha Tech 3.
- Stefan Bradl and Eugene Laverty left MotoGP for the Superbike World Championship.
- Álvaro Bautista left Aprilia Racing Team Gresini to return to Aspar Team. Bautista previously competed with Aspar Team between the 2006 125cc and the 2009 250cc seasons.
- Karel Abraham returned to MotoGP with Aspar Team after previously competing in the Superbike World Championship in the 2016 season.
- Yonny Hernández returned to Moto2, after having being left without a ride in MotoGP.
In Jerez Spain
This weekend MotoGP arrives in Europe for the first of 11 consecutive rounds before the series embarks on the three fly-away rounds bfore returning to Europe for the season finale at Valencia. The Jerez circuit in Spain hosts the first of these rounds and celebrates its 30th anniversary on the Grand Prix calendar. The circuit has been a good hunting ground for Spanish riders. For the last 13 years there has been at least one home rider on the podium. Spanish success aside, Valentino Rossi is the most successful rider at Jerez, with seven victories in the premier class and nine in total across all three classes. In the premier class the last five years have seen five different winners, three of them Spanish. Valentino Rossi’s second place at Austin at the last round means that the Monster Yamaha rider heads the World Championship ahead of this weekend's race, making him the oldest rider to head the premier class since Jack Findlay in 1977. Rossi has fond memories of Jerez from last year when he started from pole, won the race and led across the line for every lap of the race - the first time in his illustrious career he had achieved such a feat. Marc Marquez’s victory in Austin in the last round brought the Repsol Honda rider back into contention, more so with the previous series leader (and winner of the first two GPs), Maverick Vinales, crashing out. That result means that Vinales has dropped to second place in the championship behind team-mate Rossi. Vinales, however, remains 12 points ahead of Marquez in third place in the championship. Rossi is now the only rider in the MotoGP class to finish on the podium in all three races so far this season. He has also finished on the podium at Jerez for the past three years. Marquez, however, goes one better having finished on the podium every year since 2013, his first season in the premier class. Currently only three points separate third and sixth place; perceived number two factory Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso is fourth, closely followed by top satellite rider Cal Crutchlow on the LCR Honda. Marquez’s team-mate Dani Pedrosa, who achieved his first podium since winning in San Marino last year, is currently sixth. Austin was the first time the Repsol Honda pair had shared a place on the podium since last year's Catalan MotoGP. MotoGP rookies (and team-mates on the satellite Tech 3 Yamahas) Johann Zarco and Janus Folger are seventh and eighth. Both have been impressive this year, Zarco especially. The reigning Moto2 champion had a coming together with Rossi in Texas, with Rossi being penalised 0.3 secs for gaining an advantage when he cut a corner after the incident. Rossi was not impressed with Zarco and has not been shy in expressing his views. Jorge Lorenzo continues to struggle with the factory Ducati. He currently lies 13 in the championship, with just 12 points from three races.
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