The Portuguese GP disconnected or returned to Rossi’s mask. But the naked observer benches –
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In October 2020, more than a year and a half ago, the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve hosted a Formula 1 Grand Prix for the first time in 24 years. The phenomenon, motivated by the pandemic and the need to find alternatives for World Championship stages after many locations, was the first of several: MotoGP also passed through Portimão the month after. 2021 and Formula 1 returned to the Algarve in May last year. In October 2020, however, everything was quite different.
More than a half ago, after Portugal had already crossed the first wave of Covid-19 but with the numbers dictating the inevitability of the second, the Formula 1 Grand Prix took place a few days before masks became mandatory on public roads. — since they were already in closed spaces. More than a year and a half later, this MotoGP Grand Prix takes place a few days after the mask requirement has almost all locations except exceptional rare rare.
Miguel Oliveira was 5th and returned to a top 10 in the coronation of Fabio Quartararo as the new king of Portimão
In October 2020, as the stands at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, fans and fans of Formula 1 — but also just curious people, at a time when the country was still experiencing a kind of cultural and social lack of definition that made it possible to attend a sporting event with thousands of people seemed like a long-ago act. In the first two days of the race that Lewis Hamilton ended up winning, a pol., through the protection of the idea of distancing in the total stands and the Grand Prix of the idea of distancing bang contacts in the region. More than a year and a half in MotoGP, after the organization, some of them will only use a special lot and some elements of the organization will not exist from a special lot.
From the transition, however, it became easier and less noticeable to a discrepancy of a gigantic number. In 2020, also due to the cultural and social deconfinementthe Autódromo do Algarve received more than 27 people who were not even well distributed among the stands with the ease of change of place by the fans being one of the main criticisms leveled at the organization. This weekend, none of the benches in the venue were completely crowded or even well composed, with the Portuguese flags in support of Miguel Oliveira being easily counted on the fingers of the hands.
A Grand Prix without a net and without a distance that may have given the Algarve a new summer in the middle of autumn
Another transit point — or lack that becomes clear the transit point with the public attached to it. For more than a year and a half, right after the end of the Formula 1 Grand Prix, an exit from the Autodromo lasted more than two hours and implied periods of 20 minutes in which the cars did not move. In 2022, the departure was made quickly, without queues and without delay, with the Algarve GNR under the circumstances without obstacles. Still, it is necessary to record a more: most fans who travel to the Algarve to watch MotoGP do so by motorcycle and car, something that naturally makes it easier not to get out of the traffic.
But public aside, the truth is that the Portuguese Grand Prix continues to be one of the favorites of MotoGP riders and o Most likely, in 2023, Portimão will again be one of the stages of the World Championship. The scenario confirmed was by Jorge Viegas, president of the International Motorcycling Federation, who guaranteed that the race should be repeated next year despite the contract with Dorna – a company that promotes the World Cup – three races over five years, in a prospect of alternating with a Spanish circuit.
“In principle, it will continue next year. This year, if all goes well, we’ll be a record of Grands Prix on the calendar, it’s 21. Maybe next year, 22, it’s not confirmed yet. But that will be the limit. Everyone likes this circuit, this surroundings. It’s a very different circuit from the others and the riders like it. Then there are financial conditions to keep the race and I hope the Portuguese Grand Prix continues for many good years. Obviously, he will do what he can to help make it happen in the first place”, explained Viegas on the sidelines of his career of the year to be with Valentino Rossi’s race, which ended last season and will feature in the boxes own team, the VR46 Racing Team, throughout the weekend.
On the weekend when Miguel Oliveira returned to the top 10 and climbed to the place of the general classification of the World Cup, the president of the Federation assured that he is “not at all worried about the sporting future” of the Portuguese pilot – who ends his contract with what he does not have. is “not at all worried about the sporting future” of the Portuguese rider to KTM at the end of the season and still does not have a final duration. “The only thing I know is that he will have no problem staying in MotoGP, whether with KTM or another brand. He’s a responsive rider, a good mountain tuner, he’s beautiful”, concluded Jorge while Viegas.
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