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Ironically, precisely because engine development is frozen this year. So what can we expect from the next three days? In contrast to previous years, there will be a lot of new parts on display. But he will race this year, and his return will probably be sooner rather than later. And it seems extremely unlikely he will participate in the first two races in Qatar either. He will not participate in either of the MotoGP tests. Marc Márquez will not be present at the test, the Repsol Honda rider still in the midst of the rehabilitation process from the broken right arm he suffered 8 months ago at Jerez. The entire MotoGP grid will join for two days of action on Saturday and Sunday, and the prelude to the 2021 MotoGP season will be well and truly underway.Įntire MotoGP grid? Not quite. The first official MotoGP test of the year kicks off with the shakedown test for the test riders, and an extra day of riding for the three true MotoGP rookies, Luca Marini, Enea Bastianini, and Jorge Martin. The Covid-19 pandemic has demanded the very utmost of human endurance and organizational ingenuity to try to have even the slightest semblance of normality.īut on Friday it starts, at last. But as we have learned the very hard way, these are anything but normal circumstances. Under normal circumstances, MotoGP bikes would have been on track in Sepang a month ago.