Motorcycling-Grand Prix returns to Indonesia after 25-year absence


  • Cycling
  • Thursday, 17 Mar 2022

Motorists take part in a parade at the main road, ahead of the Indonesian Grand Prix (MotoGP) that will be held this weekend at Pertamina Mandalika International Street Circuit on Lombok island, in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

MANDALIKA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia will host a sellout crowd this weekend for its first motorcycle grand prix event in a quarter of a century, as MotoGP comes to the resort island of Lombok for the second race of the season.

Indonesia has reassured organisers that the track on the 4.3 kilometre (2.67 mile) Mandalika International Street Circuit is race-ready, with repairs completed following complaints during testing last month about dirt, rocks and cracks putting riders in danger.

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