MotoGP has unveiled the provisional calendar for the final season of its current regulations cycle in 2026.
The 2026 campaign is set to run to a 22-race schedule again, and just one current event is dropping off - the Argentine Grand Prix.
It is being replaced, as already announced, by the return on a five-year deal of the Brazilian Grand Prix in Goiania, a comeback that could well coincide with the premier-class debut of the highly rated Brazilian Moto2 frontrunner Diogo Moreira.
MotoGP had announced earlier this week it plans to return to Argentina in 2027 already, at the Autodromo Oscar y Juan Galvez circuit outside of Buenos Aires, with the track - another former motorcycle grand prix racing venue like Goiania - set to be "fully renovated and updated".
The placement of the Brazil race in the schedule means there will be two weekends off between the Thailand opener and the second race, with the Grand Prix of the Americas in Texas running the weekend immediately after Brazil.
The possibility of the Indian Grand Prix returning next year - as had been suggested once it'd dropped off the calendar - had been floated recently, but hasn't materialised with this announcement.
Instead, the big changes apart from the Argentina-to-Brazil swap are all almost entirely connected to the race order in the European leg.
As already known prior, Silverstone has forfeited a May race date in favour of an August event, its slot now more or less occupied by the Catalan Grand Prix at Barcelona - which is a September round this year.
Brno moves from July to June, and Hungary's Balaton Park event from August to June.
It creates something of a double summer break, with three weekends off between the Sachsenring and Silverstone, then two weekends off between Silverstone and Aragon.
There are no triple-headers but there are eight back-to-backs, and the season concludes on November 22 - a weekend later than this year.
Curiously, Jerez's place on the calendar is currently listed as being "subject to contract". An extension to 2031 for the race was announced earlier this year - so perhaps the deal simply still requires final signatures.
"The structure of the calendar is very similar to 2025," the series' chief sporting officer Carlos Ezpeleta told MotoGP.com. "One of the things that we've spoken to the riders about - the triple-headers, having also a decent summer break, it's not possible every year but I think we've been able to accomplish that for 2026."
Provisional 2026 MotoGP calendar
