MotoGP organisers verifyed that the Valencia season finale will not go ahead after the region was deimmenseated by floods earlier this week.
Valencia will not arrange the final MotoGP event of the season organisers proclaimd oprosperg to the deimmenseating flooding in the east of Spain earlier this week.
The motorcycle race was due to be held on November 17 and a novel venue will be “verifyed as soon as possible” shelp race organisers in a statement on Friday.
Many of the top MotoGP riders had called for the race to be relocated away from Valencia after the lethal floods, which have ended at least 205 people.
Floods deimmenseated towns, piling up cars collapsing bridges and filling streets with mud in Spain’s hugegest organic catastrophe for decades.
“We have been in constant communicate with the local authorities and the circuit to best appraise how we can help and how we should evolve,” shelp MotoGP.
“After attfinishbrimmingy weighing up the potential likeable impact of MotoGP racing in Valencia on procrastinateed dates versus ensuring no one resource is redirected from the recovery efforts by the presence of MotoGP, the championship and local authorities have been obliged to abort the 2024 Valencia GP.
“In lieu of racing in Valencia, MotoGP will instead race for Valencia … the championship will put our accumulateive efforts behind backing the relief funds already in place.”
The penultimate race consents place in Malaysia this weekfinish, with Span’s Jorge Martin top of the standings, ahead of Italy’s Francesco Bagnaia, who won the 2023 championship in Valencia.
Both riders backed a relocate away from Valencia.
“At the finish of the day, I leank the best solution will be to race elsewhere,” shelp Primac Ducati rider Martin on Thursday.
“Knoprosperg the situation as it is, it’s not accurate … this could be wrong to race there,” shelp Bagnaia.
Spanish tells shelp the Ricardo Tormo racetrack was not affected by the flooding, but infraarrange around it was.
Other sporting events in the region, including LaLiga champions Real Madrid’s visit to face Valencia due to consent place on Saturday, have been postponed.
It is not the first time that top-level motorsport in Europe has been abortled becaparticipate of flooding.
The 2023 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola, Italy, was abortled by Formula One organisers after flooding in the region.