Copyright 2003, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

FIM has released its provisional 2004 MotoGP World Championship.

The schedule does not include a U.S. round, as reported earlier this month.

The Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka is listed as “to be confirmed” presumably due to the pending alteration and homologation of the Casio Triangle chicane.

The current chicane layout, as used during the recent Suzuka 8-Hours World Endurance race, will not be approved, according to FIM’s Claude Danis.

“I will not accept this chicane anymore. For next year, they have to change the chicane,” Danis, the official FIM circuit inspector, told Roadracingworld.com on August 2.


Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix
2004 provisional Calendar

April 4 – Suzuka, Japan (tbc)
April 18 – Welkom, South Africa
May 2 – Jerez, Spain
May 16 – Le Mans, France
May 30 – Mugello, Italy
June 13 – Catalunya, Spain
June 26* – Assen, Netherlands
July 11 – Donington Park, Great Britain
July 18 – Sachsenring, Germany
July 31* – Rio, Brazil
August 22 – Brno, Czech Republic
September 5 – Estoril, Portugal
September 19 – Motegi, Japan
October 2* – Qatar, Qatar
October 10 – Sepang, Malaysia
October 17 – Phillip Island, Australia
October 31 – Valencia, Spain

Tbc – to be confirmed

* – Saturday Race