MotoGP Qatar race to be run on Monday Sunday, 12 April 2009
A rare rainstorm at the Losail International Circuit on Sunday evening saw the first MotoGP race of the year put back to Monday at 9pm local time.
After the season-opening Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar was interrupted by rain on Sunday evening the MotoGP race had to be postponed and will now be run on Monday evening at 9pm local time, with an additional warm-up session beforehand at 6.30pm.
After shortened 250cc and 125cc races earlier in the evening the heavy rainstorm in the Arabian desert at 11pm on Sunday evening made it unsafe for the MotoGP riders to go out onto the 5.380km floodlit circuit.
Neither Eurosport or the BBC have updated their tv listings as yet but i would like to think that the BBC will have to show it seeing as they are officially televising the series. Eurosport do have a 10pm slot already in place which i would assume was to show a replay of the race so could put it in there.
We’ll be out this evening at Foxes Diner (Biker’s cafe) so will watch it on eurosports version of iplayer later. £3.99 for a month…unlimited access to all sports!
BBC Sport apparently offered Eurosport a one-off contract to show it live as they knew they couldn’t do it themselves. Sensible thinking from the Beeb, whatever next?
