MotoGP announces 2015 calendar

MotoGP has announced its 2015 calendar, with the race order mirroring this year's schedule.

The only change is that the British Grand Prix returns to Donington Park from Silverstone in a one-year stand-in deal while future host the Circuit of Wales is constructed. The British round retains its late-August calendar position.

The other minor tweak occurs in the early part of the season, where the gaps between the opening trio of flyaway races in Qatar, America and Argentina are closed up, with a two-week pause following before the European stretch begins with the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez at the start of May as usual.

The calendar remains at 18 rounds, with no reprise of the plans to add a Brazilian GP at Brasilia. This event had been scheduled for 2014, but was dropped at the start of the year.

2015 MOTOGP SCHEDULE

March 29 Qatar GP (Losail)
April 12 GP of the Americas (Circuit of The Americas)
April 19 Argentinean GP (Termas de Rio Hondo)
May 3 Spanish GP (Jerez)
May 17 French GP (Le Mans)
May 31 Italian GP (Mugello)
June 14 Catalunya GP (Barcelona)
June 27 Dutch GP (Assen)
July 12 German GP (Sachsenring)
August 9 Indianapolis GP (Indianapolis)
August 16 Czech GP (Brno)
August 30 British GP (Donington Park)
September 13 San Marino GP (Misano)
September 27 Aragon GP (Aragon)
October 11 Japanese GP (Motegi)
October 18 Australian GP (Phillip Island)
October 25 Malaysian GP (Sepang)
November 8 Valencia GP (Valencia)