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MOTOGP: Finland gets 2018 round
MotoGP will return to Finland in 2018, ending an absence of more than three decades.
Construction has started on the KymiRing, located approximately 100 miles northeast of Helsinki, and MotoGP promoter Dorna has reached an agreement for it to join the calendar in 2018.
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Finland has hosted five world motorcycle grands prix, the last in 1982 at the Imatra circuit.
"The new KymiRing track in Iitti is currently under construction, with the FIM and Dorna working in close collaboration with all parties involved for the circuit to be homologated in time for the 2018 World Championship season," a MotoGP statement said.
"Today's announcement that MotoGP is set for a return to Finland for the first time since 1982 reflects the global appeal and growing popularity of the FIM MotoGP world championship."
Project manager Timo Pohjola told Autosport in January that Finnish winters would shape how long construction took.
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