MOTOGP: Pre-season testing details set

Sepang, Phillip Island and Qatar will again host MotoGP's main pre-season tests in 2017.

A largely unchanged schedule for winter testing has been released, to accompany the already announced provisional 2017 MotoGP calendar.

Teams will test at Valencia on Nov. 15-16 after this year's season finale, including the first running for Jorge Lorenzo with Ducati, Maverick Vinales with Yamaha and KTM's first chance to run its 2017 line-up of Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaro.

The window for private testing will close on Nov. 30, with running resuming with the first of 2017's sessions at Sepang on Jan. 30-Feb. 1.

Phillip Island will host the second test on Feb. 15-17, before the final official running at Qatar on March 10-12, two weeks before it hosts the first race of the new campaign.

In the biggest change to the schedule, the Phillip Island and Qatar tests are now split by three weeks, one more week than in 2016.

MOTOGP 2017 PRE-SEASON TESTS

Sepang, January 30-February 1
Phillip Island, February 15-17
Losail, March 10-12

Originally on Autosport.com