€8m deal overrides previous contract to secure a MotoGP circuit’s future
A good idea for MotoGP to abandon the idea of rot༺at🌱ing some circuits?

Aragon will feature for at least three years in a row on the MotoGP calendar after a new deal was struck.
An €8m agreement was ෴struck to guarantee a MotoGP round at Aragon in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Previously, the circuit was only due to host a race three tim🅰es over five years as part of a rotation of Spanish locations.
Work began on ♉April 1 to resurface the track at Motorland, one of the keys to the new deal.
The FIM demanded the kerbs to be replaced at Turns 7, 10, 1💦5 and 17.
ꦆTh♓e work, due to be completed by June, will cost the local authorities an extra €6.2m.
But research conducted by the Aragon Institute of Development suggests that the economic imp𒀰act of hosting a MotoGP round is worth €47m to the local area.
The 202🌜4 round at Aragon is set for August 30-S𝓰eptember 1.
Aragon is an autonomous region of north-east Spain, bet♐ween the city of Valencia and the neighbouring country of Andorraဣ.
Nobody has won more MotoGP𝔉 grand⛄s prix at Aragon that Marc Marquez.
The six-time victor won in 🐈2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
The circuit didn't host a race𓆉 last year. In 2022, it was won by Gresini's Enea Bastianini during his breakthrough campaign.
And the year p🌄rior, Francesco Bagnaia was victorious for Ducati.

James was a sports journalist at Sky 💟Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, tꦕo football, to F1.