MotoGP will not return to Argentina next year after the April 🌸14 'To Be Confirmed' place being held open for the event was dropped from the updated schedule.

Last D𝓀ecember a three-year deal was announced for the T♚ermas de R?o Hondo circuit to host an Argentinian MotoGP from 2013.

However on June 20th, 2012, the Spanish government advised against travel to Argentina for any teams or riders sponsored by Repsol due to "safety rea🐻sons", following a dispute between the company and the Argentinean government.

With the travel warning still i𒊎n place on November 18, the deadline for Dorna to officially propose ⛦the 2013 MotoGP calendar to the FIM, the event has been postponed until 2014.

But jღust two days later, on November 20, the Spanish government informed Dorna that its advice had changed and the travelও warning withdrawn!

However "the time for the calendar presentation had already expired and the🦩refore, there was no possibility to ꦅinclude a new MotoGP event," read a statement from Dorna.

"Anyhow, Dorna Sports commits its♈elf to include Gran Premio de la Rep?blica Argentina on the 2014 Calendar and onwards, to be approv๊ed by FIM subject to the homologation of the track, which presumably shall take place within the first quarter of 2013."

The last Argentinian motorcycle grand prix was held in 1999 and MotoGP has been absent from South America since the last of th🀅e Brazilian rounds in 2004.

As a result of Argentina's postponement, the opening 2013 event in Qatar 🎶will be held a week later than previously listed, in order to reduce🀅 the gap before what is now the second round of the season at Austin, Texas.

The 2013 calendar is🅷 thus 18 rounds, the same as this season, with the new Austin event replacing Estoril. Jerez remains Subject to Contract.

Updated 2013 MotoGP calendar:

Round 1:7 April Qatar* LosailRound 2: 21 April Americas AustinRound 3: 5 May Spain (STC) JerezRound 4: 19 May France Le MansRound 5: 2 June Italy MugelloRound 6: 16 June Catalunya CatalunyaRound 7: 29 June Netherlands** AssenRound 8: 7 July Germany SachsenringRound 9: 21st July United States***Laguna SecaRound 10: 18 August Indianapolis IndianapolisRound 11: 25 August Czech Republic BrnoRound 12:1 September Great Britain SilverstoneRound 13:15 September San Marino MisanoRound 14:29 September Aragon AragonRound 15:13 October Malaysia SepangRound 16: 20 October Australia Phillip IslandRound 17:27 October Japan MotegiRound 18:10 November Valencia Valencia

* Evening race
** Saturday race
*** Only MotoGP class
(STC) = Subject to Contract