Inje Speedium South Korea for MotoGP calendar in the future? Agree?

TheriusVR46 · Dec 9, 2024

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In South Korea the MotoGP popularity is falling behind Formula 1 and MotoGP must resist the South Korean popularity by persuading Inje Speedium to MotoGP calendar in order to boost MotoGP popularity in South Korea. Yeongam indeedly dangerous for MotoGP because of most sections that directly no run-offs. Do you agree?

misfit · Dec 10, 2024

That photo almost looks AI generated. The track seems so isolated like it's been engrafted into a hilly landscape shot.

mikesbytes · Dec 10, 2024

misfit said:
That photo almost looks AI generated. The track seems so isolated like it's been engrafted into a hilly landscape shot.

Agree. The open air stand looks like solar panels

Sennas_Caress · Wednesday at 2:26 AM

The track's official site

It's real, unless someone also bothered to make a fake homepage.

Looking at the run offs, and the possibility to expand the track, I'd say there is no chance of any serious motorbike racing on this here track.

misfit · Thursday at 10:54 AM

Sennas_Caress said:
The track's official site

It's real, unless someone also bothered to make a fake homepage.

Looking at the run offs, and the possibility to expand the track, I'd say there is no chance of any serious motorbike racing on this here track.

I guess they do not expect a lot of attendees per event then?

AnnoyingTwit · Sunday at 4:42 AM

Sennas_Caress said:
The track's official site

It's real, unless someone also bothered to make a fake homepage.

Looking at the run offs, and the possibility to expand the track, I'd say there is no chance of any serious motorbike racing on this here track.

I'm not able to look at tracks and know if they are suitable or not.

Even so, I was surprised that you said that there's not enough run-offs here. It seems to my ignorant eyes to have quite a bit of run off in many places.

Could you expand more on the track's unsuitability? I'm not doubting what you say - I'm only trying to understand.

JFM01 · Sunday at 8:55 AM

It is real, Super GT or Super Formula raced there or at least planned a race. TCR also once planned to run there.

Don't see Korea joining MotoGP though. It's the land of Samsung and Hyundai but I can't think of anything on the motorcycle side.
The schedule is pretty saturated as far as Asian races go.

AnnoyingTwit · Sunday at 11:10 AM

JFM01 said:
It is real, Super GT or Super Formula raced there or at least planned a race. TCR also once planned to run there.

Don't see Korea joining MotoGP though. It's the land of Samsung and Hyundai but I can't think of anything on the motorcycle side.
The schedule is pretty saturated as far as Asian races go.

Indonesia and Thailand don't have major motorcycle brands of their own, but that doesn't stop MotoGP being popular. South Korea could be a growth area for MotoGP, if they can pull it off. 'could be'.

Sennas_Caress · 2024-12-16T02:42:21-0800

If the track is made to be raced clockwise, the first corner would need to have gravel pit, from the pictures, what I can see is asphalt.
Same with the first 180 degree corner as well.
The next corner, the one above 200 degrees, on the right hand side, has only a thin strip of land before something that looks like a solid construction of sorts.
Then about three corners on, you have a 90-ish degree corner that is very close to something that looks like a wall.

Maybe its the colours that is a bit alien to me, I miss more gravel and space along the racetrack.

JFM01 · 2024-12-16T08:00:04-0800

AnnoyingTwit said:
Indonesia and Thailand don't have major motorcycle brands of their own, but that doesn't stop MotoGP being popular. South Korea could be a growth area for MotoGP, if they can pull it off. 'could be'.

It could be, but this thread is purely speculative, just like the one the same member published about a potential race in Bahrain a year ago.

AnnoyingTwit · 2024-12-17T05:49:09-0800

Sennas_Caress said:
If the track is made to be raced clockwise, the first corner would need to have gravel pit, from the pictures, what I can see is asphalt.
Same with the first 180 degree corner as well.
The next corner, the one above 200 degrees, on the right hand side, has only a thin strip of land before something that looks like a solid construction of sorts.
Then about three corners on, you have a 90-ish degree corner that is very close to something that looks like a wall.

Maybe its the colours that is a bit alien to me, I miss more gravel and space along the racetrack.

Gotcha. Wrong type of run-off. Asphalt will give riders more chance to stay upright, but not slow them down enough. I'm guessing.

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