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3 of the Best MotoGP Races You Should Attend Before You Die
Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands are home to some of the best MotoGP events in the world. No racing fan should should go with attending these 3 best MotoGP races.
Assen
The Track
This famous Dutch circuit has been on the Grand Prix calendar since 1949 and the villages around the current facility hosted the first 17.75 mile TT race held in the Netherlands back in 1925. A high performance race machine carried a 55 mph average speed back then, so Assen is considered the granddaddy of racetracks. It has been there through the entire evolution of motorcycles and the men who raced them.
The Experience
Flat, sweeping and fast, the Assen TT is known by gear heads and moto maniacs as the “Cathedral of Speed.” The 2.83-mile course is a very popular place that hosts World Superbike, British Superbike, Moto GP, and IDM (the International German Championship) every year. It also hosts club racers and track day goers from all across Europe.
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Come prepared to mingle with over100,000 friends if you plan on ever visiting Assen over a GP weekend. Fans travel from the UK and Northern Europe to watch their home GP. Assen is the closest GP track to Scandinavia, and besides Donnington, the Brits have no other options besides Assen— unless they want to fly to Spain or Italy.
During a GP weekend, the A28 highway that runs east of the circuit is the primary artery into Assen, and it swells beyond capacity with thousands of motorcycles en-route to the track—especially on Sunday. On one race day in 2014 the rain was torrential. It was hairy in a car to navigate, yet it wasn’t a problem for thousands of motorcyclists. It was just plain mad seeing all of them out there in two inches of standing water.
The view from turn one (Haarbocht corner) provides a great view looking across the track to turn two and three. It's also a prime location to watch the action unfold at the end of the start finish and onto the straight. De Strubben corner (turn five) is a hairpin with lots of action that you don’t necessarily get to see on television. The Stekkenwal section—before turn eight—has up close and personal seating above the track.
If you’re a motorsports fan and you know some history, watching any event at Assen is a special experience.
Mugello
The Track
Nestled in the Tuscan hills 30km (18.64 miles) north east of Florence, the l'Autodromo del Mugello is gorgeous and is the jewel of Italian motorsports in that respect. It’s perhaps not as historically significant as Monza or Imola; however, Mugello Circuit—comprised of the 15 turns and 3.259 miles in length—has been a regular host to the Italian Grand Prix since 1994.
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The circuit was constructed in 1973 and opened in 1974, a few kilometers from the original road course that was built in 1914. Ferrari has owned Mugello since 1988 and through several renovations since its original construction back in 1914, it’s now known as one of the safest and fastest racetracks on the planet.
