“Last Saturday we started to see some problems with some nationalities coming to Qatar. Then we started to consider that. We are lucky that Moto2 and Moto3 test was the week before, so everyone was here. This made it easy to have the two races we will have here. This is something that we decided from the beginning with the Losail International Circuit, the Qatari Federation and the government of Qatar to do the Moto2 and Moto3 races, with Asia Talent Cup, also. Later we were discussing day by day, and this was a large number of conversations between Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon, we were discussing different possibilities, until Sunday morning everything was more or less okay, people from Italy were able to arrive in Doha during the day, then suddenly in the middle of the day, and because the situation in Europe changed, that changed the situation here.

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