Postponed Qatar race live on motogp.com on Monday night

First MotoGP race of 2009 cancelled due to rain

Sunday, 12 April 2009

A rare rainstorm at the Losail International Circuit on Sunday evening saw the first MotoGP race of the year put back to Monday at 9pm local time.

After the season-opening Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar was interrupted by rain on Sunday evening the MotoGP race had to be postponed and will now be run on Monday evening at 9pm local time, with an additional warm-up session beforehand at 6.30pm.

After shortened 250cc and 125cc races earlier in the evening the heavy rainstorm in the Arabian desert at 11pm on Sunday evening made it unsafe for the MotoGP riders to go out onto the 5.380km floodlit circuit.

Live Timing and Live Video will be available for Monday's MotoGP warm-up and race. Live Broadcast will start at 18.25 local time for the warm-up session and at 20.30 local time for the race.

A Hi-Res VideoPass to watch the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar is available for €12.95 on motogp.com. Hi-Res and standard VideoPasses for both the opening race and the entire 2009 MotoGP World Championship season are available in the VideoPasses section.