Silverstone have announced that no motorcycle trackdays will be running for 2024

Silverstone racing circuit have announced that they will be running no motorcycle trackdays in 2024, currently leaving the British MotoGP round at the beginning of August as their only two-wheeled event this year.

In a statement on their website, the UK’s premier racing venue said: “We’re taking a pit stop! In 2024, we’re temporarily hitting the brakes on bike trackdays to prepare for a sensational comeback in 2025.”

This pause also includes Ducati Track Days events, which ran at Silverstone and Donington Park.

The statement continued: “Stay with us as we craft an experience that’ll put you into high gear on our legendary tracks. While you wait sign up below to be the first to hear any updates.”

Car trackdays will continue to run as normal though, with events beginning on Tuesday, 30 January with a £399 open pitlane day for four-wheelers around the Grand Prix circuit layout.

Managing Director of Silverstone, Stuart Pringle further told MCN: “We’re currently reviewing the bike trackday offering and will be relaunching within the next year.

“We haven’t taken this decision lightly as we know that there will be disappointment for some of our customers,” he continued.

“However, we were finding that our existing bike trackdays product was not proving as popular as we needed them to be, so we’re going to take some time to look at the needs of our customers, researching the options and then we’ll be bringing back track action for our two-wheel customers,” confirmed Pringle.

Alongside this, Silverstone will host minimal motorcycle racing this year too, with only the British MotoGP round currently in the calendar for 2-4 August.

The British Superbike championship (BSB) used Silverstone’s ‘National’ layout to begin their season in 2023, however have now switched to a likely warmer Circuito de Navarra, in northern Spain.

Navarra is owned by MotorSport Vision (MSV), who took charge of the organisational and commercial rights to BSB back in 2008.

But it’s not just national level racers missing out, with major club championships also cutting ties. This includes the British Motorcycle Racing Club (known as Bemsee), who last ran on Silverstone’s National layout in 2022.

“I would like to go back, but it’s down to price, and I think you’ll find that that’s the same with any other club,” CEO Mike Dommett told MCN. “We found that the circuit hire rates were more competitive at other tracks. There was some toing and froing”.

“In the current environment it’s too big a risk for a club like ours whose [business] is based on entry fee revenue,” he continued. “There’s some history with Bemsee and Silverstone that’s for sure – going back to the ’50s and ’60s.”