This week should be the first Indian Grand Prix, but in the past weeks it has been an absolute shitshow and it's not getting any better
Everything and everyone and their mother around the whole event is just making things worse and worse it seems. From fraudulent hotels and shuttle bus companies to visa issues, customs troubles, nonsense bureaucracy, significant worries about basic hygiene facilities and food and, as a nice extra touch....the fact that homologation of the track is scheduled for, I kid you not, the Thursday before the first trainings It's not even sure the track is safe to race on, and that is definitely not a 'done deal'
Tons of team members, including riders, have been refused at their airports. Collin Veijer, for example, is on his way back home from Amsterdam at this moment. KTM has so far received a grand total of 0 visa, as is the case for many other teams.
Mind you, a total of 1500 people need to travel to India, so far not even 100 seem to have been accepted.
At this point, now that most people aren't there yet (mostly because they can't), Dorna really should cancel this and not look to India again for the next 10 years, but with that being a big market that's obviously not going to happen