The legendary Spa-Fraౠncorchamps circuit is studying the possibility of a 🅠return to the MotoGP calendar.

Spa hosted the Belgian motorcycle grand prix from 1949 to 1990 and new circuit director Nathalie Maillet revealed prelimin꧅ary talks have taken place over a future event for the modern MotoGP four-strokes.

"I want to get some big events like MotoGP. I recently spent a day in Madrid to discuss with the MotoGP organisers [Dorna]," Maillet told . "Bradley Smith rode🌞 a 500cc bike l🀅ast summer at Spa.

"I am going to study the amenities needed to welcome back bikes - organising both Formula 1 and MotoGP🐽 - more deeply this year. Notably the level of profitability and economic return for the region.

"It [MotoGP] would n🔯ot be until 2020. I am aiming for the long term."

Former grand prix racer Didier Dღe Radigues, who won his home 250cc ro🍃und at Spa in 1990, added:

"If the project succeeds, it would be just fantastic! The Spa layout contrasts with the other sanit🧜ised circuits of today, most of which are created by the same des🌺igners.

"F♛or a motorcycle rider, Spa is one of the circuits which gives the most pleasure. It would quickly forge a special place in the calendar and bec𝔉ome as mythical as for Formula 1.

"On the straight following Raidillon the riders would probably reach a maximum speed app🤡roaching 350km/h, as at Mugello or Sepang for example, but it is the long fast corners ไthat would make Spa so special."

But he also warned: "♍2020 seems to me very opt💫imistic..."