Ask anybody in Europe to name ten top European cities and usually Barcelona will make it in there . Ask any number of fans in MotoGP™ to name a top European-based MotoGP™ venue and the same thing will happen . Ask a veteran fan of WorldSBK for a top European round of WorldSBK that is still on the calendar in 2021 and you may also see an almost completely new WorldSBK circuit near Barcelona get into the top ten . And why not ? After last year ’ s incredibly memorable and dramatic first WorldSBK weekend at the 4.627km long circuit , why not indeed . A leading edge track when it was designed in 1991 it first hosted a MotoGP™ race in 1992 . And every season since . The Barcelona circuit is a mix of modern touches and what can be thought of as modern classic aspects , given we are now in firmly in the 2020s . The big main straight is overlooked by an unmistakeable grandstand , the curves of it as synonymous as the layout of the track itself . In theory Catalunya is a flat circuit , in reality there are more dips and horizons from the riders ’ point of view than it looks from TV pictures , but in all it is a real test for any rider . Tell me that entry to the first two or three corners is not very reminiscent to the first section at Portimao ? Although we know which one came first . What it does not resemble is the track that it - in some ways - the current Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya replaced , which was the street circuit at Montjuic Park . Home to the famous 24 Hours race until safety concerns say it fall into history , Barcelona - Catalunya is a modern era race circuit , yet a worthy