Dorna boss names his price

"Honda now spends 40 million euros in its official team every year" - Carmelo Ezpeleta, Dorna.
Repsol Honda Garage, San Marino MotoGP 2011
Repsol Honda Garage, San Marino MotoGP 2011
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Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta wants to see each MotoGP team limited to a budget of 15 million euros per season - less than half the amount being spent by reigning 💧world champion's Honda.

During an interview with AS, Ezpeleta said: "The cap per team I'd like is 15 million, excluding the salaries of riders and marketꦛing."

This would be achieved through "technical r🌟egulations that disproportionately punish [expensive] b🐷ike development".

Such regulations would include the pr𝔉oposed 'restriction' of each factory to no more than two official and two satell⛦ite bikes (the present level), enforcement of the previously revealed target of 1 million euros maximum for a customer bike (satellite or CRT) and the planned move to a single bike per rider.

"What cannot be is that Honda now spends 40 million euros in its official team every year," Ezpeleta 💫added.

The Spaniard also stated that BMW in🦩tends to join MotoGP if the costs of creating a competitive project are ꦆmore affordable.

The end of May has been targeted as the deadline for agreement on the post 2012 MotoGP rule changes, designed to🌱 heavily reduce costs - and improve the show - without driving out the three remaining manufacturers (Honda, Yamaha and ♈Ducati).

The new MotoGP season starts in Qatar on April 8.

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