Dorna’s Carmelo Ezpeleta tells the truth about sale rumour to F1’s Liberty Media

Reports in Spain claim that F1 owners Liberty 🐟Media want to acquire MotoGP rights holder 💞Dorna

Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin, Valencia MotoGP, 24 November
Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin, Valencia MotoGP, 24 November

Carmelo Ezpeleta, the CEO of Do🎀rna, has responded to reports that MotoGP’s rights holder could be sold.

Formula 1 owners Liberty Media are in talks to acqui𝓰re Dorna, Spain-based  repജorted.

Amazon, Netflix ওa🅺nd Disney are also interested, the report claims.

Ezpeleta has now given his side of the story.

He told : "The majority shareholders of Dorna are investment funds, which buy things to sell🎐 them.

“We have always been for sale, from day one.

“We have been 𓃲with Bridgepoint since 2006 and CPP sinc🗹e 2013.

“There are always approaches and everything.

⭕🍷“That's it. For now, that's it. We're the same as we always were."

Bridgepoint is a private equit🍷y firm, CPP is an investment fund.

Liberty Media bought the rights to F1 in 2017.

They are now worth $18.2 billion, making them the world’s most valuable sports empire according to ༺ last year.

F1 has enjoyed a period of added popula💯ri💎ty since the US-based owners took control.

The Netflix series ‘Drive To Survive’ is the most notabl𓄧e exam🔴ple of Liberty Media’s ability to drive interest in their product.

The F1 season begins this weekend in Bahrain.

The MotoGP 2024 campaign st♔arts on March 8 in Qatar.

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