Will Liberty Media stage joint-race weekends for F1 and MotoGP?

"It's not something that we are ruling out for the medium-term"
(L to R): Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull Racing Reserve and Third Driver with Fabio Quartararo (FRA) MotoGP Motorcycle
(L to R): Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull Racing Reserve and Third Driver with Fabio…

F1 and MotoGP now fall unde♊r the same ownership with Liberty Media.

It means the dream scenario ꧂of a joint-race weekend between the world’s premier two wheel and four wheel series is a possibility.

But Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta insists there are 🐻no immediate plans.

"Well, it's something that at the moment, ⭕for obvious reasons, is not in the immediate plans,” Ezpeleta told .

“And it's not something that we are woꦗrking on, but it's not something that we ar🅰e ruling out for the medium-term future either.

“But hav💖ing said that, the reality is that it makes limited sense, because at the end of the day we have some events with our owꦉn fan base, which is a different fan base in most places to the Formula 1 fan base.

“They sell, they sell out in many circuits and so do we, so ꧟getting all of us togetಞher in the same event, in the same weekend, has difficulties and the return on investment is not very clear today.

“Then yo🔴u also have problems with the different sponsors, the TV cameras, so it is a project,༺ or it would be a rather complicated project, let's say.

“Then again, there are a numbe𝓀r of circuits that can run both [series], but there are not so many, so it is a project that is not discarded, but we are not working on it either.”

The obvious difficulty is the safety aspect of whichever circuit host the joint-race wee🃏kend.

Optimising the safety protocols for bo꧟th bikes and cars would no mean feat.

Ezpeleta also revealed that bringing in an attendance large enough to cover the c༒osts of hosting the joint-race weekend would be problematic.

Restricted by the maximum attendance of a race circuit, MotoGP and ♉F1 could expect to sell every ticket without each other. Meaning that Liberty Media would be leaving a lot of money on the table, should they choose to put both series onto the same track on the same weekend.

Liberty Media, who bought ꦡF1 in 2016, acquired 86% of Dorna and MotoGP thꦬis week.

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