Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta has not dominated out the opportunity of MotoGP internet hosting races on a few of the avenue circuits featured on the Method 1 calendar.
MotoGP is at a pivotal second following the acquisition of its promoter Dorna Sports activities by Liberty Media, the identical media firm that owns F1 outright.
The transfer has naturally generated loads of anticipation round the opportunity of each collection using synergies and rising nearer collectively. For years, many individuals have mused about the possibility of F1 and MotoGP hosting a joint race weekend in the future, even earlier than the 2 collection got here below the identical possession.
Whereas that is still nothing greater than an concept as of now, Ezpeleta spent the previous weekend attending F1’s self-promoted Las Vegas Grand Prix and was stuffed with reward of the present Liberty Media put collectively, telling Spanish broadcast DAZN: “When it comes to spectacle, what they do is unimaginable.”
Requested about the opportunity of MotoGP internet hosting a race in the midst of a serious metropolis, just like F1’s glamorous Vegas occasion, Ezpeleta stated he was open to the thought, so long as security of riders might be ensured.
“Now we have no drawback racing on avenue circuits; the one factor we’d like is run-off areas, and in Las Vegas it’s tough to have them,” he stated.
“However there are some F1 avenue layouts that we may use. For us, security is an important facet. Since we took cost of the championship in 1992, that has been our dedication to the riders, and we is not going to chill out on that.”
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Ezpeleta added that the Indonesian Grand Prix is held on what’s framed as a partial avenue circuit. “Theoretically, Mandalika is city, and we race there.”
In the previous few many years, and much more so after Liberty’s takeover of F1 in 2017, the collection has more and more shifted in the direction of avenue circuits, with the intention of turning grands prix into Tremendous Bowl-style spectacles.
This yr’s F1 calendar options six bonafide avenue circuits (Melbourne, Jeddah, Baku Monaco, Singapore, Las Vegas), two semi-street circuits (Montreal and Miami) and two extra metropolis races on everlasting tracks (Mexico and Abu Dhabi). Madrid shall be added to the listing subsequent yr.
5 everlasting F1 circuits already host MotoGP yearly: Losail, Austin, Barcelona, the Purple Bull Ring and Silverstone. That listing may develop additional if MotoGP returns to the Shanghai Worldwide Circuit, though this isn’t anticipated earlier than 2027.
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