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 under the same owne✤rship with Liberty Media.

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

But Dornaဣ CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta insists there are no immediate plans.

"Well, it's somܫething that at the moment, for obvious reasons, is not in the immediate plans,” Ezpeleta told&nb💜sp;.

“And i🦩t's not something that we are workin🐈g on, but it's not something that we are ruling out for the medium-term future either.

“But having said that, the reality is that it makes limited sense, because at the end of the day we hꦿave some events with our own fan base, which is a different f♐an 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 together in the same event, in the same weekend, has diffic🍃ulties and the return on investment is not very clear today💎.

“Then you also✅ have problems with the different spo𒉰nsors, the TV cameras, so it is a project, or it would be a rather complicated project, let's say.

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

The obvious difficult🥂y is the safety aspect of w🦩hichever circuit host the joint-race weekend.

Optimising the sa⛎fety protocols for both bikes and cars woꩲuld no mean feat.

Ezpeleta also revealed that bringing in an attendance large enough to cover the costs of hosting the joint-ra🦄ce weekend would be problema𒊎tic.

Res💜tricted 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 F1 in 2016, acquired 86% of Dorna a🥃nd MotoGP this week.

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