Liberty, which has owned F1’s business rights since 2017, introduced at the beginning of April that it had acquired an 86% possession stake of Dorna Sports activities and MotoGP in a deal valued at €4.2 billion.
Following this, MotoGP Dorna sporting director Carlos Ezpeleta mentioned his organisation was “not ruling out” the presumably of subsequent future shared race weekends with F1.
On the latest Japanese Grand Prix, Motorsport.com requested Mercedes driver Hamilton – famously a MotoGP fan who swapped rides with legendary rider Valentino Rossi throughout the Italian’s closing racing years – if he would welcome mixed F1 and MotoGP occasions.
“I did not actually assume lots about it, [but] clearly I learn the headlines about it,” he replied. “I feel Liberty has accomplished an incredible job with Formulation 1, clearly the worth of the factor [rising since 2017]. So, I feel they will do an awesome job with MotoGP.
“It is thrilling as a result of I really like MotoGP. It will be epic if we will have them on the identical weekend.”
Hamilton then joked “possibly I may do a race in MotoGP and race a Formulation 1 automotive on the identical weekend – that will be actually cool”, earlier than including that such a scenario could be “not possible”.
The concept of shared F1 and MotoGP occasions are understood to be unlikely within the quick time period and would solely work at bigger venues the place the 2 classes already race – such because the Austin observe the place MotoGP is racing this weekend – somewhat than F1’s many new avenue tracks.
Lewis Hamilton, Yamaha MotoGP YZR-M1, Valentino Rossi, MotoGP YZR-M1
Photograph by: Monster Vitality
In the identical session the place he confronted the media at Suzuka, Hamilton was additionally requested if his pursuits away from F1 at the moment are extra necessary to him given the challenges his Mercedes squad is dealing with because it strives to return to difficult for grand prix victories.
Hamilton insisted his primary focus, one which “retains me up at night time”, was on Mercedes and aiming to battle for wins earlier than he leaves to race for Ferrari in 2025.
“I feel finally in case you dwell on tough instances, then there’s just one approach you are going,” he mentioned.
“I feel it is actually good to have the ability to unplug, reset and reset your focus and your targets shifting forwards. And so, I’ve a couple of of those different issues.
“However nonetheless the final word factor that retains me up at night time is, ‘when are we going to be combating for wins once more?’
“‘What can I do completely different? What can I do higher within the automotive? How can I enhance in qualifying? How can I ship extra for the staff? What completely different set-up issues can we take?’
“These issues nonetheless preserve you up. However we win and we lose as a staff. We’re very united. Everybody’s working extremely arduous, so we simply bought to proceed at it.”
