On Monday 1 April, Liberty introduced it had acquired 86% possession of Dorna Sports activities and MotoGP as a part of a deal valued at €4.2 billion.
With each F1 and MotoGP now underneath Liberty’s umbrella, talks of a possible joint race weekend for the 2 sequence has surfaced once more.
In an unique first interview with Ezpeleta following Monday’s announcement, with Motorsport.com’s Spanish MotoGP podcast Por Orejas, the manager says a joint occasion isn’t out of the query however isn’t one thing being thought of within the brief time period.
“Effectively, it is one thing that in the mean time, for apparent causes, isn’t within the speedy plans and it is not one thing that we’re engaged on, nevertheless it’s not one thing that we’re ruling out for the medium-term future both,” Ezpeleta stated.
“However having stated that, the truth is that it makes restricted sense, as a result of on the finish of the day we have now some occasions with our personal fan base, which is a special fan base in most locations to the System 1 fan base.
“They promote, they promote out in lots of circuits and so will we, so getting all of us collectively in the identical occasion, in the identical weekend, has difficulties and the return on funding isn’t very clear in the present day.
“You then even have issues with the completely different sponsors, the TV cameras, so it’s a venture, or it could be a slightly difficult venture, as an instance.
“Then once more, there are a variety of circuits that may run each [series], however there usually are not so many, so it’s a venture that isn’t discarded, however we’re not engaged on it both.”
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The way forward for World Superbikes underneath the brand new Liberty deal is unclear at this stage, however in the meanwhile Ezpeleta says there is no such thing as a plans for MotoGP and the production-based sequence to host any shared occasions.
“It is one thing that has been talked about for a very long time and the truth, being very direct, I have no idea the profit,” he added.
“Clearly it could make publicity to Superbike extra related, MotoGP I believe would have little to do there.
“There may be fairly an essential crossover of followers and I do not know if the individuals who go to Montmelo for Superbikes… I believe additionally they go to MotoGP.
“It would not make plenty of sense with each collectively as a result of you aren’t going to draw extra individuals and you must pay for each issues, Superbike and MotoGP, so it would not make a lot sense in the mean time.”
Extra reporting by Oriol Puigdemont and German Garcia Casanova
