F1 Owners Liberty Media buys Moto GP

[Supersam83]

I've not seen it mentioned here but as it's F1-related I just wanted people's thoughts on this:

F1 Owners Liberty Media have purchased Moto GP.

https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2024/04/01/liberty-...

They plan to create a few dual weekends with F1 and Moto GP at the same tracks.

[Sixpackpert]

That was being discussed last year.

MotoGP is fantastic to watch, the coverage and the format is absolutely fine as it is, I hope Liberty don’t interfere too much. Luckily street circuits have been ruled out!

[Sandpit Steve]

Events with both cars and bikes could be very interesting, although somewhat hectic.

I’ve never really got into MotoGP, but the highlights I’ve seen have always been good with lots of close racing.

How will they make it work commercially though, given that the bikes can attract a massive audience on their own and the F1 is almost always a sellout? Perhaps they start in Bahrain or Qatar, where there’s room to expand and both cars and bikes run already?

[GlobalRacer]

Sad that CVC couldn't own both primarily because of the effect it would have on free to air TV. Now there is so little of it in Europe it doesn't matter for Liberty owning both.

[Supersam83]

Will we see things like:

- Las Vegas Moto GP races
- Harley-Davidson create a Moto GP team
- Red Bull, Aramco, and BMW Moto GP teams
- Anything else from the F1 world switching over to Moto GP

[KobayashiMaru86]

Ride To Survive

[stinkyspanner]

Will they ban grid girls though, and the corridor of clunge?

[Sixpackpert]

stinkyspanner said:

Will they ban grid girls though, and the corridor of clunge?

Apparently not, which is a good thing. Plenty of the grid girls were against the F1 ban.

[Sandpit Steve]

Sixpackpert said:

stinkyspanner said:

Will they ban grid girls though, and the corridor of clunge?

Apparently not, which is a good thing. Plenty of the grid girls were against the F1 ban.

Of course they were. If I could earn £500 a day for standing around and looking pretty, I’d be against the banning of the grid girls too!

(I can genuinely see both sides of this one, and am a huge fan of getting women involved in motorsport as competitors, as well as enjoying the eye candy on the grid. It doesn’t need to be either/or.)

[mk1coopers]

stinkyspanner said:

Will they ban grid girls though

For F1 everywhere, except when we get to the US, as Cheerleading is different, if that is the case, can we have Cheerleaders at every race then, as they could be male or female.

[Adrian W]

Stand back and watch them fk it up, maybe F1 cars v GP bikes

[Supersam83]

Adrian W said:

Stand back and watch them fk it up, maybe F1 cars v GP bikes

Well in the 7 years they have owned F1, it doesn't seem to be doing that bad on paper. (The racing could always be better, but that's a different topic)

[richhead]

since they have been involved in F1, in my opinion its gone massively downhill, so i fear for motogp.