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Stan the Bat said:
dukeboy749r said:
Turn7 said:
Not an F1 fan personally, so have mixed feelings that a US entertainment company (Liberty Media) has motorcycle racing’s premiere competition ‘best interests’ at heart. 540TORQUES said:
Stan the Bat said:
dukeboy749r said:
Turn7 said:
Not an F1 fan personally, so have mixed feelings that a US entertainment company (Liberty Media) has motorcycle racing’s premiere competition ‘best interests’ at heart. I actually think it’s going to be really good for the sport going forwards
Like or hate F1, you can’t argue that Liberty have made it massive over the last few years, and have brought fans in in their droves
The racing is boring, but that side of things is mainly down to the size of the cars and a rules in place at the tracks, something that would be in place regardless of liberty or not
MotoGP on the other hand, is an exciting product and something, if marketed correctly, can become huge
That can only be good for the sport as it brings more eyes on it, and subsequently more sponsorship to get more riders involved
Like or hate F1, you can’t argue that Liberty have made it massive over the last few years, and have brought fans in in their droves
The racing is boring, but that side of things is mainly down to the size of the cars and a rules in place at the tracks, something that would be in place regardless of liberty or not
MotoGP on the other hand, is an exciting product and something, if marketed correctly, can become huge
That can only be good for the sport as it brings more eyes on it, and subsequently more sponsorship to get more riders involved
Edited by graeme4130 on Saturday 30th March 21:31
graeme4130 said:
I actually think it’s going to be really good for the sport going forwards
Like or hate F1, you can’t argue that Liberty have made it massive over the last few years, and have brought fans in in their droves
The racing is boring, but that side of things is mainly down to the size of the cars and a rules in place at the tracks, something that would be in place regardless of liberty or not
MotoGP on the other hand, is an exciting product and something, if marketed correctly, can become huge
That can only be good for the sport as it brings more eyes on it, and subsequently more sponsorship to get more riders involved
That’s certainly a possibility.Like or hate F1, you can’t argue that Liberty have made it massive over the last few years, and have brought fans in in their droves
The racing is boring, but that side of things is mainly down to the size of the cars and a rules in place at the tracks, something that would be in place regardless of liberty or not
MotoGP on the other hand, is an exciting product and something, if marketed correctly, can become huge
That can only be good for the sport as it brings more eyes on it, and subsequently more sponsorship to get more riders involved
Edited by graeme4130 on Saturday 30th March 21:31
Although, some of the rules that get made, ostensibly by the FIA, may well be as a result of discussions with Liberty Media, to ‘amplify’ certain characteristics of the racing, when in fact they end up making it s
t as a racing series.Time will certainly tell!
Deal done, Liberty Media buys MotoGP - https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2024/04/01/liberty-...
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With more eyes on the racing the commercial rights holders, the teams and the factories all set to benefit from this. The only people not considered in any of this are the (predominately european) fans who have supported the racing so far. Increased popularity regionally will increase demand for tickets at live events with reasonably fixed capacities increasing costs of attendance which will be pushed to the limit. There'll be pressure to host more than one US round which will come at the cost of European rounds as the riders and teams already feel at the limit of how many races they can compete in annually, again putting upwards pressure on ticket pricing.
Zarco said:
Forester1965 said:
Welcome MotoGP to gimmicks, crap TV shows, worse racing and milking every penny.
If you're drawing parallels with F1:- the racing was already crap
- gimmicks like DRS had been around for a while before Liberty too
Se7enheaven said:
Personally I don’t think Liberty getting involved in Moto GP is a good thing. But let’s see which way it goes.
My concern is they've just bought all world championship circuit racing. Dorna have done very well at packaging it all up, but for those who may decide to vote with their feet, it's national championships or another discipline.On a positive note, they could improve the official feed by changing the commentary team.
I’m open minded to it…. We won’t see stupid street circuit nonsense races like F1.
Tech regs aren’t decided by the rights holders, so hopefully the next set will reduce the engineer led racing we have, at least for a while.
Commercial promotion needs a revamp and it’ll surely get one, ‘there can be only one’ was alright in the first series, it was a poor second series and behind a paywall, simple enough stuff to fix and LM will do that.
Expanding the revenue, as long as teams benefits mean there’ll be trickle down benefits for feeder series, a broader set of circuits etc etc
We have the greatest spectacle of motorsport, where you can see the real racing happening. If LM are smart they’ll look to expose that more, undoubtedly led with characters and behind the scenes netflixification etc of the pit lane and stories.
I’m hopeful. F1 has st racing and it’s been like this for a long long time. It’s now st racing and a period of domination, which is the worst thing for any series. Yet even while it’s as dull as dishwater and as predictable night following day, they’ve grown the audience and the revenues.
Imagine if the racing was awesome as well …. We have the racing, let’s hope for the other benefits.
Tech regs aren’t decided by the rights holders, so hopefully the next set will reduce the engineer led racing we have, at least for a while.
Commercial promotion needs a revamp and it’ll surely get one, ‘there can be only one’ was alright in the first series, it was a poor second series and behind a paywall, simple enough stuff to fix and LM will do that.
Expanding the revenue, as long as teams benefits mean there’ll be trickle down benefits for feeder series, a broader set of circuits etc etc
We have the greatest spectacle of motorsport, where you can see the real racing happening. If LM are smart they’ll look to expose that more, undoubtedly led with characters and behind the scenes netflixification etc of the pit lane and stories.
I’m hopeful. F1 has s
t racing and it’s been like this for a long long time. It’s now st racing and a period of domination, which is the worst thing for any series. Yet even while it’s as dull as dishwater and as predictable night following day, they’ve grown the audience and the revenues.Imagine if the racing was awesome as well …. We have the racing, let’s hope for the other benefits.
Any ‘progress’ they have made with F1 has been on the commercialisation side. The racing has become even worse, and it wasn’t good to start with. The one group of people who haven’t benefited from Liberty in F1 are the fans who were already there.
I really don’t expect this to be a good thing for the quality of the racing. In fact, the focus will move to personalities and fabricated drama.
Sincerely hope I’m wrong.
I really don’t expect this to be a good thing for the quality of the racing. In fact, the focus will move to personalities and fabricated drama.
Sincerely hope I’m wrong.
hiccy18 said:
My concern is they've just bought all world championship circuit racing. Dorna have done very well at packaging it all up, but for those who may decide to vote with their feet, it's national championships or another discipline.
On a positive note, they could improve the official feed by changing the commentary team.
I wonder whether the eu commission will pass the sale providing they sell off some of the stock ie wsbk and MotoE something like this On a positive note, they could improve the official feed by changing the commentary team.
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