Formula 1 owner Liberty Media intends to finalise its purchase of the MotoGP World Championship for a figure of around €4 billion.

    • frank@sopuli.xyz
      10·
      2 months ago

      I think it’s unlikely for a few reasons. The biggest reason being that F1 is sold out at most permanent race tracks (non street circuits) these days.

      Having raced both cars and bikes at an amateur level, I don’t think the safety features are similar enough. You move a lot of air fence/tecpro and widen or lessen gravel traps to switch between cars and bikes.

      They may once for a promo type of thing, but I doubt it’d be a consistent thing. Happy to be proven wrong for sure, but it seems logistically too tough.

      • *Tagger*@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        True true, they would be leaving ticket money on the table, even apart from all the safety and logistical issues.

    • bhmnscmm@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      2 months ago

      That would be really cool. I’m not very familiar with MotoGP, but they have different curb/runoff/etc. requirements, right? Are there a lot of F1 races that meet requirement for both series? I know they already share some tracks on different weekends.

      • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 months ago

        My understanding is that most if not all dedicated tracks that F1 races on could be Moto GP tracks, but street circuits would be no. The bigger issue is the loss of good GP tracks that F1 could not use. Like Laguna Seca, it has one of the best corner complexes in racing but F1 can’t race there. And we all know they would axe moto GP races before F1

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been watching both motoGP and F1 for a while (2010 and 2008, respectively), and I think liberty was really good for F1 fans. Yes, it’s more popular and harder to go to some races now for sure. But the production value, amount of coverage you get is significantly higher than Bernie-era-F1. I’d be excited for better MotoGP coverage honestly.

    Give me a package deal to watch both and I will buy it

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    We’re in an odd timeline. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the following news story in the future:

    “Hamilton takes the checkered flag at this weekend’s Isle of Man F1/MotoGP biathlon.”