Carmelo Ezpeleta says there will always be conflicts between F1 and MotoGP

While MotoGP recently unveiled its calendar for the 2025 season, Carmelo Ezpeleta explains that the discipline will always have weekends in common with F1 but that the arrival of Liberty Media should harmonize this.

F1 presented a calendar with 24 races in April while MotoGP unveiled a 2025 season with 22 race weekends. Over the next year, F1 and MotoGP will share 9 weekends together, especially in the second half of the year.

Impossible to avoid the conflict between F1 and MotoGP

MotoGP will welcome Liberty Media at the end of the season. The current owner of F1’s commercial rights announced the purchase of 86% of Dorna for a value of $4.2 billion. In an interview with the AS newspaper, Carmelo Ezpeleta explains that it will be difficult not to have weekends in common between the two disciplines.

“It’s very difficult not to overlap with them because they have 24 events and we have 22, which take place between March and November. There has always been good cooperation, and there will be even more now that Liberty Media resumes Dorna, but we cannot do without conflicts,” he says. “F1 and MotoGP currently take each other’s calendars into account when planning. We look at their calendars before we do ours, and now they look at ours before they do theirs. It wasn’t always the case before.”

F1 and MotoGP share only four circuits on the calendar, namely Barcelona, ​​the Red Bull Ring, Silverstone and Losail.