The entry of Liberty Media into MotoGP has not come to maintain the championship as it was and make it grow progressively, no. If the North American giant has bought the championship, it has been to manage it in its own way and try to repeat the formula that has taken F1 to a place it had not been until now.
Although MotoGP is not F1, they are following the same steps one after another. At first, maintaining things and, after a short learning period, starting to move everything. And one of those movements has a lot to do with focus. While MotoGP had focused on Europe and Asia for growth, as Bernie Ecclestone did with F1, Liberty wants to grow the product in the United States.
And the exhibition involves the interest in bringing MotoGP to Miami to race a GP and, also, with the fact that before that happens they are going to present the 2027 MotoGP season in the North American city. That is what GPOne.com anticipates and it would imply abandoning the Asian venues that in recent years had been the scene of the event.
Liberty is determined to bring more races to the United States and it seems that whatever the cost
It is not, as we say, anything coincidental and Liberty’s declared intention is to end up bringing a GP to Miami. In fact, there has even been work (for now without success) on the F1 track hosting MotoGP, something that logically is not viable as the track is currently known and which runs surrounded by walls and with practically no escape.
So since there is no GP, the way to bring the championship closer to American soil is through this. And be careful, because the big problem that the United States has is that it does not have circuits of the level that MotoGP requires. Removing COTA, there is no other track that reaches safety standards even turning a blind eye as was done in Hungary.
Another interesting issue is that these presentations have been made taking advantage of the preseason tests and that the drivers and teams were in that area of the globe, something that is not going to happen there. And the only solution is for the championship to start precisely in Austin, despite the fact that there are more than 1,300 miles between the two cities. To this we should add that the temperatures at the end of February and beginning of March, when the championship starts, are not ideal.
In any case, what is evident is that Liberty is willing to change everything to achieve its “dream” of having several GPs on American soil and make money from it. We will see how these movements feel to the teams and, also, to the brands.
