Will Liberty Media Ruin MotoGP?

Will MotoGP still be the raw and unpre­dictable rac­ing we all fell in love with, or is it soon to be
For­mu­la 1 on two wheels? With the mul­ti-bil­lion-euro takeover from Lib­er­ty Media it seems that MotoGP may soon be at a cross­roads. The new own­ers rev­o­lu­tionised F1 into a glob­al phe­nom­e­non, and now they’ve got their hands on motor­cy­cle rac­ings crown jew­el, with this change fans and rid­ers alike are won­der­ing. will MotoGP gain new pop­u­lar­i­ty at the cost of its iden­ti­ty?

The “F1-ifi­ca­tion” of MotoGP
Ever since Lib­er­ty Media got involved, MotoGP has start­ed to feel… well, a bit more For­mu­la 1 than
we’re used to.

First came the sprint races in 2023. Some fans loved the extra action, oth­ers felt it messed with the flow of a Grand Prix week­end. Rid­ers them­selves? Plen­ty of them open­ly admit­ted they weren’t fans, and that says a lot.

Then in 2025, we saw Moto2 and Moto3 being forced into the same practice/qualifying for­mat as
MotoGP. On paper, it looks tidy and uni­form. But part of me feels like we’re los­ing the quirks and
char­ac­ter that made each class feel unique.

And here’s the big one: there are rumours that Lib­er­ty wants to only count pre­mier-class titles in the
“offi­cial” his­to­ry books. If that real­ly hap­pens, leg­ends like Gia­co­mo Agos­ti­ni sud­den­ly don’t have 15
titles any­more, just eight. Marc Márquez’s nine? Reframed as sev­en. That’s not just a stat change,
that’s rewrit­ing the sport’s entire his­to­ry. So if MotoGP is real­ly being pol­ished and pack­aged to look a lot more like F1. The big ques­tion is, do we real­ly want that?

What’s Real­ly at Stake
This isn’t just about num­bers on a stat sheet. What’s up for grabs here is the soul of MotoGP.
For years, MotoGP has felt dif­fer­ent to F1. Less pol­i­tics, less show­biz, more heart. Rid­ers have
always been at the cen­tre of the sto­ry. Throw­ing them­selves into cor­ners with noth­ing but brav­ery and
skill to keep them upright. That raw, two-wheeled chaos is what makes the sport so addic­tive.
But if Lib­er­ty leans too heav­i­ly on the For­mu­la 1 mod­el, there’s a real risk we lose that edge. The
sport could start look­ing more pol­ished, but less authen­tic.

MotoGP doesn’t have to be For­mu­la 1 to be suc­cess­ful. What it needs is to hold onto the things that
make it unique, the guts of the rid­ers, the insane­ly close rac­ing, the lad­der sys­tem that turns kids in
Moto3 into leg­ends in MotoGP. That’s the sto­ry worth telling, and Lib­er­ty can either bring that to the
world, or bury it under the gloss.