There’s been numerous discuss since Liberty Media, the parents who personal System 1, purchased MotoGP from Dorna earlier this 12 months. Questions have swirled round ticket costs, technical regulation modifications, personnel modifications, further groups, and what—if any—crossover would happen between the 2 top-spec sequence’.
One of many greatest questions on everybody’s minds, nonetheless, has been within the latter’s realm, i.e. would there be a double-header race weekend that sees each System 1 and MotoGP race collectively? To this point, there’s been nothing official from Liberty Media on the topic, however the two race at a handful of the identical tracks, so it is not out of the realm of chance.
No official statements, nonetheless, have not stopped System 1’s greatest star Lewis Hamilton from talking out about the opportunity of the 2 racing side-by-side throughout a weekend. And given Hamilton’s earlier expertise with Valentino Rossi, you possibly can guess the place he sides on the topic.
“It is thrilling [to see Liberty Media acquire the series] as a result of I like MotoGP. It might be epic if we will have them on the identical weekend,” Hamilton advised Motorsport. The F1 celebrity then added, semi-joking, “Possibly I may do a race in MotoGP and race a System 1 automobile on the identical weekend. That may be actually cool.” He then added that it’d doubtless be “unimaginable”.
I would not rely that out, nonetheless. It is Lewis Hamilton and if there was anybody on Earth that might make racing each System 1 and MotoGP on the identical weekend occur, I might put my cash on him. On the very least, I may see him do a parade lap on a MotoGP bike. Wheelies can be had.
As alluded to above, Hamilton even swapped racers with Valentino Rossi throughout his remaining race years. Hamilton gave Rossi the keys to his F1 automobile, whereas Rossi gave Hamilton the keys to his MotoGP bike. And the 2 weren’t horrible at one another’s disciplines, however that is form of what you’d anticipate from two of probably the most elite athletes on the planet, is not it?
There have been even rumors that Rossi was eyeing an F1 seat after his retirement.
The 2 sequence’ share a few tracks, however when speaking about it amongst the remainder of the RideApart employees, the consensus of the monitor that made probably the most sense was Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The 2 at present have very separate schedules for the COTA race, with MotoGP taking the monitor over in April, with F1 having it in October.
However the two can swap dates round and Austin’s monitor looks like a strong first outing for the 2 to strive a double-header, because it has greater than sufficient area to accommodate each. Although possibly that is my very own wishful considering?
