In the round-up: The CEO of Moto GP’s owner Dorna says the series has had talks with Formula 1 about sharing a race weekend.
In brief
Moto GP ‘could share weekend with F1’
Dorna CEO Carmen Ezpeleta says he discussed the possibility of a joint race weekend with F1 when its CEO Stefano Domenicali visited the season-opening round at Autodromo do Algarve in Portugal last month.
“It’s something that Stefano and I crossed our minds, although at the moment it cannot be done,” he told Soy Motor. “But we are studying the possibility.”
Moto GP’s existing circuit contracts would rule out a joint race weekend happening before 2027, Ezpeleta added. “We are going to study it, because it is not something simple,” he said. “There are security problems, because our measures in some cases do not coincide with theirs. There are also sponsor problems.”
Red Bull unlikely to face competition from rivals – Massa
Red Bull are at least half a second ahead on pace and are unlikely to be challenged by their rivals this year, says Felipe Massa.
“The only hope, for the show, is that they have some technical failure or that there is a battle between their team mates,” Massa told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “I have the impression that Sergio Perez can hit some win and have a good championship, but Verstappen’s level is impressive.”
He believes Verstappen could beat the championship and race win tallies of Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher. “He’s very young, he’s on his way to winning his third world title and with Red Bull he can win almost all the races on the calendar, which are many,” said Massa. “It will only depend on his desire to race for many more years. But he has every chance of overcoming the Lewis and Michael records.”
Ferrari needs “dream team” – Montezemolo
Former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says the team needs to recreate a ‘dream team’ line-up of the kind it had in the early noughties to get back to championship-winning ways.
“I’m sorry to see Ferrari like this and I don’t think that it is a short-term crisis because it is a matter of rebuilding,” he said in an appearance on Italian television channel La7. “It’s also about finding the best technicians on the market, see when I put together the team that today is called the dream team.”
Despite Ferrari’s failure to win a race in the second half of last season, Montezemolo thought they would begin the new championship more strongly. “I would…
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