In recent weeks, rumors have grown about a possible sale of Dorna – the promoter of MotoGP. Currently, the majority shareholder is the investment fund Bridgepoint, and one of the entities allegedly interested in the acquisition is Liberty Media – the owner of Formula 1. Carlo Pernat believes that the deal is a matter of time, regardless of who acquires it.
The pilots’ entrepreneur told the site Moto.it, quoted on Motosan.es, that there are two possible alternatives: ‘
Dorna is officially for sale. A statement was also made, so we are not dreaming, let’s say there are two paths: one is the money from oil, Arab dollars, and the other, on the contrary, is the American history of who controls Formula 1. They are two different paths, I think the Dorna fund, Bridgepoint, wants to sell and stop there. So, I am convinced and I will say it first, that by the middle of the season at the latest, you will see that I am right‘.
According to Pernat, the sale of Dorna is an inevitability and will happen in the next few months: ‘And it will be sold, when you sell to people who have money it is always good, but it is necessary to see who they bring in to manage things, because it is not a question of money, it is a question of who has more possibilities of doing well. The fact that it is an Arab fund taking over is an unknown because you do not know who could manage this operation and why they would do it. I do not want to say that I hope they sell it, but in my opinion Dorna, since 1992, has been the owner here, has done very well because they professionalized everything. In my opinion, they have come to a point where the replacement is more than planned, so, in my opinion, there will surely be a replacement in the middle of the year‘.
