Liberty Media has become the majority owner of MotoGP and promises to revolutionize the championship, just as it did with Formula 1.
Speaking at a Suzuki event, according to GPOne, Kevin Schwantz spoke about MotoGP’s new majority owner.
– Liberty Media did a great job with Formula 1 and I think they’ll be able to do the same with MotoGP. If they do even half of what they did in Formula 1, that will make a difference.
He added about the current predicament of Japanese manufacturers: ‘Japanese manufacturers need to open their minds more than they do at the moment. Just yesterday, at Le Mans, Quartararo went straight into Q2 and that’s the first time that’s happened this season. I feel sorry for Honda and Yamaha, because we all know what kind of bikes they can build. Ducati is the benchmark, KTM has also improved, but perhaps I expected more from them. But it has to be said that Acosta is putting his GasGas, which is a KTM, at the front a lot of the time, so