MotoGP is going through a period of markedly less interest on a global level, both in terms of the number of spectators and the spectators watching the races “in the locomotive”. There are numbers in some chains, they were talked about, but for President Dorna there are only two cases in which one can speak of “failure” in precisely this. “This season we have had two failures: Mugello and Portimão. The rest were perfect. [jornalistas] I like to delve into history. I’ve been at this for 30 years and I’m used to it. But I’ll tell you, it’s not true. If you analyze it, then in Qatar there were as always, in Indonesia it was full, in Argentina it was almost full, in the USA there were more people than last year. Portimão went wrong because he was promoted badly,” shot Carmelo Espeleta, then talking about what happened in the Algarve. “It was a promotion problem. He also said that it could have been influenced by his being close to Jerez. And if there are mistakes, they must be recognized and corrected next year. Everything went well in Jerez. It is not true that there were fewer people. After that we went to France, a complete success. The total success of a man who, even without Quartararo and Zarco, was also successful. It was well advertised,” he said.
Espeleta also said that the MotoGP World Championship continues to be attractive and even mentioned a few interested in racing. “Now we have six Grand Prix open that are asking to be held. It shows if you are healthy or not, the rest doesn’t matter to me. you don’t have problems in a certain place when you have them. And this year we had it only in Portimão and Mugello. I just spoke to Germany and the tickets are almost sold out – and there are no Germans. I spoke with Holland. , in the place where King Verstappen is now. All these things that put Portimão in such a way that he does not “play” with Jerez, so that Catalonia does not fall, these are the things that we analyze. But the most wonderful news: “a big drop in viewers.” Well, well, thank you, thank you very much, ”he concluded ironically.
