Formula 1 owner Liberty Media announced earlier this week that it had acquired majority ownership of Dorna Sports and MotoGP in a €4.2billion deal.
The news of Liberty’s takeover has led to much speculation over the direction MotoGP will move in over the next few years and how much of it will be modelled upon F1.
One area where F1 and MotoGP currently differ is in its feeder classes.
While Moto2 and Moto3 are considered world championships in their own right and feature on every MotoGP weekend, Formula 2 and Formula 3 have differing schedules.
The F2 and F3 paddocks are also separate from F1 and are managed independently from the latter.
Speaking to Autosport’s Spanish language MotoGP podcast ‘Por Orejas’, Ezpeleta says Moto2 and Moto3’s standing on grand prix events won’t change in the coming years because those “riders have an important relevance in what is the weekend”.
“It's not something we see and the reality is that, although there is a lot of rumour, which I don't really know where it comes from, the Moto2 and Moto3 teams at the moment are happy to be part of all the world championship events,” Ezpeleta said when asked if Moto2 and Moto3 races could be kept off the MotoGP bill at some events like F2 and F3.
Source: Autosport