Carmelo Ezpeleta is the CEO of Dorna. The head of the company that manages the Motorcycle World Championship recently met with Manuel Pecino, journalist and collaborator of ‘Mundo Deportivo’, where he spoke to all that can be seen in full on his channel and where they analyzed the various issues of past, present and future of the World Championship.
Asked by pilots who landed in the World Cupanswered Ezpeleta “This is a critical thing, but we have to see how we can do to have pilots of more nationalities. Actually, I don’t have a magic wand.”
“The best should be there, but it’s easier to be better if you’re Italian or Spanish. It should happen like it happens in the Olympic Games, although I’m not saying it should be like that. Three Americans are going to the Olympic Games. And, you, you’re the fourth American. You have a better brand than most others and you’re not going to“, he added about the nationality of the pilots in the Motorcycle World Championship.
“The World Championship is the World Championship. It cannot be that, for commercial reasons, a team, for example, hires a Spanish driver because it is very good for them commercially.because in Spain they will support him more,” Ezpeleta defended.
As such, Dorna’s CEO points to that “no one is born good. Of those who come, there is no bad. No more bad pilots. They are all very good because they come from big teams. what will happen, some, and this is indisputable, have a better way of doing things better and others less.“.
Pecino maintains that they have been trying for a long time and, however, no pilots from other national teams have arrived. “They come out, but it is related to the number of people who practice motorcycling in each area. Using a football simile, most of the signatories are Brazilians and Argentines. In these countries, football is different. Currently, Spain and Italy… The Spanish, in the history of the World Cup, do not appear until after 30 or 40 years of operation. With the change in the political situation in Spain, circuits began to be built, the climate was wonderful… The Spaniards began to appear,” Ezpeleta replied.
In the same line, Carmelo added that “However, there are always Italians. Since the first championships. In Italy there was another motorcycle philosophy and, thanks to the political situation at the time, they were accessible earlier and there were manufacturers who made motorcycles of any grade.”
“That we start going to more countries and people come from those countries who want to emulate what they see… all the drivers who come out now are watching the races. It’s a drop and something to do. If it is aspirational, with possibilities in more areas, We will have people from more places. We’ve been doing this for a long time, but we have to persevere.”concluded Carmelo Ezpeleta.
Source: La Verdad
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