Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta expects MotoGP and🗹 Formula 1 to work closer together on calendar creation under Liberty Media ownership, but clashes will remain.

Eജarlier this year, F1 owner Liberty announced it had purchased 86% of Dorna and MotoGP in a deal worth $4.2 bill♕ion, which is set to close at the end of 2024.

While Liberty has its own ꧒ideas about how to grow MotoGP, it has long stated it has no plans t𝐆o strip the series of its identity amid fears from fans of it becoming like F1.

Both series have now revealed their 2025 calendars, with F1 set to rac🔴e at 24 rounds next year and MotoGP provisionally at 22.

And while F1 released its 2025 schedule in April and MotoGP didn’t🎃 reveal its calendar until last month, there are nine weekends in which both series will clash.

In an interview with Span💎ish publication AS, Ezpeleta concedes that avoiding calendar clashes is difficult given how many races both series host now but this isn’t likely to change anytime soon under Liberty.

“It is very difficult not to overlap them because they have 24 r💫ounds and we have 22, whic༒h take place between March and November,” he said about the calendars for F1 and MotoGP.

“There has always been good cooperation, and there will be even more now that Liberty Media is taking over the Dorna, but weꦗ will not be able to do without schedu🦹ling conflicts.

“Both F1 and MotoGP are currently taking each other's schedules iไnto account when planning.

“We look at their calendar before we make ours, and now t♏hey look at ours before the💯y make theirs. That wasn't always the case in the past.”

MotoGP is set to return to Hung⛎ary in 2025 at the new Balaton Park🍨 circuit, which is due to undergo upgrades to bring it up to standard.

The series is also set to return to Argen🎉tina following the race’s cancellation this year due to austerity measu💙res taking funding away for the event.