Dorna boss names his price

"Honda now spends 40 million euros in its official team every year" - Carmelo Ezpeleta, Dorna.
Repsol Honda Garage, San Marino MotoGP 2011
Repsol Honda Garage, San Marino MotoGP 2011
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Dor🍌na CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta wants to see each MotoGP team limited to a budget of 15 million euros per s๊eason - less than half the amount being spent by reigning world champion's Honda.

During an interview with AS, Ezpeleta said: "The𒀰 cap per team I'd like is 15 million, excluding the salaries of riders and♚ marketing."

This would be achieved through "technical regulations that ꩵdisproportionately punish [expensive] bike developm♍ent".

Such regulations would include the proposed 'restriction' of each factory to no more than two official and two satellite bikes (the present level), enforcement of the previously revealed target of 1 million euros maximum for a customer bike (satellite or CRT) and t🐻he planned🍒 move to a single bike per rider.

"What cannot be is that Honda now spends 40 million euros in its official team every year," Ezpeleta ad💛ded.

The Spaniard also stated that BMW intends to join MotoGP if the costs of creating a competitive project are more af𝕴fordable.

The end of May has been targeted a⛦s the deadline for agreement on the post 2012 MotoGP rule changes, designed to heavily reduce costs - and improve the show - without driving out the three remaining manufacturers𝓰 (Honda, Yamaha and Ducati).

The new MotoGP season starts in Qatar on April 8.

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