World Superbikes is up for sale

WSB is up for sale and MotoGP owners Dorna have placed a bid to buy it

Posted: 3 June 2011
by Nathan Clark

WORLD SUPERBIKES is up for sale and the owners of MotoGP have placed a bid to buy it.

Sources close to the current rights holders Infront Sports & Media estimate the sersies to be worth €1bn, while our sources say bids are closer to €600m.

If successful, UK-based Bridgepoint Capital - owners of Dorna, who currently own the rights to MotoGP - would also own the rights to the World Superbike series.

The current main stake-holder to the World Superbike series, multi-millionaire Andreas Jacobs wants to sell his majority stake in Infront Sports & Media agency to concentrate on his other ventures.

It is not known whether the World Superbike series would run under Dorna's management.

The date for closing bids is 20th June 2011.


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OrangeBlood
this can't be good

Posted: 03/06/2011 at 19:39


mobus
yeah.. sounds like very bad news.

Posted: 04/06/2011 at 00:07


Thomp

FFS, this is the first Motorcycling news story i've read on Monday morning and it's pissing it down outside.... Bloody bollocks


Posted: 06/06/2011 at 08:08


SuzukiSteve

The promoters of MotoGP want to buy WSB? That's like Coca Cola buying Pepsico.

Is that actually allowed? Is there something like an international Competition Commission which could prevent this? 


Posted: 09/06/2011 at 13:31


sexdrugs'n'rockingmole
If Dorna owned both and the FIM forced them to keep the serieses (is that the plural of series?) unique, could ultimately be good. Have a huge feeling of doubt though...

Posted: 09/06/2011 at 22:07

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