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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Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta wants to see each MotoGP team limited to a budget of 15 million euros per season - less than half the a🃏mount being spent by reigning wo꧅rld champion's Honda.

During an interview with AS, Ezpeleta said: "The cap per team I'd like is 15 million, excluding the salaries of riders and mark꧟eting."

This would be achieved through "technical regulations that disproportionately punish ♍[expensive] bike development".

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 ౠfor a customer bike (satellite or CRT) and the 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," Ezpel꧙eta added.

The Spaniardꦇ also state🦹d that BMW intends to join MotoGP if the costs of creating a competitive project are more affordable.

The end of May has been targete🎃d as 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 manufacturers (Honda, Yamaha and Ducati).

The new MotoGP season starts in Qatar on April 8.

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