The fate of MotoGP ‘grid girls’ confirmed after Liberty takeover

F1 stopped using ‘griꦓd girls’ after it was taken♉ over by Liberty Media.
But, there are currently no plans to axe the umbrella-holding women from the MotoGP starting grid.
Liberty have acquired 86% of Dorna Sports and MotoGP, uniting the world’s top two-wheel and four-wheel racing✨ series under the same banner.
Questions have arise🀅n about whether some changes t🅰hat have been made to F1 by Liberty could be replicated in MotoGP.
Street circuits, used in F1 as a way to bring the race closer to a famous city like Las Vega💖s, is not something that can crওoss over.
.“We can’t tell anyone that they can’t be there.
“Ba♚nning umbrella girls I think would be a gesture against women, not in their f🍸avour.”
When F1 stopped using grid g🔯irls in 2018, they announced that “this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearl🌳y is at odds with modern day societal norms”.
But the change did attract some controversy,🦩 with some former grid gi꧃rls speaking out against the decision.
Melissa James told after losing her job on the grid: “I absolutely loved it. You want me to wear a super comfo𓃲rtable outfit and go to the VIP areas and watch what I was already going to pay to watch?
“Yeah, that’s fine by me. It was a dream job.”
She added: “You’re not just standing there on the concrete. You’re meeting fans, you’re posing with p🍸hotos and, because you’ve got the branding on your clothes, it’s going out on Instagram.
“Saying that we’re just a pretty face is absolutely ludicrous. We’re saleswomen at the end of the day. W⭕e need to learn how to talk to people and get people on board with the product.”
But, for now, Dorna clearly✅ has no plans to change the custom of ‘grid girls’ i𓂃n MotoGP.

J💛aꦓmes was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.