{"id":42426,"date":"2011-01-03T20:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=42426"},"modified":"2011-01-03T20:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:56:56","slug":"motorcycle-motogp-to-be-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=42426","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; MotoGP to Be Sold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Again we are hearing rumors. This time the subject of the whispered voices was not some new secret motorcycle model or a world-renowned racing celebrity changing race teams. No, this idle chat concerns the owners of the entire MotoGP World Championship series, Dorna, and their owners, London-based investment group Bridgepoint Capital. Apparently, MotoGP is up for sale and it may actually go through in early 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bridgepoint Capital previously picked up Dorna from another investment company, CVC, for what seems like a paltry \u00e2\u201a\u00ac450 million (~US$591 million at the current exchange rate, which has fallen some in recent years). CVC would not miss MotoGP as they now own the Formula 1 Championship. Investment firms are\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbikes.com\/sport-mainmenu-34\/motogp\/3646-motogp-to-be-sold\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again we are hearing rumors. This time the subject of the whispered voices was not some new secret motorcycle model or a world-renowned racing celebrity changing race teams. No, this idle chat concerns the owners of the entire MotoGP World Championship series, Dorna, and their owners, London-based investment group Bridgepoint Capital. Apparently, MotoGP is up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42427,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426\/revisions\/42427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}