The ‘minimum wage’ arrives in MotoGP: riders will have to earn at least half a million euros per season

The ‘minimum wage’ arrives in MotoGP: riders will have to earn at least half a million euros per season

Details will be made official soon

MotoGP is in the middle of the transition between the old ownership represented by Dorna and the new one, namely Liberty Media, which intends to follow the same footsteps with MotoGP that have made F1 a 360° commercial product as well as a sporting one.

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The manufacturers and Liberty Media have not yet finalized the agreement for 2027 regarding the division of revenues, the equivalent of what in F1 is called the Concorde Agreement, because in the face of the request for extensive availability of the riders for promotional activities designed by Liberty Media, the teams rightly want to cash in when they have to make their most valuable ’employees’ available in a dynamic that will have many more facets and synergies regarding the interaction between Liberty Media and the teams in creating content functional to the growth of the category.

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Soon the classic white smoke will arrive, an agreement that will also kick off the announcements related to the rider market. Furthermore, Liberty Media will introduce a ‘minimum wage‘ for riders competing in MotoGP. According to reports from the Spanish publication AS, every protagonist in the premier class must earn at least half a million euros per season.

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