Who owns MotoGP?
MotoGP is owned by Liberty Media (the United States, NASDAQ: FWONK), which has owned the brand since 3 July 2025.[1]
Evidence: Liberty Media Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Liberty Media Corporation verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Englewood, Colorado
- Origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- Founded
- 1949
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Live & sport › Sports leagues
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: FWONK
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About MotoGP
MotoGP is the premier motorcycle racing championship, run commercially by Dorna Sports from Madrid. Liberty Media agreed to acquire a controlling stake in 2024, putting it alongside Formula One under the same owner. Dorna has run the commercial rights since 1992, and the acquisition required European Commission clearance because of Liberty's existing ownership of Formula One.
What Liberty Media's annual report says about MotoGP
Sentences about MotoGP from Liberty Media's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
The MotoGP Championship is an annual, approximately nine-month long, motorcycle racing competition in which riders compete for the Riders' Championship, teams (the "MotoGP Teams") compete for the Teams' Championship and engine manufacturers compete for the Manufacturers' Championship.
The MotoGP Championship has been held every year since 1949 and is a global series with a varying number of events ("MotoGP Events") taking place in different countries around the world each season.
MotoGP has been the exclusive rights holder of the MotoGP Championship since 1991.
How often Liberty Media names MotoGP in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of MotoGP
- 2025 – present Liberty Media [1] verified
Where MotoGP sits in Liberty Media
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Liberty Media
Liberty Media controls 2 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- Formula 1 (1950)
Other brands in sports leagues, and who owns them
The 18 brands in sports leagues on Brandtree belong to 10 owners. The largest is MSG Sports, with 4; Liberty Media has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Hartford Wolf Pack | MSG Sports | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Celtic FC Women | Celtic plc | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Juventus | Juventus FC S.p.A. | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Manchester United | Manchester United plc | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| UFC | TKO Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Atlanta Braves | Atlanta Braves Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Borussia Dortmund | Borussia Dortmund KGaA | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Professional Bowlers Association | Lucky Strike Entertainment | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Liberty Media
Liberty Media is a publicly listed company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, United States, founded in 1991. Brandtree records 2 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: FWONK.
Liberty Media is John Malone's holding company, known for tracking stocks and complex structures that let it hold unrelated assets under one listing. It owns the commercial rights to Formula One and MotoGP, so two of the world's largest motorsport series share an American owner.
Liberty Media: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇪🇸 MotoGP and other Spanish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 119 brands that began in Spain. 55 of them (46%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, MotoGP among them.
- Grupo Anaya — Lagardère 🇫🇷
- Abertis — Abertis 🇪🇸
- Air Europa — Air Europa 🇪🇸
- Aktuva — Cantabria Labs 🇪🇸
- Alhambra — Mahou San Miguel 🇪🇸
- Alsa — Mobico 🇬🇧
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of MotoGP?
The parent company of MotoGP is Liberty Media, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is MotoGP Spanish or American?
MotoGP originated in Spain in 1949, but it is owned today by Liberty Media, which is headquartered in the United States. So MotoGP is a Spanish-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Liberty Media owned MotoGP?
Liberty Media has owned MotoGP since 3 July 2025.
Is MotoGP still owned by Liberty Media?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, MotoGP is still owned by Liberty Media. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Liberty Media Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 26 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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