A hostage situation is where one person or group threatens another person or group with material harms unless their demands are met. Usually, we think of bank robbers and thieves when you think of hostage situations. But that's absolutely the case with how MotoGP's executives are acting toward the teams and manufacturers in regards to their next Concorde Agreement.
See, every few years, Dorna, which is now MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group, meet with the teams and manufacturers and decide what the rules are going to be, championship purses, as well as how revenue is doled out. They end with what's known as a Concorde Agreement that'll stay in place for a predetermined set of years.
Neither party wants to compromise, but they end up doing so each and every time, as neither wants negotiations to drag out any longer than they have to. And for much of the last few decades, those negotiations were helmed by the Ezpeletas, both Carlos and Carmello, representing Dorna and now MGPSEG, a very silly acronym.
