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Why Does Dorna Hate US MotoGP Fans So Much?

It's hard to believe, but the 2025 MotoGP season opener already took place over the weekend in Buriram, Thailand. As Dorna keeps filling out the calendar with seemingly more and more race weekends each year, the starting weekend gets closer and closer to the winter testing dates, seemingly with every season.

But to kick off 2025 on a bad note, Dorna once again showed US fans how little it thinks of us.

See, for years now, it's done this thing where it doesn't announce where the official US broadcast license will land until just a couple of days before the season opener. That, naturally, left US MotoGP fans scrambling, as we had to figure out if we already had subscriptions to whatever service Dorna had seen fit to sign a contract with this year, or if we needed to go add yet another subscription to the seemingly neverending list if we just can't live without our MotoGP fix. 

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