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September 12th, 2012, 05:40 PM
Dorna responds to Schwantz/COTA legal tussle
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MotoGP rightsholders say original contract canceled because 3fourTexasMGP didn’t provide evidence of agreement with COTA to promote MotoGP race (http://www.sportrider.com/news/146_12090_dorna_responds_to_schwantz_cota_lawsuit/)The unfortunate saga of the possible third MotoGP race in 2013 at the still-under-construction Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas, continued with MotoGP rightsholders Dorna issuing a statement regarding the lawsuit filed by Schwantz’s company 3fourTexasMGP against the COTA racetrack management.
According to Dorna, “Dorna Sports S.L. entered into a Promoters Contract with 3four Texas MGP LLC in connection with the organization of a FIM MotoGP™ Grand Prix at The Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, on February 11th 2011 to be effective from the 2013 season.” As expected though, the point of contention rests with the fact that the contract that Schwantz had after Tavo Hellmund (the person credited with the original vision of the Austin circuit and making the possibility of an F1 event happen, but who was eventually forced out by COTA management) stepped away after his own legal wranglings with the circuit was that the contract didn’t specify that the race would be held at COTA, only that it would be run in the state of Texas. Dorna stated that it “understood that 3four Texas MGP LLC had an agreement with COTA to run the event.”
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MotoGP rightsholders say original contract canceled because 3fourTexasMGP didn’t provide evidence of agreement with COTA to promote MotoGP race (http://www.sportrider.com/news/146_12090_dorna_responds_to_schwantz_cota_lawsuit/)The unfortunate saga of the possible third MotoGP race in 2013 at the still-under-construction Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas, continued with MotoGP rightsholders Dorna issuing a statement regarding the lawsuit filed by Schwantz’s company 3fourTexasMGP against the COTA racetrack management.
According to Dorna, “Dorna Sports S.L. entered into a Promoters Contract with 3four Texas MGP LLC in connection with the organization of a FIM MotoGP™ Grand Prix at The Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, on February 11th 2011 to be effective from the 2013 season.” As expected though, the point of contention rests with the fact that the contract that Schwantz had after Tavo Hellmund (the person credited with the original vision of the Austin circuit and making the possibility of an F1 event happen, but who was eventually forced out by COTA management) stepped away after his own legal wranglings with the circuit was that the contract didn’t specify that the race would be held at COTA, only that it would be run in the state of Texas. Dorna stated that it “understood that 3four Texas MGP LLC had an agreement with COTA to run the event.”
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