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DORNA Sports, which promotes and owns the commercial rights to the MotoGP World Championship as well as a Spanish National Championship, is buying the promotion and marketing rights to the British Superbike Championship.

In an interview published in the Spanish magazine Motociclismo last week, DORNA boss Carmelo Ezpeleta said that DORNA had been approached about buying the series and was doing the deal because the British market is important and it did not want to see the top British Championship decline.