MotoGP drops Clinica Mobile after 45 year partnership

Clinica Mobile confirmed on Friday it would no longer operate as part of the MotoGP World Championship paddock from 2023, after a partnership of almost five decades.

The decision, made by championship promoter Dorna to favour Spanish healthcare provider Quironsalud, seems to have taken the Italian-based outfit by surprise with the official statement asking ‘How can we be ready to leave what we love and we are passionate about?’

The onsite general practice, set up in the seventies by Dr. Claudio Marcello Costa and now led by Medical Director Michele Zasa, houses a large 30-strong team of both doctors and physiotherapists on hand to assist both riders and paddock staff across the demanding calendar. While the more acute and urgent trauma care is carried out by the MotoGP medical team under Dr. Angel Charte and already sponsored by Quironsalud.

“From next year, unfortunately, we won’t be present with the current structure in the MotoGP World Championship,” Zasa confirmed. “Of course this saddens me, but at the same time it gives me the opportunity to reflect upon all the good things we have done in the last years, when I took over the Clinica Mobile after Dr. Costa’s retirement.

“We have been through difficult years for many reasons, not least the logistics problems which became more complicated during the two years of Covid. Despite this, looking back I think I did a good job, carrying on Dr. Costa’s teachings and the fundamental principle of being constantly to the riders’ side, and at the same time trying to give a modern mark to this institution created almost 50 years ago.

“With regret, we have acknowledged the will of the organiser to follow a different road in a period of transformation.

“We thank all the people who