Sprint races. Parades around the circuit in cattle trailers. National anthem ceremonies with threats of fines for non-attendance. The smaller classes being increasingly pushed out of the paddock.
These are all moves made by Formula 1, and all steps that MotoGP is currently in the process of copying - and something that's risking the very soul of grand prix motorcycle racing as it piles more and more pressure onto its stars.
It's hardly surprising, of course. F1 has, in recent years, enjoyed a huge boom. Audiences are bigger than ever before under Liberty Media's stewardship, and as a result teams are more financially stable, and drivers better paid. Everyone is making more money, which at the end of the day is the name of the game for the venture capitalists now ultimately in control.
Such changes were inevitable in MotoGP too, of course, as soon as it was announced that Liberty was taking over. It's not spending billions buying the series to not make money, after all, and the reason that MotoGP was so tempting is that it's very much a low-hanging fruit, a championship that under its current owner hasn't mirrored F1's growth rate.
But most of what Dorna has tried prior to Liberty's arrival has been fairly blatant copying of F1 - shoehorning car racing's ideas into bike racing, much to the disappointment not just of hardcore fans but also to many on the MotoGP grid.
The arrival of a new national anthem ceremony at last weekend's San Marino Grand Prix is the perfect example. Copied directly from what F1 does, inspired by the often-jingoistic displays from American sports, and leaked to the media before MotoGP's racers were officially informed, it's at best a distraction when the riders least need it, a few minutes before jumping on 250mph missiles.
Don't get me wrong: I'm very much an advocate for racers being expected to partake in more work during a race weekend.
Most MotoGP riders would be shocked to see the sort of PR, media and sponsorship activation schedules expected of F1 drivers, and might be in for an even bigger surprise in the coming years when more and more is asked of them (albeit likely in return for bigger contracts that might go some way to calming them down again).
The sponsorship machine must be fed, and riders' time is the meat. MotoGP is currently woefully bad at that, and it's very obviously the first area where teams are going to have to up their game under the new management.
Yet I'm pretty sure that the new grid anthem line-up is not something that Liberty has foisted upon MotoGP, but rather another example of Dorna's current management doing what it thinks Liberty wants from it - and perhaps missing the point in the process.
Yes, the Americans (masters as they are in the business of sports) have made many changes to F1, many of them unpopular with the loyal fanbase. But what they've really done to turn around declining audiences and financially struggling teams isn't small changes like lining up for national anthems, it's the bigger picture that Dorna still continues to miss.
Simply put, what Liberty really brought to F1 is creativity. It most obviously launched the runaway success that is Netflix documentary series Drive to Survive, but it also gave teams, sponsors, and drivers themselves the opportunity, tools and motivation to make their own content, and that is what's really turned the current grid into global superstars.
There are F1 teams right now that have more people in their creative departments (running social media, producing videos, setting up collaborations with brands ranging from Adidas, to Zoom, via Disney, Lego, and Heineken) than MotoGP teams have on their entire staff. We're getting to see more of the championship than ever before - yet in MotoGP we're barely taking baby steps.
Hopefully that's something that Liberty (which made its first proper visit to a race en masse at Misano last weekend, with a US delegation of dozens of experts in town for the San Marino Grand Prix) realises.
Even more important, though, is the hope that Liberty realises something that Dorna seems to have missed for a few years now: MotoGP isn't F1, and trying to make it something it isn't will do nothing but kill the soul of the sport we all love.
We've always been a bit different; a bit more working class, a bit more blue collar. There's an old story about Brooklands (the world's very first permanent circuit) feeding the car racers at lunchtime in the restaurant but relegating the bikers to the cafe. That nicely captures the difference in the two, and it's hopefully something that Liberty sees and leans in on.
It can't be a coincidence that the best races in Europe (by an awful long way) are the five that feel like they're still geared for bikers. The Sachsenring, Assen, Brno, Jerez and of course Le Mans all still retain the feel of what motorcycle racing is. They couldn't be more removed from the likes of Silverstone and Lusail, where we almost feel like intruders - and the number of people who turn up reflects that, too.
In a world where Liberty owns both F1 and MotoGP, it doesn't make sense to make one a clone of the other. Dorna already tried that, after all, with MotoGP and World Superbikes, and it failed spectacularly.
Instead, the dream has to be that it recognises the two championships for what they are: different things, with different souls. Liberty’s first move shouldn't be increasing the F1-ification of MotoGP, it should be undoing the F1-inspired moves Dorna has already made, and starting the process of returning MotoGP to what makes it great.
