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You're a jackass
If you continually get rid of riders because of age or time in class you end up with the mxgp situation where their top mx2 riders aren't really that great (ie the results from mxdn, Charlotte, glen helen... They were all pretty far behind except for Herlings of course)
The Shop
What is the point in forcing guys up anymore? All the 450 spots are full and they are pretty much all either 250 champs or race winners.
I'd like to see guys who need to regroup like Weimer drop back down and bump up a Hill or Savatgy. Let guys go back and forth when needed.
I think they should force riders out, but make it way less convoluted. 2 championships or 600 total career points. Davalos still could have spent 8 years before he broke 600 points. If after 8 years in the learner's class, you still can't convince a 450 team to hire you, buy a van.
J Mart moves up
Hill/savatgy will have to move up (if they win titles)
And Martin Davalos will likely point out
4 Rookies in 2018? And at most I see 1 450 dude retiring!
A lot of guys ain't gonna have rides or there gonna change something..
They could try to equalise the status of the 250 and 450 classes. But then you're dividing the talent pool. KTM would put Dungey in one class and Musquin in the other as that would be the best way to maximize title chances in both classes.
Either way we get less talent in 450 and more in 250 compared to now. I fail to see how that is a good thing. No one is guaranteed a living doing what they want to do. There are other options. Arenacross, GNCC, MX only, Canada, Europe, team management, manufacturer rep, etc. Maybe they can race pro in India.
In fact we will hear about a couple injuries and broken bikes keeping points under 135.
Pit Row
Langston did it and it worked wonders for him.
Osborne
A Mart
Who else has been in there to long?
Also, if you look at the 450s now, what's the current rider to ride ratio? From everything I've seen, it leans pretty heavily towards the rides being more scarce that the riders, and not everyone racing a 450 currently pointed out of the 250 class.
If you ran East V West , every week, there can only be one winner, and one lot of points.. a guy who only just scrapes the points in a split series will be nowhere if they were together.
If you have guys like AC missing seasons because of injury, or riders missing races because they get injured at round 1, you can have guys getting results in weakened Coast based on the fact that 2 or 3 riders aren't there, and they might not even make top 10 in a combined class.
Point out champions by all means , after a year to defend, but don't throw guys up into a class with no rides, when the guys they are going to get replaced with aren't as good, and will also get moved up because all the fast guys are gone.
Just like all the other joes out in the world.. you don't do your job good enough, they hire someone else that will.. you're then out and looking for another job... and more than likely, if you find that job, you're replacing someone else who didn't do their job good enough.
Amazing how that works.
To make the 250 class even more prominent, and put more on the line in the 450, how about riders that have not won a title and score less than a certain amount of points are moved down to the 250 class.
Then top riders in the 250, with titles or points move up.
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