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Pourcel (Seb)
Musquin
Townley
Iziord
Aranda
tons of other frenchies
Van Horebeek
Roelants
Cairoli
Frossard
Osborne
No, no one in Europe
Holds 120 000 and lap times maybe over minute
But like Brakkeman said no, no one in Europe...
Supercross in GB or the Netherlands would be so cool and if they organizes like the Indycar it can't be a problem.
Let the first 40 of each class transport there bikes, parts, ... free or very, very cheap with a big jumbo charter flight.
1. MX/SX is not yet mainstream. With mainstream acceptance comes outside sponsorship and the possible dollars to make it happen.
2. The notion held by many that the "privateer" must still be a integral part of the premier series in the world. While it gives many a warm feeling that anyone with a few dollars to buy the right gear, and with enough basic talent to qualify, can rock up in their box van to an FIM world championship race, that's not the road to a true international series.
In reality the above points are related. When you have a "world" championship in which a good portion of the participants can't even afford to drive themselves across the border to the nearest neighbouring country, you don't really have a world championship.
And therein lies the rub - our sport is still too niche for this to happen (yet). In many ways it suffers from a combination of the disadvantages of other mainstream sports - like other motorsport disciplines it's expensive to compete and even more expensive if you want to win; yet it isn't available at a grass roots level in schools and local clubs like stick and ball sports.
Roczen 350cc Dayton he was one of the best 8 riders ... Don't know but ... EPICFAIL???
Not that long ago Christophe Pourcel owned the Americans two years in a row in Supercross...
Your last idea is a good and practical a model, and one and has been floated by a lot of people over the ten years I've been on the boards as something that would get some of the best riders together without breaking either series. Who knows? And deal would have a lot of devils in the details and I think it would be pretty hard to make happen.
The "easiest" way would be for someone with really deep pockets to run something that offered start money and significant purses to attract the best riders and run a short series off that regardless of who sanctioned it or whether it was sanctioned at all (IMO sanctioning organizations like the old AMA or the FIM are anachronisms and unnecessary to a well run series)
Roczen... how many races did he win in the US?
Paulin... never heard of him...
"those guys will kick your asses"... Thanks for the 'giggle'....
He rode also the first three SX's in 2010 he was in the same lap of your great riders and even in the top ten. Sorry guy you are hilarious. Thanks for the laugh. Real MX/SX fan you ;-)
Pit Row
If they pulled off a legit round in London, could only be good for the sport.
"Pourcel is an American rider... Hasn't he been riding over here for the last several years?"
Oh yes he is ALL AMERICAN. Thats why everyone hates him for being French.
BONUS INFO: Pourcel one his first SX Lites title first try.
It was a huge payday for most of the riders, so they made the effort. But today, everyone is paid much better. Right or wrong, big name riders seemingly won't cross the street to race for anything less than six figures.
I typically don't like people from France, but I do like Pourcel, so to say "everyone hates him for being French" is a bold faced lie.
When I said, "what SX riders does Europe have"... I was meaning... that aren't already racing in the most premier series of the world... the one in the US.
Basically the same personnel running the series now for Feld brought a couple races over to Europe when that went down to embellish the "world" title and it was a fiasco and a huge financial hole. The best riders weren't going and they were paying the way for journeymen American riders. It's not like they didn't try; they did and it didn't work, and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for another run at it.
I believe Dorna is still the primary rights holder from the FIM to run the World SX, contracted out to CC, Live Nation and now Feld as the rights have passed over time.
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