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Sorry I don't follow the pro side of the sport as much as you. I prefer to ride and support the local side of the sport with our kids racing. These are serious character attacks that should be openly discussed since many on this board only follow the pro racing side of the sport. Just looking for the truth.
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How many times does this make, four?? Five??
Can you say AGENDA?
The other side of the story, as I recall, was NPG lost out to DMG because DMG bought the whole package, and
then called MXSports and asked them if they wanted to run the MX portion as a sub contractor kind of deal.
Things got pretty heavy for awhile.
Youth stream was what some thought the favorite to win the whole ball of wax.
They belittled the way the races were being run here in the States.
I think DeCoster called Budds Creek a garbage dump or something.
TFS jumped on that bandwagon, I remember seeing him, GuyB and another guy over there in Europe in the press.
Looked to me like Youthstream was stroking them. TFS took the bait, and from then on MX in America was crapola.
At least the way it was run, in his eyes.
DMG came in at the last moment and bought it all. Some say Glen Helen got screwed, TFS said he got blackballed.
One thing is for sure. The American tracks, IMO, were never the same. The fencing was moved back from the track.
VIP areas appeared. Banners sprouted like weeds. Prices went up and up. The pits became off limits. No more 2 day events, they actually dropped each event to one day, Saturday at that.
And yeah, youth stream tried to invade the US. They even had an office in California for awhile.
GL thought he was gonna come in and take over, but, nobody went to the few races he held.
He tucked tail and went home, and it's one guys belief those that sided with him paid a price, in one way or another.
That's how I remember it anyway.
The dated Bud Feldkamp article has appeared at the bottom of some of MXAs webpages FOR MONTHS if not a year or more along with a JLaw story and an old Chad Reed story.
I could give a fuck about what MXA has on their site.... I don't go there, obviously.
Your beef is with the OP for posting an old story, not me.
Actually, he probably won't because this type of thing is probably not worth his time.
Pit Row
DC & Co. and Dr Feldcamp did not see eye to eye then. They've long since worked things out, it seems.
Dr Feldcamp probably lost a fair bit of money on the 2 first Youthstream GPs he ran - despite probably paying far less to Luongo than virtually any other GP organizer.
I hope he did / can make money from last years GP, this years, then the MXDN. Probably, just the MXDN ( though I bet your arse that he's getting no discount on the sanctioning fees for that event, from Luongo / Youthstream), as Southern California doesn't seem that interested in motocross, despite it being touted as the heart land of MX in the United States - I guess SX has taken over with 'fans'. I think I see far bigger crowds at most of the other US Nationals than I've seen at Glen Helen in the last couple of years. The Motocross Des Nations, should certainly get US Motocross fans in. The US Team will be deserved favourites to win, and that should get people coming from all across the US there. I'm going, I've already set my contra deal in place for it.
Other than my feeling Dr Feldcamp / Glen Helen very much deserves to get something from running the GPs, I'd love to see the US GP at one of the many other, great MX tracks in the US. As for what's to come in Charlotte(?). well, I really do hope it's not just going to be an over-sized SX. Assen was far, far better than most expected, but, I think it was down to the sand. Still, The Netherlands, has many tracks that should have had the GP, rather than Assen. But, Luongo demands his hundreds of thousand of Euros sanctioning fees, and he's always looking to get yet another 'partner' to pay him.
I have always had much respect for the Coombs family and Davey but....if the above article is Factually true then yes, it was then a snake business move...hence my calling him a snake. If interests of the personal pocket got put before the interests of greater good of the sport then I stand firm on my opinion.
That was just my opinion and if there is another side of the story proving my opinion incorrect then I will humbly apologise and retract my comment.
Their website is a relic for sure, but then again so are most of it's readers...
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