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I'm working up to "The Rock" status.
I said all I need to say about the past already.
I'm just watching people do the same ol shit, go ballistic over shit they know little about.
You need me around to explain why all pro moto series are businesses, and you are going to be disappointed if you expect business decisions to be "good for the sport" based on your criteria. You should be angry at the FIM if you think the sport is in bad hands.
The MX part of the FIM sees this as an opportunity to spread FIM into developing regions like Middle East, Asia, and Russia. I don't think they give a shit what you think, because you are not thinking, just reacting.
Now it is my turn to question motives.
Your insistence on posting to the world that you are not a fan anymore over and over again is suspicious!
If you are sincere about your concern for the sport, become an FIM representative and do a better job yourself, or work the local level and make it better.
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Unless, GL is really just doing this with the long term vision of building the sport up in the rest of the world so eventually he can have full gates from a broader spectrum of riders.
You know, all these other countries with thousands of potential MX'rs with the disposeable income to afford 8k bikes on a regular basis along with the dealer networks and tracks to support these huge numbers in Mexico, Brazil, Qatar, etc.. Huge feeder potential there no doubt..
It seems like YS is doing things more like the most successful US racing series. Emulating something that works well (follow the money, use just enough riders to get by, have an exciting main event...) is a bad idea?
You people have become so knee-jerk negative about things that you don't think any more.
You dreamed up a false and romantic notion about things, and its been shattered by reality. It takes time to unravel. Smoke some pot. Play with the dog.
don't think so ...
Look at the results of the MXON the last years .... the only MX2 riders who can race the MX1 guys are Herlings, Roczen and the USA boys.
So next season, Herlings wil go for a top 10 place and the other MX2 riders probably don't make the top 15 ....
I really wonder what's going on with Kongols, usually when people are THAT upset, they have some personal suffering feeding their frustration, maybe something is going on with Kegums, and him seeing the cost they are paying or something? Meanwhile we in Sweden most likely have a similar agreement, and I just think people are happy the event is still running?
Maybe the European scene is not able to produce as many good riders because of a new era, lack of interested rather than GL by some magical influence is halting progress on the may local tracks all over Europe.
I see the Swedish GP as often as I can, and ALL the best riders we have get a shot via the wild cards etc, this year we had 10 guys qualifying, while just 1 ending up top 20. In what other scenario would that change? How is GL to blame for that? If we had 8 of them doing top ten on home soil, maybe the gates would be more stacked the next race? I mean who is to blame for the lack of quality riders from each country?
Feel free to add some valid info that can change my mind rather than me being just clueless. I'm totally open to the most reasonable argument, and I have no personal attachment to GL, or an axe to grind elsewhere either.
I have seen the "Contracts" written between the FIM & YS , I've seen the structure of YS and it's board of directors and I doubt very much that if they were examined by qualified lawyers that they would prove to be legal .
I say yer full of shit!
3 hours MX is great for hardcore fans but not realistic average attention span isnt that long
the lang term goal is TV channels go pay for broadcasting (thats why international races etc)
MotoGP startgrid reduced by half 2009 was bottom low 18 riders
That's the diff between American Mx and the Gp's,in America DC realizes that without the privateers there is no show,so he tries to make things work for everyone the best he can. Luongo does not give a shit how his show really looks to people as long as he is keeping his main payers. ( the factories) happy!
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you compare apples to oranges, national to international, semi-professional to professional
no room for priveteers anymore, take it or leave it (same happend in motoGP during the 80's look where they are now)
No one is forced (market decides) European privateers have their own national championship
For most of the GP series that is a joke.
BUT, if YS is going to have these races on the other side of the planet they should pay travel, start money, a good purse, and stop charging riders big money to be the show.
At least then they would have a race. A true 40 man per moto with "GP" riders race.
The problem is YS has figured out it's cheaper to just half-ass bait the top 15 to attend and forget the rest.
I'm sure people are frustrated to some degree, we all are at times, but when there's a company, a ruler running all emperor Nero on us, one should have something more than this GL is douche? Where are the hundreds of victims of some sort, racers, team owners willing to voice their trauma? Even people from Syria, Iran are able to spit things out, but actually risking their lives, and all I get: we might have a racing organization that has flaw in it's legal structure? Is that the reason the gates isn't filled with enough talent?
It's like Big frustrations towards KTM, no facts, just "they suck". Mkay...
It's like you guys see hundreds of top 10 guys lying in fetus position somewhere, or Eurosport offering free airtime, but they all got the finger because GL just felt for it?
But if American SX is so good at bringing up the core of the sport, why do they keep going to the GPs to recruit factory riders?
Now that we have that out of the way did you go to the GP? If so what was your impression.
However, the best players always play in the Champions League never the modest, guess what Motocross isnt any different
What are we free market Capitalists or everyone equally communists?
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