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They better fucking charge us less on mxlife for those races.
But you really do have to think what it will do for the MX2 riders and teams
I am certainly interested to see how it works out, but as you said yourself Geoff, most people watch the top ten riders, and the TV cameras also follow the top ten riders.
What happens when the sponsors of the MX2 teams realize that their riders are generally not in the top ten and getting no TV, do they start pulling their money and the sport is back in the same situation with 20 rider gate with the MX1 and MX2 combined?
Also what happens when there is a battle up front with two MX1 riders going for the race win for their class, while ten seconds back the top two MX2 riders are locked in battle, which battle gets the coverage.
Then again with the racing being shown online, I guess instead of just having one stream they could have two or even three simultaneous streams going, one focusing on MX1 and the other on MX2, now that would be cool and could help ensure coverage for both MX1 and MX2 riders.
Imagine a big screen or two screen at home with both streams running side by side!
The thought of seeing some of the worlds best riders racing no matter what size bike is great, but will the negatives out weight the positives, I guess the only way to find out is to try.
On another note Geoff, are you planning on making it to a few rounds of the Australian MX Nationals while you are over here.
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Check out this video I just stumbled upon! The first few minutes are great from a 2-stroke sound point of view, but the video gets a little it more interesting around 3 minute mark. I wish the tracks were still like this and started out with grass underneath.
Ryan Hunt & Edwin Evertson 1990 Irish GP Practice
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more people put their old home footage on YouTube fantastic
video reminds me of this
Organizing GPs in Mexico/Brasil/Thailand is the most stupid idea ever in these times of economic turndown unless YS would support every team (the small teams too!) to get there. Combining the MX2 and MX1... really?
There are for sure a lot of old school features that thankfully are long gone (dust for one), and some that are sadly, but necessarily past their time, but not everything.
Pit Row
The two series are so different they could nearly be different sports, but both versions have awesome riders and special circuits.
If the small teams are struggling so much wouldn't the combined race make it easier for them? They don't have to go to the overseas races and they don't have riders running inside the top 15 anyway, so what is the problem??
The still get 14 GPs in the year and enough exposure for their sponsors.
It is nothing new that small teams struggle to make money from MX. Its been like day since day one in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
People just argue to argue sometimes.
Geoff
I always try to stay objective when looking at changes, I see some positives and negatives to the change, but looking forward to seeing how it plays out.
Going to be interesting here in Australia as well next year, heading back to the traditional formats, well of sorts, two motos per class, will be interesting to see how it affects crowd numbers in a couple of years time, not that our crowds are huge but at least visually they have looked larger the past couple of years.
One thing I certainly agree with that you said, I to am looking forward to Ferris charging through the 450s in the combined overseas races this year.
I think Dean (Ferris) has potential to be a top three guy in 2013. He reminds me a lot of Chad and Andrew when they first came here.
Geoff
That line right there pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with todays MXGP racing. Don't get me wrong, Luongo doesn't give a rats ass about the people watching, but he damn well cares even less about the riders participating!
The riders being happy, and being able to attend all the races and make a living at it, should be the top priority for Youthstream.
When the riders aren't happy, or aren't able to afford to go to every races and make a living racing their bike, the sport falls down in every aspect: TV, spectators, sponsors, tracks, you name it. It's as simple as that.
They are the ones risking their lives every weekend at the hands of some greedy chub that couldn't tell the difference between a dirtbike and a christmas tree, all while he's trying to make GP motocross into some kind of elite sport that IT WILL NEVER BE.
Luongo's system is broken, and the only reason this circus keeps going is because he throws some fish at the top teams now and again to keep them from pulling the plug. He doesn't even care about a team like DIGA that had a podium contender like Butron for christs sake.
Less coverage = less value for sponsors and teams. Less value = less $$ for the teams and riders. Less $ = more teams folding and less riders.
Geoff's already told us that he doesn't care about riders outside of the top ten. At least with separate races there were two top 10s for him to care about.
FMX sellout stadiums around the world at least they get it
trendsetters always get ridiculed when something new kicks off, macintosh was ridiculed
less grumpy more positive folks we need not just in MX
and the thai race will have issues.
eg thailand hosted the footsal world cup (indoor soccer), they built a purpose built stadium that fifa canned cause it wasn't up to standard and had safety issues.
sounds great on paper but.......well maybe the euro guy can pull it together, i do hope so
EMX= European championship 125 & 250 small teams and privateers (semi-professionals)
GP= World championship 250 & 450 Factory teams (full-professionals)
No one left behind but Don't try to punch above your weight
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