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I'm pretty sure Holigan is punching at his weight in terms of having a perspective on marketing, series promotion and the challenges of making a team viable in professional motocross.
There's a lot of irrational cross series blather here, but surely you're not saying constructive criticism hasn't got a place?
The fact is that fans are important, as are teams, as are promoters. They all are stakeholders. Their interests also aren't always in complete alignment. There's a bit of game theory at play here to get the best outcome for everyone, rather than a promoter just running the system to maximize his own return because he can tell the others to pound sand and milk it for as much as he can in the short term.
Its never been a choice between the GP's and the Outdoor Nationals, its always been a choice between racing the GPs and a combined package of Supercross + Outdoor Nationals.
Thats a pretty attractive and more importantly lucrative proposition to any young rider with stars in their eyes.
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( that's what I mean with Don't try to punch above your weight) they can ride EMX without overseas races
I love to see 40 riders but only 15 major teams so far
motoGP starting grid also halved compared to the 80's
priveteers are gate fillers and don't have a fair chance against factory teams, everyone in their own league imo
Or maybe YS has concluded that it only needs 20 riders in a class and we're being weaned to that. I think there's a fair argument in the current setting that combining the classes doesn't create more opportunities for teams all other things being equal. But certainly YS is entitled to pursue that vision, and as I've said I am looking forward to seeing how the combined classes play out because I believe having all the talent in one class makes for better racing, and is ideal for the future if that can be sustained and the financial foundation put in place to support enough teams to make a full gate.
back in the days privateers teams had something to spend, old school was black money those days never return
Prosperity for more teams is not old school, and waving it off as impossibly nostalgic is just a decision.
more satellite teams and attract large corporations ( not just new energy drinks) 3 hour mx at mainstream TV isnt realistic
1 hour mainstream TV can do the trick
if it grows it wil be probably only mx1 at mainstream TV like in the old days 500cc and the rest will be shown at mx-life
Youthstream actually reconsidered this issue after taking into account the negative public feeling about tracks like Donington and Mallory park. I think there is a great variety of tracks on the calendar now. And so what if Mexico wasn't perfect? It was the first time they had held anything like that, it takes a while to get things right.
I agree there should be a GP in Australia (or New Zealand), but Im also intrigued by the GP's in Qatar and Thailand and look forward to seeing how things go.
Mallory and Donnington just flat out sucked.
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Show me a hill Geoff.
For me, when we had tracks like Namur and Foxhill, that was was the ultimate.. Maybe I'm just bitter those places were taken away from me lol
the track argument used to be valid but now i think there is a really good mix of terrain, from flat to hilly, from sand to hard pack and everything in between
I'm sorry but it sucks. All the amazing tracks we have in the world and their going to Mexico and Thailand? How does that make sense?
And only one of them was rode last year, and you havn't seen Thailand yet...
They race on Matterly Basin now... so using old tracks as an arguement to say all the current GP tracks are flat doesn't work.
I think the variety of the GP tracks are brilliant.. to be the best you have to be very versatile and race on everything.
They are even talking about going back to Hawkstone and Namur., they are riding Maggoria this year too, They still use old tracks.
like I said, plenty of things to complain about with the GPs but the tracks aren't one of them... they either have them all in Europe and be called a European Championship, or they have them spread around the globe and get bitched about because not everyone can go see every race in their car. Can't win.
I'd like to see a GP at Foxhill again too, but there is talk of a second British GP at Hawkstone next year which will be great if it happens!
Look at the Outdoor Nationals. In 2010 the series ended on a flat piece of ground out in the desert, now they end their season on a lake bed.
The odd flat'ish track is ok, as long as there is variety and I think there's enough variety in both championships at the moment.
I don't think the tracks are an issue. You could have a great track that costs a lot to get to, and a crappy track that's close.
The question that is begged here is why can't more afford to go, and what do the teams than can shoulder that cost get out of the trip that they wouldn't otherwise get if the series didn't require them to head to some pretty far-flung destinations? Is there a tangible benefit to them (beyond points for those rounds)?
I'm not disputing that it's a great aspiration to go abroad.
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