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The OP is biased towards the AMA though,we only have RV (and Osbourne?) as a comparison,maybe it's because he got beaten and by more than just AC222,,The MXdN is a tricky comparison and favours having 3 decent riders,something France have now,Belgium have had but generally the teams outside the USA suffer from
The format means you never get all the best riders racing in the same races,individual results often go unnoticed,for example many US fans might not have even heard of Boeverts,who caught,passed and gapped Bradshaw in a US victory or Tanel Leok who put getting on for 1 minute on Roczen in a German victory
Making the transition is definately tough,Pourcel did it with relative ease,like JMB,but it's rare,Roczen was just a kid and his mum in a wide new world and although upfront,he took a bit longer,but made it to 450 champ,but others have struggled,many hampered by injury,often by SX
Enough of the crap though,these guys are often underestimated in their own series,many of todays front runners would've probably been beaten by a fair share if they were at Glen Helen yesterday
For the life of me I can't understand how this is fucking rocket science for some people; given the small sample size of riders crossing the pond we have for comparison every year. Neither side has the faster riders, both series are equal.
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Just think if Roczen, Musquin, Pourcel, Rattray, etc. had all stayed. Then you could have fought for the "best" series name, but they all decided for a reason.
This year I tuned in MXGP and it's pretty evident that the field of Gp as a hole have higher level riders, the top 10 riders of both classes are deeper than AMA.
The only rider who could probably take out the GPs is probably Tomac he might be the best in the world at the moment.
Canadian mx nationals are number 1!!!!!!!
I'll still watch the GP's because I dig watching them anyways , and they are some great racing for sure. But the nationals just seem a little more exciting to me. On another positive note about the GP's , for some reason I've actually been able to stand Mailn's commentating this season. I think he's doing a great job this year , which I didn't think he did so stellar in years past. Kinda warming up to the guy though.
Tracks : I think both series have awesome tracks , and both series have shitty tracks. Very fast and talented dudes on both sides of the pond too.
A rising tide raises all ships... would love to hear DC's thoughts on this.
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Asshole eh ! , well that maybe true , thanks for pointing that out to me , I do try !
I would fuck off as you ask , but unfortunately I am not wrong at all , unlike you I have formed my opinion on facts and results , which makes my logic pretty sound if you ask me , where as you just cherry pick a few points to try and justify what you think is going on .
You are trying to say , that the reason the US riders are getting beat now is because they are not familiar with the tracks the GP,s or MXDN are run at ?
well that has never been an issue in the past , so why is it suddenly so important ?
From 81 to 11 the US won the nations 22 times in those 30 years , but the event was only held on US soil 3 times , the US riders at those events didn,t seem to have a problem racing in Europe on unfamiliar tracks in the other 19 years did they ?
You also claim it takes time to adjust , to try and explain the relatively poor results RV had in this years GP,s , and also Alessi,s poor showing yesterday , but if you again take a look back at previous years results , you will see that JMB came over to the US for a few early season races in 89 before the GP,s and guess what ? He went out and won his very first moto , beating Stanton , Ward etc .
In Roczens first year in the US , he also placed 2nd in his first moto , beating Barcia and Tomac .
In 2010 , Desalle came to the US for a one off ride and went 2 2 , beating Bubba .
So as you can see , it doesn,t have to take a lot of time to adjust , if your good enough , you will get the results .
For example Kenny wouldn't have his own Fox goggles.
America is the land of consumerism, marketing and advertising those things are more possible to achieve in America.
whereas mx is all the euros train for year round.
says a fair bit doesn't it.
the casual mx fan outside of europe wouldn't know the name of 5 mxgp riders.
The GP guys are much faster than so many gave credit to,despite MXdN peformances RV had near 5 months prep,said he wouldn't have a problem with the tracks as he'd ridden some before and was real happy with the bike,I thinkhe underestimated the task
Barcia,J Mart,Alessi etc all spoke about how rough the tracks are too
F1 OR MOTO GP THOUSANDS more know about those two.
Sport of mx needs to grow world wide , having to split championships does not help the mxgp or AMA.
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