My Thoughts (And Yours If You wanna Add In) on The Leon MXGP

bents wrote:

The riders are awesome and will race whatever is in front of them, but these crap locations and crap tracks need to go. Have fewer events...

The riders are awesome and will race whatever is in front of them, but these crap locations and crap tracks need to go. Have fewer events then, but half empty gates in these terrible venues that don't grow the sport at all make no sense to me. The full time guys that race for teams that can afford to show up are fast as shit and professional in every way. From the video I saw it looked another barren chicken licks raceway and it is supposed to be a world championship. I don't get this philosophy at all outside of (from what people say) Loungo lining his pockets at these terrible venues.

Harry Backmon wrote:

I understand your point. What I like about it is at least they are trying to get all around the world. If it is a world...

I understand your point. What I like about it is at least they are trying to get all around the world. If it is a world championship, then it needs to go around the world. I think they're doing pretty well. Europe, Asia, South America, U.S. & Middle East. Pretty impressive. And those guys are racing on just about every kind of soil possible.

The more I watch, the more impressive I find the whole thing.

Harry Backmon wrote:

Also, bents, wanted to address your statement about "not growing the sport." How do you know? I saw a lot of kids in the crowd yesterday...

Also, bents, wanted to address your statement about "not growing the sport." How do you know? I saw a lot of kids in the crowd yesterday. Were the seeds planted for some future motocrossers from Mexico? The Qatar race, you could probably convince me of that one, but again, at least they are going to the M.E. It's a man-made track, but it races pretty good. Plus, it's just another test. You wanna be world champ, then you gotta go to Qatar and get some points at a place that is way different from your home on a different type of soil, has chicks with their heads covered, different food, different culture, etc., but that is part of the challenge.

rutcross wrote:

How did wonder boy do?lap up to 2nd?

Harry Backmon wrote:

I understand your point. What I like about it is at least they are trying to get all around the world. If it is a world...

I understand your point. What I like about it is at least they are trying to get all around the world. If it is a world championship, then it needs to go around the world. I think they're doing pretty well. Europe, Asia, South America, U.S. & Middle East. Pretty impressive. And those guys are racing on just about every kind of soil possible.

The more I watch, the more impressive I find the whole thing.

Harry Backmon wrote:

Also, bents, wanted to address your statement about "not growing the sport." How do you know? I saw a lot of kids in the crowd yesterday...

Also, bents, wanted to address your statement about "not growing the sport." How do you know? I saw a lot of kids in the crowd yesterday. Were the seeds planted for some future motocrossers from Mexico? The Qatar race, you could probably convince me of that one, but again, at least they are going to the M.E. It's a man-made track, but it races pretty good. Plus, it's just another test. You wanna be world champ, then you gotta go to Qatar and get some points at a place that is way different from your home on a different type of soil, has chicks with their heads covered, different food, different culture, etc., but that is part of the challenge.

bents wrote:

Fair enough Harry. I do appreciate the level of discomfort that it takes to become a world champion, which is why I think we can agree...

Fair enough Harry. I do appreciate the level of discomfort that it takes to become a world champion, which is why I think we can agree and respect the accomplishments of Brad Lackey, Donny Schmidt et al, for taking on the challenge and winning a world title. In this respect I do think it is a tougher challenge to win a world championship than an AMA championship.

As for selling the sport, don't get me wrong, I'm all for spreading the mx gospel but there are a few locations where I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze, but hey, not my series man!

And, as far as pure mx racing goes, both of these series haul ass.

Harry Backmon wrote:

Also, bents, wanted to address your statement about "not growing the sport." How do you know? I saw a lot of kids in the crowd yesterday...

Also, bents, wanted to address your statement about "not growing the sport." How do you know? I saw a lot of kids in the crowd yesterday. Were the seeds planted for some future motocrossers from Mexico? The Qatar race, you could probably convince me of that one, but again, at least they are going to the M.E. It's a man-made track, but it races pretty good. Plus, it's just another test. You wanna be world champ, then you gotta go to Qatar and get some points at a place that is way different from your home on a different type of soil, has chicks with their heads covered, different food, different culture, etc., but that is part of the challenge.

Harry Backmon wrote:

Also, bents, wanted to address your statement about "not growing the sport." How do you know? I saw a lot of kids in the crowd yesterday...

Also, bents, wanted to address your statement about "not growing the sport." How do you know? I saw a lot of kids in the crowd yesterday. Were the seeds planted for some future motocrossers from Mexico? The Qatar race, you could probably convince me of that one, but again, at least they are going to the M.E. It's a man-made track, but it races pretty good. Plus, it's just another test. You wanna be world champ, then you gotta go to Qatar and get some points at a place that is way different from your home on a different type of soil, has chicks with their heads covered, different food, different culture, etc., but that is part of the challenge.

Pakoyz250f wrote:

Well this dude was ready to race haha My opinion of course is so biased since I'm Mexican and I'm still excited but I've seen the...

Well this dude was ready to race haha My opinion of course is so biased since I'm Mexican and I'm still excited but I've seen the grow of this race, the fans know the riders and some riders already have a good fan base, people were spending on merchandise but what I Liked is how Tim Gajser is bringing his own merchandise, did you see in the second moto 4 guys in yellow one in a sombrero of course haha well I was one of them haha I would like that the other riders or the teams would bring their stuff