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I'm addicted to the Motovision series. Currently on the 1995 season.
Can anyone tell me why the riders changed numbers mid-season? Jimmy button started out as #59 and mid season became #71. Several other riders changed numbers as well. I would love to understand why.
For the Belgians...what ever happened to the Kesterheide track? Looks pretty cool. Reminds me of a flatter and narrower Washougal with all the trees.
For the N. Irish....where was the Ballykelly track? Was it on the East side of town on Tully Road? What happened to that track?
So much to dissect in these Motovision videos. I'm really enjoying them. The track diversity of the GPs in the 90s is amazing. San Marino 1995 makes Carlsbad look loamy. Haha!
Can anyone tell me why the riders changed numbers mid-season? Jimmy button started out as #59 and mid season became #71. Several other riders changed numbers as well. I would love to understand why.
For the Belgians...what ever happened to the Kesterheide track? Looks pretty cool. Reminds me of a flatter and narrower Washougal with all the trees.
For the N. Irish....where was the Ballykelly track? Was it on the East side of town on Tully Road? What happened to that track?
So much to dissect in these Motovision videos. I'm really enjoying them. The track diversity of the GPs in the 90s is amazing. San Marino 1995 makes Carlsbad look loamy. Haha!
Motovision series are unreal. Can't believe I'm getting old enough that it is now considered history!
It was based on riders rank the year before.
And riders who came from another class or another kind of championship (like US or australian championship for example) without having score any points the year before didnt have a regular number all year long...
Like Button in 125 MX World Championship in 1995.
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After 2000 the club organized great races for the Belgian Championship till 2015. Then the ground got sold and the family selling it, got into a beef with the club and chose to sell it to an "nature-loving" association called "Natuurpunt" who had other plans with the area. Now the club is fighting to survive because the new track has no history and create a new legacy in a country like Belgium where motocross is pretty death at the moment isn't simple.
(If you search Motocross Kesterheide you will find a ton of cool footage.)
It used to hold the Easter 2 day event for the Ulster championship every year and was unbelievablely rough.
I cant remember the year it was shut maybe around 2010 or so
Here was the location can still make out most of the out line of the track.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BbcZbBcJ58hcu4nt9
1995 125cc GP of San Marino, Round #9, Jimmy Button #71
1995 125cc GP of France, Round #10, Jimmy Button #59
Why????
Here is Alessandro Puzar in 1995 at round #10 in France, he is #75
Here is Alessandro Puzar in 1995 at round #12 in Germnay, he is #111
And it's not just the 125 class....the 250 class had a few riders switch numbers mid-season as well...
Pit Beirer in 1995 at round #3 in Switzerland, he is #76
And here is Pit Beirer in 1995 at round #7 is Sweden, he is #61
This affected Badar Manneh who had been #61 up to that point....
This is very confusing. Why was it necessary to switch numbers mid season?
At this time there really wasn’t one central promoter. Each race was individual and ran under FIM rules. So each local promoter would take entries and assign numbers to non ranked riders on their own terms. Hence why Puzar was #75 but at fox hill he was 77 then somewhere else 111.
So essentially a wild car would have entered through their local promoter with 75 forcing him to change his number and visa versa
Tortelli in the 250's as well was amazing against everts
(Although in Pit's case, once he switched from 76 to 61, he kept it for the remainder of the season, but maybe he just wanted to and nobody had a problem with it)
Maybe my explanation wasnt clear...
riders who came from another class or another kind of championship (like US or australian championship for example) without having score any points the year before didnt have a regular number all year long...
This does not explain why the number would change mid-season. It only explains that it could change. But why WOULD it change remained unclear. Just because you don't score points the year before doesn't mean it is impossible to have the same number all year.
109's explanation was more thorough. But I appreciate your attempt to help with my inquiry. Cheers.
Except a rider who was defending world champ the year before in another class. Those world champs took the first number available in the previous year ranking. And they wore it all year long...
Like Everts in 1992 (#59) 250cc class.
Like Albertyn in 1993 (#67) 250cc class.
Like Moore in 1995 (#41) 250cc class.
All of them were 125cc world champs the year before.
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In 1995 he had #111 in the 125cc-class (mind the black numberplates), wich was his maiden class that season. He became worldchampion after a year long battle with fellow Italian Alessio Chiodi and Tom Vialle's dad Frédéric.
The #75 (mind the darkgreen numberplates) was when he raced a 250cc GP as a wildcard according to me. In 1996 Puzar moved to 250cc full time (I think with #43), to return to 125cc again in 1997 on a TM.
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