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Looking at the calendar this morning & the next scheduled GP is in Russia on August 1st & the last date is Argentina on November 21st.
I cant see this season every restarting again especially with all the countries across Europe having different restrictions on travel & gatherings depending how far they are through the pandemic.
I hope I’m wrong. What’s your thoughts on this ?
I cant see this season every restarting again especially with all the countries across Europe having different restrictions on travel & gatherings depending how far they are through the pandemic.
I hope I’m wrong. What’s your thoughts on this ?
thats the major problem...there is no tv market at all in europe to get money from
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F1s TV deals are worth close to $700 Million.
Those motorsports are on a different level as far as money and exposure are concerned
National series are starting also. They might need to cut some fly away races but it will run.
There is a chance that some GPs are gonna be held but as i said before is it really worth it for the teams, riders, track owners and YS to make something that loses money to all the parties involved?
There are talks to let people watch football and other stadium sports by doing smaller segments for people.
Like group of people and next segment empty then people and so on. Current limit is 500 people for whole stadium so thats why they are looking to new options to make it financially better for football clubs. MXGP runs open air so keeping people on their segments would allow more people with same risk if they are not allowed to move between segments.
I'm not sure about how Argentina would work, because everyone (teams, riders and media) had already paid for everything to go there. That seems to be confusing amongst a lot of people.
I believe there should be a new MXGP calendar next week that is a lot more realistic than previous editions.
It doesn't get fans like the street races, but its a start ,and its FIM sanctioned, which is how come I am allowed to ride it .
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The lack of spectators is the biggest difference. F1 still has a massive incentive to grab as much of that 700 million as possible. Where as can a MXGP race justify the associated costs without spectators?
On top of that , the big teams in F1 employ around 1000 people, plus supply chains that multiply that. So governments rightly give them more attention than an MXGP team that might employ what 15 people? If Chase Carey (Liberty Media chairman) wants to speak to top officials in the Austria (where the first 2 races are due to be held), he can probably organise a call with the chancellor, Guiseppe has clout, but nothing like that.
F1 teams are predominantly based in the UK. People cant easily travel back into the UK from continental Europe right now, but F1 is looking like they will get special consideration. Teams will send significantly less people than normal to the races, but allowing a few hundred staff back into the UK in order to keep the tens of thousands of jobs in F1 teams and supply chains is probably deemed more worthwhile.
And finally as countries are starting to open up. Governments I am sure are keen to make special rules to show an F1 car going around an F1 track in the foothills of the Austrian mountains to literally hundreds of millions of people. Frankly, most top government officials probably don’t really know what motocross is.
To put it simply, I love Motocross, but it is much lower on the pecking order. And frankly not as important to anywhere near the amount of people compared to F1 or MotoGP
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