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Maggiora is obviously one of the best tracks around but there's so many countries that could host a GP if the costs weren't astronomical. When was the last time Austria held a gp, they've got some awesome tracks. Denmark is the same, this is before we even get onto outside of Europe.
All these Italian rounds are really beginning to bore me now
Yes it’s elitist, yes if you consistently outside top 10 your become less relevant, but this is the highest level.
It comes across you wanna make everyone a winner.
Often we see the EMX classes with huge entries, there is something for everyone.
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I don’t want to make everyone a winner, far from it, I want the world championship to be two ultra competitive classes that’s always full, as it should be. Not 2 half gates of riders that aren’t even all the best guys
2015 - Gajser wins the MX2 title after Herlings dislocates his hip.
2016 - They raced different classes. Gajser wins the MXGP title.
2017 - Cairoli wins the title after Herlings has a poor start due to a broken hand. Herlings MAY have won the title if his bike hadn’t thrown a chain.
2018 - Herlings dominates, no other way to describe it.
2019 - Herlings breaks foot in pre season training but comes on very strong towards the end of the season. Gajser takes the title.
2020 - Herlings breaks his neck after dominating the restart of the championship in Italy. Gajser takes the title.
2021 - Championship of all Championships. All the main title runners are fit & healthy. Herlings misses 4 races due to a cracked collarbone. Herlings takes the title.
With the law of averages Gajser is more likely to race an unfit Herlings than a fit Herlings racing an unfit Gajser.
And Herlings didn't miss four races due to a cracked collarbone, he missed 3 races due to a cracked shoulder blade, and one race because he crashed and his bike got run over. It was Gajser that broke his collarbone 8 days before Riola and didn't missed a moto.
It's quite simple: A serie like the Dutch Masters has 25% of people in attendance compared to a GP. Their ticket price is 35% of what a GP ticket costs. They also don't get the 1.000 euro per entry from the riders. And still they can offer 30.000 euro per raceweekend in purse. MXGP/infront charges 1.000 euro per entry and does not offer purses.
Is there any other motocross series that rivals MXGP for live coverage, backstage broadcasts, YouTube content etc ?
Ultimately professional sport is funded by revenue gained from marketing your sport.
Supercross have nailed it well too the casual monster struck fans.
MXGP have their media packages which the teams can use to market themselves.
What’s the alternative in today’s world of expensive travel?
How much prize money would need to be paid to pay for a team to travel the world & be competitive ?
In the ideal world media like MXGP TV costs the series promoter to invest in, so if you pay prize money in sacrifice of decent global media, then the teams may actually loose money.
I hope they take some action. Like refusing to start at their next GP when the broadcast is already live.
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And if they’re going to these ‘important new markets’ (eg Qatar, China, Mexico) because it’s in the best interests of the sport then why don’t they go back to them? I’ll answer that one for you. Because it was only ever a cash cow for the promoter, no one else, and once the gullible government realises they’ve been had over that’s the end of that.
No one is getting ‘promotion’ or ‘marketing’ from 15 bikes racing in a shithole in front of nobody.
So perhaps your missing something..
I’m sure I read somewhere there was financial support for freight at fly Ways ? Can’t remember the figure.
At the end of the day it’s a World Series, in a normal non pandemic world the sport needs to reach new markets, date to travel & grow, even if it’s not perfect.
Big brands think 20 years ahead.
Riders go to US for Sx.
Tbh you just seem really negative about the GP’s, when the GP riders have been proving for a decade they are clearly leading the world as they should be.
Why are you so negative ?
This is the highest level, yes it unfair guys outside top 15 don’t have the same level of support at the elite guys. But hey it’s a free world, Anyone of those guys outside top 15 have a chance to win at some point & secure a better team. The top riders will loose their rides if they don’t maintain the highest standards. This is the high pressure sports world.
It’s important the sport travels the world, the sport benefits from the exposure & that important for the future.
To your first point, if you’re not on a team, there is no chance to earn yourself a ride on a factory team because if you’re not on a team you can’t race. That’s the whole point. In America a guy like Freddie Noren or Phil Nicoletti can turn up and race as a privateer and earn themselves a ride on a factory team. There is no chance to do that in Europe and that is wrong
It's not the Lucas Oil Nationals RG1.
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