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Imo it's more a question how you make MX2 more attractive for guys like Talviku (5th in 2020) who doesn't have such a ride and still prefers emx250 over mx2.
Of the 2021 EMX250 top 10, Lapucci, Horgmo, Fredriksen, Everts, and Weckman left the class. So did Sydow, who was 14th (but both Horgmo and Sydow have raced MX2 fulltime before).
From the 2020 season, Benistant, Guadagnini, De Wolf, Locurcio, Bøgh Damm and Facchetti made the step towards MX2 in 2021.
And so on...
Not sure if that's the answer but something needs to happen pretty quickly otherwise we'll soon be down to less than 20 per class.
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But that doesn't fix the underlying issue that MX2 is too expensive and it's too difficult to find funding for it compared to EMX250. That has created a really strong EMX250 class and made it even worse when smaller European sponsors can pay less into the EMX class and yet get roughly the same coverage. They don't care about potential eyeballs in Asia, Middle East or South America that a MX2 rider can get.
And then we have people like Lewis Phillips trying to plant a taught that people are sandbagging in EMX250 and the fix is to get rid of it altogether, which is such a flawed idea in my opinion. I love MX Vice and what Lewis does but man he has gone nuts with his ideas lately, maybe he would do all an favor if he focuses on USA full time instead of trying to tear down the foundations of the great system that has been developed in the GPs through the last decade or two
Definitely be better if all those 250Fs were trying to qualify for mx2 and earning a spot on the 40 rider gate was a big deal rather than buying a spot on a 25 rider gate.
Emx open leads to nothing and reduces the field of mxgp.
The afe limit is stupid anyway.
Have emx open guys like butron, tropepe, sandner, van berkel etc ride some wildcards at gp's they are good at and fill the field in mxgp.
And have mxgp guys like Sterry consider if they should rejoin mx2.
Butrón has showed the last few seasons why he has no place in MXGP anymore. His last decent season was 2018 with a 13-12 as a best result in Latvia. Before that season he could count on his good starts, but he's lost them aswell.
Sandner and Tropepe could do decent on a wildcard-based principle, but a complete season? They never were consistent enough in the past, neither in MXGP or MX2.
Belgian Jens Getteman for example: he showed up in 2 of the 4 rounds, getting 9-8-10-9 results. He's 12th in the standings now. He's a decent racer, but he never got any remarkable results in MXGP or MX2 and never reached the top 10. The last time he had a go full time was 2013 I think.
If guys like Kohút, Ivanov, Jošt and Croci are in the top 10 standings, you know the level of that class is poor. The difference between MXGP-MX2 and EMXOpen is way too big. Ask Jimmy Clochet.
The discussion is about how to get decent size fields in GP's, as in like we had long time ago with 40 riders lining up.
Reality is that if you want more guys lining up that it will be riders who will fill up midpack and back of the field. Except for maybe 5 emx250 riders who would be consistent top 15 guys in MX2 (and i question if it will be 5).
Guys like Butron, Tropepe, sandner, etc. will fight for a point at the tracks that suit them, it's not like they will be what we have in MX2 with guys like vd Auware en Lambillon being 5+ seconds slower then the guys at the back (!)
To "get a decent field" should be about quality, not quantity because you like a field of 30 riders more as 25, no matter the level of those extra riders. Again, every single rider of EMXOpen has no place (anymore) in MXGP-class. Maybe Sandner does, but it's clear after all those years of wildcards and fill-in rides he doesn't have the resources to do it as a privateer and he simply isn't good enough for a factory ride.
And about Vander Auwera and Lambillon: those are just kids with rich dads who want to say to their friends "they're full-time GP-riders". They're just a disgrace for the sport.
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