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David Luongo and I are working on something really, really cool, it won’t happen in 2023 because there are things to work out like how it would work, but I can tell you we are both extremely excited , it’s something everyone has always wanted, everyone motocross fan as wanted. You don’t want to mess with the MXoN this event works, it’s a celebration.
If we can work out a way not mess with this race but have something totally different that we can fit it into MXGP and AMA Pro Motocross, that would not be taking away from either, it would be a second celebration every year.
Eric Geboers and I watched the Anaheim supercross, none of us could get into the Knothole club so we ended up in the stands buying beers, and Eric, who I loved, and Eric is like, ‘it is my dream to have a race to bring Pro Motocross and MXGP together at Namur and one half of the track will be all AMA MX sponsors and the other half of the track will be all MXGP sponsors and we bring the top 20 riders in either class and I’m like, ‘ I think that’s a great idea but it’s crazy!’ At that time the relationship with what was Youthstream and MX Sports was very different.
After Guiseppe reached out in 2016 after Maggiora, we have started working together and now David and I have become really good friends and we see a lot alike as fans. The systems are different and it is what it is and we are the way we are. When Eric Geboers died, I remember writing a memorial for him that that was his dream to have this race and, if we ever did have this race, the winner gets the Eric Geboers cup and if this works out, that’s what’s going to happen.
And we all as fans have had that thought, but I have never heard it articulated so well optimistically and so emotionally as Eric that night. He was like, ‘ you must make this happen, you must make this happen.’ Again, i thought yeah, when hell freezes over, but things changed for the better so we are re-visiting that. It is just on the drawing board, there is a lot to worlk through but how bitching would that be?
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only 11 fans and a stray coyote showed up on race day.
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The US tracks are different and will provide some variety for the MXGP, then the MXDN will be in Europe most years anyway which will provide variety for the best US riders.
The only condition is that it would need to be around mid-season on the AMA calendar to give the teams a chance to nail bike setup, but not too late in either calendar so that intensity has dropped.
That's the easiest, most logical, lowest cost way to do it, and the fans will love it.
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Only problem is the age limit in MX2. Are you going to do this system only at the MXGP/450 class and keep the MX2 and 250 on his own as sideshow races?
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Something like that, Oh please Mister Coombs, Davey answer my questions! Namur off course isn't really an option because the FIM thinks it's to dangerous, the only option to run a race there is like Isle of Man TT or North West 200 Road Race. Find heaps of money and a compromise with the city and the neighbors living almost on the track and make it happen!
I'd think Ferrandis would do pretty well in an event like that. Course any of them would do pretty well, that's quite a list of riders.
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