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He's also (relatively) good with his money too. Think he owns about 80 houses which is pretty cool and well deserved.
– Gebben-Van Venrooy Racing-Yamaha
Calvin Vlaanderen (MXGP)
??? (MXGP)
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Quentin Prugnieres (EMX250)
??? (EMX250)
- WZ Racing Team
Oriol Oliver ? (MX2)
Mike Gwerder ? (MX2)
Dave Kooiker (EMX250)
Cato Nickel (EMX250)
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Pretty sure it was said on MX vice podcast a few months back that CV may be the single rider for the team.
Speaking of Gebben, I believe Jasikonis is doing his own thing (predominantly in Lithuania but maybe some MXGP).
I know of one team that spoke to him and he was adamant that he wanted to do his own program – seems he's all in on that.
first signs of Ben on the Beta.
4,5 mil including tax… Thats’s like 10 mil before tax
Nah.
4.5 Mill including tax is 4.5 Mill before tax.
Generally in The Netherlands when we say “including tax” we mean tax is already paid on that figure.
Gebben-Van Venrooy Racing-Yamaha will fully focus on Calvin Vlaanderen in 2023 !!
I remembered it as in around 4 million before tax, meaning roughly 2 million after. But it looks like it was 4.5 after tax based on that screenshot.
It doesnt really matter much to why i said it. The point was that even a guy that makes a million or more is still having personal sponsorships, so looking at personal sponsorships doesnt mean you don't get money from the team.
Finally official. Marchetti runs Beta Factory team with Lupino and Watson as the riders.
– MRT Racing Team-Beta Factory
Alessandro Lupino (MXGP)
Ben Watson (MXGP)
? (MXGP)
TEAM BETA MRT RACING PER IL MONDIALE MXGP 2023
https://www.mxbars.net/2022/12/15/team-beta-mrt-racing-per-il-mondiale-…
- WZ Racing Team
Oriol Oliver ? (MX2)
Mike Gwerder ? (MX2)
Dave Kooiker (EMX250)
Cato Nickel (EMX250)
Gyan Doensen (EMX125)
A couple of things...
- I'm 90% certain that round two will be Sardinia and round three will be in Switzerland.
- It sounds like there will be no Star Racing engines in MXGP next year, which is weird.
- I keep hearing that both Langenfelder and Horgmo are flying in testing at the moment.
- Prado is training with Smets, which means that he'll be with the MX2 guys. Big move...
Pit Row
Bad News:
https://racerxonline.com/2023/01/31/hitachi-ktm-fuelled-by-milwaukee-to…
Sad, it was a decent supported team to be in if you can’t get a Factory ride.
unfortunately I would guess more GP teams will close shop in the next year.
That is sad to see indeed. Also unfortunate that it is announced this late in the season. Puts Karssemakers & Gifting in a bad spot i imagine.
sad state of affairs
we were really spoilt in the last 30 years with the talent that was in the GP's
Kind of related to MXGP, but Jeremy Van Horebeek announced that he's now a test rider for Pirelli. I bet it's a decent gig.
@LewisPhillips With money/budgets being tight for most teams, what would be the reason for Pirelli to pick a retired racer and not make a deal with lets say a team like Hitachi KTM to do the test work?
Cost, I’m just spitballing numbers but say they pay the rider 50-80k salary to test ride for the year.
can you imagine how much they’d have to pay a whole team.
Test riders need to know what they are doing, and be able to convey what is happening to the engineers. You cant to that at a race weekend.
I think a retired guy would get a base setting for his bike and never change it.
The only changes will be the tires and track. So he will be able to evaluate the tyres better.
As for a team. They would always be changing set up. So to evaluate different tyres from a month ago to today would be hard as the bikes settings would have changed.
I believe that means no UK based teams are competing at Grand Prix level! Sad to see!
How times have changed from the CAS, RWJ, Molson, Swift, Motovision days!
(not including Dixon as they no longer race the uk series)
To be honest i think there would be a bunch of GP teams very happy with a main sponsor bringing in 80k in budget and free tyres.
The point by mx313 is something i hadnt thought of though.
But we have always been a UK based team !!
Last man standing entering my 34th GP season.....
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