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... but you could say AMA SX is alot different with it being on much larger tracks and less arenacross style, but he won so that is that! It would be awesome if he went over to the US full time, but i just don't see him going now!
Saying that Tedesco, Short, Millsaps etc. are on par with Cairoli, Philippaerts, Nagl to name a few is crazy
it's two diferent worlds, us kids grow up dreaming on the sx title and euro kids on the mx world title.........
in usa the money is on sx, its their prime championship and its the most competitive in the world and the 2º is in australia....
in europe its all on mx, theres the national series and the best race the world championship....sx is so secundary that they can't even put up a decent euro sx championship.....only a few one-off races with prestige......
i dont think it can be compared cuz its really diferent and thats why some are better is sx while others do better in mx.....
most euros that come to us are from france, chancing JMBs dream, and that is cuz france is probably the biggest euro country in sx.......
and then there's the economy of the sport, usa was its biggest market so its only logical that it payed better, and global media showed it, so all the best riders from the world wanted to get their share of it, and the us riders stoped going over to loose money......
still there were some mx specialists that didnt risk it cuz they made good money on mxwc.......
but now things are changing, us economy is down and there are not much well payed rides anymore, not even for all the big american names.....add to that the fact that the us big sponsors are investing in europe now.......
i think us fans should drop it and get real.......spot being so blindfolded and look around.....you got the greatest sx series in the world for sure.....but for those who like mx, things are spread and there's 2 great series to follow, and just cuz you put sx first and we dont, mxgp series is growing and getting better for the top teams, so maybe its no longer worse then us outdoors..........
so i think that it is those ignorant us guys that bad talk the mxgp and the mxdn, out of ignorance, that are missing a lot of great motocross.......cuz from what i see here there are a lot of american mx fans that follow the sport and now about it, where ever the races are.............
IMO, both series are equals overall. They have their good and their bad., but Ican't believe I'm still hearing people that don't want to throw any respect to the euros after the MXDN.
Pit Row
don't know if it is exactly true, and also know that the biggest deal for yamaha europe are the road bikes.......
still it kind of shows why it was not logical for americans to come and race the mxgps, and why most of the europes big names wanted to race in usa........
but i see thing changing, it is getting tougher for top americans to get a good deal and us companies are growing interest in europe, and with the 18 rule, i can see more and more us riders to cross the pound and join jimmy albertson, specially if he does good..........
Dungey and RV aren't any faster than Cairoli, Desalle etc either.
Cairoli beat Dungey at the Nations as did desalle when he didn't crash...
I would doubt either of those guys would win the World title in their first year... they are on the level of the top GP guys but They would just be another couple of fast guys on that level looking for a title.
People treat the riders from different championships as if they were world apart in riding ability. "The GP riders are like B-riders in the US" and what have you, this comes from both sides. It makes me question if everyone is watching the same races I am. We have american riders doing good (I'm talking individually here) at the MXdN/MXoN. The top US Nationals riders (who are Americans, that is) are right up there in the mix with the top GP riders. In the US Nationals we have former GP riders being right up there in the mix with the top american riders.
Each race has a winner, but as things are nowadays, I can't say I see any real evidence of some sort of inherited superiority of riders hailing from one side of the world or the other. Apparently some people do, but I just don't. I see great riders coming from all over the place, and it never fails to excite me.
Yeah, the talent pool is probably deeper in the GP than it is in the Nationals, this despite the fact that the GP is constantly loosing riders who go over the the US (SX and money, baby). But this talent-depth is to be expected when you consider that Europe is, population-wise, two times larger than the US of A and Canada. Saying that the GP probably has a deeper talent pool than the Nationals shouldn't be seen as something offensive, it's more of the way the cookie crumbles, and some basic math. Per capita the US produces just as much talent as Europe, I'm sure.
Anyone who fails to respect a rider who races in either the GP or the Nationals is an uneducated fool. Long live the greatest sport on earth.
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