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Trip, I get that you're upset, but to say that DC doesn't understand tracks and racing is beyond dumb.
From what Im seeing mxsports is going to ruin MX to it's core. Im sorry and I try to stay neutral about any issue till I hear both sides but I cannot see MXsports side being valid....seems more like a Luongo type operation and the track specs sound like it too. I am furious about losing GH ....anbd WILL NOT be going to Pala if that is where it is moved to.
Think about this.....what about 50% of people that attend GH as an event to enjoy like the superbowl i.e. fair weather mx fans...how are they going to know this happened? For some families they go as a tradition and will not know anything about the specifics of the "changes" and might be offended there is no GH round....it will sound like this "Pala? where is that place?" "We go to GH every year now they moved it to this place called pala?"...Think about those people ....at leasy 75% of them won't go to PALA or won't even be informed about it and this years national at Pala will flop bigtime if held there, For a lot of the fans that attend GH every year it is more of a traditional race to attend...
Only 60 days befor ethe race is supposed to go off and it is not gonna happen plus it's been on the schedule the WHOLE time??? One guy on here alrerady bought his tickets and now has nothing to go to ....think about how many more people worldwide that have already done the same and don't know about this......
Is it 30 plus 2, too inconsistent for TV?!?
Things change, sport changes etc. You may not like it, but it still has to happen. If motocross stays a small sport without income from mainstream companies we can stay the same. But when someone is paying money, when you have to make it easy for television etc then we have to change.
I always feel sorry for the fans when this happens, but for others these are improvement that can make them richer. If DC doesn't put business on top of his agenda Luongo will make a new bid for the nationals and he will get it, believe me. What the hardcore fans think is not very important to those in charge. They must look on the business side and the future of the sport. They have to make decisions that will make them impopular, but after all that's happens to the boss in any business.
It's just business. The sooner you realize that the easier the transition will be. Hate against Luongo or YS wil only divide an already small sport.
IMHO fourstrokes are the bad guys, those are the real threat to our sport.
Where have you guys been the last 3 years?
We almost lost the whole ball of wax to YS, everyone's yelling about how the tracks aren't groomed enough, how the TV isn't enough, attendance isn't enough, there aren't
enough VIP areas, there must be flushing toilets, powerwashers for everyone,
the list went on and on.
Now he tries to give the 'mx public" what they screamed for and that's not enough.
Maybe half of you guys crying should go back an read the posts you put up
when Youthstream was sniffin around..................
YS have done all the above things for GPs except groom the tracks, they leave pretty much from Saturday until Sunday evening unless it gets really dangerous which is great that is what you want to see pros on rough tracks, with variety of terrain.
yea yea yea, we know already.
Pit Row
leaving the track would be good on a soft soil, but on the watered hard pack we get it just makes for one lined tracks, borin races...
Not: "MX SPORTS DROPS HISTORIC MX TRACK UNDER INFLUENCE OF GREEDY OCTOPUS!"
as Mr. Dog Wilson says above, 11 of the 12 nationals have no issue.
Sanctioning body has the right to ask for upgrades or whatever and the track has a right to agree or not. As Dave said "It's business",
Won't be the end.
GPs have had great racing the last couple of years, have you not been watching? You also get 2 days of racing.
And what fake tracks are you talking about? there are only a couple on the schedule, Turkey and the UK GP I think. and the racing is still pretty good on them.
Valkensward, Mantova, St Jean DeAngely, Uddevella, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Lommel, Lierop, Teutchental, Fermo and more have all have been around for years and years...
YS is doing a great job, and Davey is looking to bring the nationals to another level as well, just let them get on with taking motocross outside the little box it was in and let them get on with it.
Neither is perfect and both have negative but things have to move on and both are doing that just be glad that both series are striving to get better and bring more outside media, sponsor and fan attention to motocross.. and you can watch both on the internet free it is win win for the fans. Lets try and look at the positives.
They are doing it because they can get away with it. They used some of their own money(?) and lot's of money that comes from the teams/riders to make those improvement.
Hopefully they can now attract big companies and get loads of money from marketing. Will this money return to the teams and riders, of course not it will make YS richer.
Why? because they can get away with it.
If the teams like to grow financially they have to go out and find some big sponsors of their own. At least they have a new format that makes it easier.
Great looking races with good facilities, live on Motors-TV and on the internet. All riders get to ride the finals.
Is this all good? Hard to tell. If we change to much the hardcore fan will loose interest maybe. We still don't know if it will attract new fans.
Alternative solution... Bring back twostrokes. Cheaper bikes and less noise makes for more riders. More riders means more money for everyone. Enough money in the mx-industry means we can run things by our own rules. It might not create any multimillionaire riders, but it will bring everything back to how it used to be.
Perfect solution. Everyone rides twostrokes and yet embraces changes that makes mx more attractive for marketing money. More active riders and still lot's of money from outside the sport.
It's pretty clear from the outside that YS has made an impact worldwide. Some of their ideas are good, and some are for the worse. We have to pick the best from other sports, but not loose the sold of MX.
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