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Good done Youthstream and there monkeys.
@P the chance is a lot bigger that EU Factory Guys gonna search a team in US.
In US they doesn't travel if it isn't necessarily. You can make good green bills...
The Nationals are the top teir race series.
There are what, 20 something regular GP riders at the USGP and a few locals (including some very slow ones). Even the CCM factory team couldn't afford to come. Who really thinks that the GP teams can afford to go race all over the world when they struggle to fit in one USGP?
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CCM are a a bit different as they are probably the only big team with no sister team, if you like, in America. Therefore they can't borrow a race truck to pit out of, or spares etc. Whats more, one of their riders has missed a few races through illness and things dont appear to be going particularly well for the team at the moment.
The teams should be able to work out the travel logistics next year, aslong as they are clear about where they'll be racing in advance.
Yup. Easy.
I dont understand why Americans feel such a hatred and distain for the GP's. You guys are always telling us that we create the 'us against them' mentality, yet we embrace the Nationals and take pleasure from watching Motocross, wherever it is, whoever is racing, and in whatever the circumstances. At the end of the day, once that gate drops its simply 30-40 riders racing to the chequered flag.
They stopped paying compensations and increased the number of GP's -and, in this plan, of overseas races- so basically the teams are forced to follow whatever plan Y/S and the FIM have for them (since they agreed to stop their association and have no direct weight whatsoever on the decisions made).
And in the current economic situation, it looks like a real challenge ahead of them.
Today's race has no US television broadcast and the attendance is very low, which means no $$$ from sponsors.
Because the American media and subsequently most of the fans dismiss the GP series as second rate. If most of the crap thats posted on here is representative of how most American MX fans feel about the World Championship then it shouldn't be a surprise that attendencs is low.
I have not seen Racer X, Dirt Rider or TWMX write negative articles about the GP's or refer to them as a 2nd rate series. The only negative media about the GP's has always been from MXA. And now that Jody is part of the USGP, MXA has done a 180.
I´ll give you a quick answer: for the very same reason why Mike Alessi upon answering if he could "take us through" moto 1 said: Jaegermeister KTM, Dunlop, Airoh helmets, Red Bull, Alpinestars etc, etc
MONEY!
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I´ll give you a quick answer: Larger single offroad/MX market for manufacturers to exploit, hence more money to spend in the AMA series.
It´s not the best example in the world, but it proves the point at least
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