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Let's say 20k per rider, 2 classes and only the top 15, that makes 30 riders or 600.000 euros. that's a lot of money.
Are they really making that much money on a GP in Indonesia?
It doesnt matter how good it is, the fact that a world Championship event can only muster 25 riders over 2 classes says it all.
Argentina is a great GP, Australia and NZ would be great additions, as would a return to South Africa and the USA.
I dont even have a problem with Russia
I guess we will find out over the next few days what the reality was from those not having to tow the company line.
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"Gajser also didn’t finish on the podium for 3 GPs straight this year."
You do realize that Gajser almost didn't ride Saridinia due to sickness, which also reflected to its next gp as well (and not even appearing on the podium for red plate). Not sure why would you bring that to conversation...
All in all, things will be different when all top 3 MXGP riders are back to racing together in 2023.
The core of the issue is that Infront believes that the tv exposure & atrendance figures of the championship as a whole is a great platform for teams to find money for theur team. Luongo jr. literally just said this 2 weeks ago in an interview.
The reality is quite different: Just a few weeks ago we had 21 and 22 guys ride in time practice of mx2 and mxgp in an Italian (!) GP. Because the money to pay for it all simply isnt in reach based on the "platform" infront offers.
That was a crazy downhill triple, they were clearing, immediately into a right hand turn at the bottom.
There is only one reason teams didn’t go to Indonesia. They couldn’t afford it.
If they can’t generate enough money from the platform created by the promoter then that doesn’t suggest that Infront’s strategy is working.
Indonesia then Australia, and finally New Zealand?
How hard could it be?
MX2 race 1
2.01.523 = Tom Vialle
2.02.181 = Simon Laengenfelder
2.02.259 = Jago Geerts
2.02.810 = Kevin Horgmo
2.02.894 = Thibault Benistant
2.03.322 = Kay De Wolf
2.03.736 = Mikkel Haarup
2.04.068 = Andrea Adamo
2.04.379 = Stephen Rubini
2.05.927 = Kay Karssemakers
MXGP race 1
1.59.345 = Tim Gajser
1.59.929 = Jorge Prado Garcia
1.59.941 = Ruben Fernandez
2.00.600 = Glenn Coldenhoff
2.00.656 = Mitchell Evans
2.00.945 = Jed Beaton
2.01.118 = Romain Febvre
2.01.869 = Jeremy Seewer
2.01.881 = Calvin Vlaanderen
2.02.019 = Pauls Jonass
MX2 race 2
2.03.046 = Simon Laengenfelder
2.03.345 = Tom Vialle
2.04.415 = Jago Geerts
2.04.547 = Thibault Benistant
2.04.784 = Andrea Adamo
2.06.418 = Mikkel Haarup
2.06.772 = Kay Karssemakers
2.08.410 = Kevin Horgmo
2.11.832 = Stephen Rubini
2.14.407 = Delvintor Alfarizi
MXGP race 2
2.00.234 = Tim Gajser
2.00.772 = Mitchell Evans
2.01.017 = Jorge Prado Garcia
2.01.788 = Romain Febvre
2.01.839 = Pauls Jonass
2.02.194 = Jeremy Seewer
2.02.314 = Ruben Fernandez
2.02.667 = Mattia Guadagnini
2.02.694 = Glenn Coldenhoff
2.03.821 = Calvin Vlaanderen
Pit Row
Clearly the only reason we go to markets like Indonesia is it’s part of the deal to gain factory support from Honda etc
How do we increase funding for the smaller teams ?
Almost 100 hours of travel and 10 flights for some guys, to hope you dont get sick and end up on a drip, for 2 races on track that was hard to pass on, and wasnt much fun to race
And the place was a mess.
Still , the locals were freindly, so its all good.
That's a fast track, I think FIM says that the mean speed must not exceed 50 km/h.
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