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JH is way the best paid rider in the GP circuit, even Cairoli makes barely 1 million out of his KTm contract.
I don't see Tomac coming to the GP's. He makes major money already, and can only risk alot. Remember Carmichael.
BTW, we had higher hopes of RC over here in Europe, but travelling different countries, climates and tracks all over the world in a season ain't simple..
What a fucking joke half of these tracks are.
Race there or somewhere like below, such a hard choice.....
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Assen is 'saved' by being sand. Though, most of us would want it elsewhere.
Imola - cripes I hope it's sand, or decent dirt. As above, most of us would prefer it elsewhere, say, Maggiora. But, I think planned 'burning of bridges' (to have things the way Guiseppe / the Track organizers wanted in the 2016 MXDN) have ruled that out for quite some time, or, forever.
Frauenfeld - not terrible, but, once again, most would want it at one of the great Swiss tracks.
Turkey - new venue. Not that bad. Just on flat ground. Much of the Earth is flat ground. Let's see if it survives.
So, there's your 'pop up' tracks. 4 out of 20.
Indonesia:
It's a massive, Massive market for both bike sales and spectators. Racing sells more than Race bikes. Just as an example, It utterly dwarfs the US Market. You US blokes need to check bike sales in the US. Cripes, with about 13 / 14 times the population of Australia, you only buy about 5 times more bikes than us. We Western markets are losing importance to the manufacturers, every bloody year.
Pankal Penang - been there twice. Saved by being sand - 1st one buggered up by rain, but mainly track builders not being aware of the water table, and not providing adequate drainage. Great spectator turn out, both times - despite what wankers who weren't there BS about.
Semarang - once again, went to it myself. Go back and have a squizz at it - it's an effing Great track. I really hope it remains on the circuit, and is a permanent facility for Indonesian riders. Great Spectator turn out, again.
And, as uninspiring as Imola looks in that picture, and as a few of the above are, they sure as shit are better tracks than any vicious, gloried BMX track that is a SX track. Some will say 'Daytona', but fuck that, it's still a narrow little, vicious track plonked down in front of the stands.
Goodness knows what we'll see with the Hong Kong and China tracks next year - probably uninspiring tracks, but, I hope not. I hope to be able to wangle a combo business / MX trip there. As in, some other bastard pays for it.....
As for Luongo's ( and so many other Sports controllers) 'marketing' model of getting Governments etc to pay for 'things', well, yes, they eventually cotton on to the 'con', if it ( and it inevitably turns out to be) is a financial disaster. We live in a very, very 'connected World' - you'd think that Governments / Major Sponsors would be becoming more and more aware of the BS put forward by some Promoters, and do far more thorough Due Diligence.
But, it seems to be the way things are, in major sporting events promoters / controllers / owners - or, ones that think they can be. Leaving behind burnt bridges, and, ultimately, hurting the sport - but leaving a few, with their pockets / bank accounts rather full.
For european's if you don't get dirty, it's not motocross.
Anyhow, Imola is a bad track because I saw it in twitter. Wouldn't be better to wait for the GP?
Its not about what the MXGP can do for Tomac, rather what Tomac can do for the MXGP? I believe there is a reason why an MXGP rider wanted to race a US national in 2017, and I do not believe it was something that was just a contracted event (I could be wrong). There is also a reason why the worlds top riders want to come to race the US nationals and supercross. Lets talk about the Gaiser rumors of him coming to the states for supercross and nationals some time ago, even Hunter Lawrence leaving the GP series and doing supercross and nationals. The outdoors have some of the worlds top level riders in the series too, not just the top Americans. Why not flip this to why Roczen should go back to race the GP's again?
Just a thought, not throwing it at anyone or saying one series is better or more prestigious than the other.
No surprise that Herlings can start one lap later and still catch most of them.
What are you using Carmichael as a reference for? Just curious?
As far as climate goes, if Tomac went to the GPs it would be the coolest temps he has ever raced outdoors in. He would love the lack of heat and humidity compered to normal MX season for him.
As for traveling the world, I'm pretty sure all of the top riders will have enough money in retirement (in their late 20s to early 30s) to take themselves, their families, and their misplaced values wherever they want, and not have to do it on Luongo's schedule. If you don't think the sport (at the pro level) is about generating more income (be it a SX stadium or dirt dumped on an infield in Italy), you are sorely mistaken.
Your inability to see is because your love of the GPs (it's a WORLD championship!!!) and false-consensus bias blinds you to any rational acceptance as to what the racers choose to do and what many of the other fans value. Eli isn't being held back by some mysterious force; he's kicking ass and banking money in the series HE chooses to race.
Now, if that silly Herlings would just wake up and realize he should join us here in the US.
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Just saying you don't see these things coming from DC for the most part.
Very true. Whenever i read DC or about him, his passion for the sport comes out like fire.
I'm not saying an SX title means more on a one-for-one basis, but I feel like an SX title AND an MXGP title means more than two MXGP titles.
RV figured out how to get to the top in MXGP in what, three rounds? And that wasn't even at his prime. I have no doubt Jeffrey would figure out SX in about half a season as long as he didn't break any collarbones. It's a shame the world will never get to see that. No matter how many MXGP titles a rider has, without SX they don't have the full portfolio. And I'm not bashing MXGP, I would say the same thing about a US based rider who only wanted to race outdoors.
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