MXGP - breakaway series theory

You can pour money anywhere you want but if FIM & FIM-Europe decides to shaft you with their calender. They will shaft you looong and hard.

You wouldn't be able to call it Europe or World championship unless you make your own federation and you would need the national federation to switch teams from FIM to you, which is almost impossible, just imagine the level of corruption there is now and you would need to trump it with your ammount heading to their offshore accounts... In the end it would develop the same situation as in boxing...

But i just beg you if you won euromilions and manage not to spend it all immediately on blow and hookers, please, pretty please. Renew racing in Namur. Pretty please. Thank you.

You just need deeper pockets then the others

Ask those that run the current WESS championship what happens when you run successful series that the FIM wants more control of.

They already tried it. Like 8 years ago, the Red Bull series was started, with almost all the rounds in the UK. Some started dreaming about an alternate series, and how after some years the GP-circus would get abandoned by the top tier riders, which ofcourse never happened. The series died out.

I remember this too. Didn’t they actually have some races elsewhere in Europe? But as you said, it looked promising but died out.

Are you trying to say the teams, riders and tracks don’t make money?

One problem is where the money comes from. So you start something with good payouts and sure that makes the rider want to hit your series, but the big bullies in town will keep the rider's team from allowing it. The very top guys make big bucks, so your £10m isn't going far with them, so forget about the top 1-5 right off the bat. It'd be a huge undertaking, but you'd want to start talking to other businesses that aren't sponsoring the main series and other big shops and get them prepped to start a new team, figure a half dozen. They'd need to be spring-loaded in case you were able to work something out. Then you'd want to hit the 6-20 group of riders really hard and your timing would have to be such that their contract were up and you'd have to bribe them with a guaranteed amount to not sign with anyone that wasn't contractually willing to join your series. You'd have some gnarly bribing conversations with a looooooot of people, but I think with that money, a really smart team of 6-12 people and a shit ton of luck and effort, you could successfully start a new series.

pretty sure the manufacturers have a say.

To a point. You can always take the SmartTop route if they're being douches.

Just no... its like saying ' we are going to start a new government'... it cant and wont happen