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Then have someone tell Luongo to shorten his calendar with a week or two, shouldn't be too hard to make happen.
And oh my word look, then the two series would wrap up at the same time! We could have the MXoN the week after the conclusion of both series! Yayyy!
Nationals need to be flexible.
Least stop the yanks from saying the break is to long from mx season to mxon
The point is that if this MXoN schedule problem is going to be solved, both sides need to make small adjustments. I'm sure FIM wants the best possible US team at MXoN, and to make it happen they need to squeeze the GP calendar with a week or two so that the event can be held a bit earlier. On the other hand the AMA needs to add one or two weekends off (between SX and MX or in the middle of the MX season I don't care, just make it happen) to make their season end a bit later, and that way closer to the event and eliminate the excuse of there being a too long break inbetween. It's unreasonable to say that only one or the other of the two series has to make an adjustment of a pretty much a month to their schedule.
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MEC affect about 30 riders and about 10 teams per year.
US outdoors affect about 60 fulltime riders and probably 25 fulltime teams.
Having more time at the end of the season is better for more people.
75% of the gp schedule is in Europe which is easy to get around these days. If guys are racing national series on their off weekend, wtf is the point of an off weekend?
It's a nothing race that does nothing for the riders other than help them puff their chests out.
You can talk about pride and riding for your country all you want. But that doesn't pay the bills. Supercross and Outdoor titles do.
Eli is doing what is going to pay him and keep him and his family set after racing. I don't blame him.
They have created their own problems with their own schedule changes and especially the bizarre timing of MEC and yet try to blame YS, when the facts show the date has been at the middle or end of September for nearly 20 years!
It also highlights the embarrassing bias and insular nature of certain sections of the US media. To not even know MXGP, the world championship of the sport they are supposed to love, didn't end until the middle of Sept for motocross media is ridiculous.
America aren't bigger than the world. Changing the date just to suit one country is ludicrous.
The bigger and more fundamental issue here is just how much supercross overshadows motocross in the USA. That is core of the problem.
Nobody is blaming anybody the US schedule the way it is for TV...the MEC is run by Feld...they don't give a shit about MX...but you already knew that but it doesn't fit your US vs GP agenda.
It's simple, if you want to have the best American based riders in the MXDN then the date is going to have to change otherwise you will see more of the same or none at all....then what are you and MXDouche going write about??
Again, both sides need to meet eachother halfway to get the MXoN to work for both sides. But if the AMA isn't ready to change anything on their side like you're saying, then screw them and stop complaining that riders decline the MXoN. The rest of the world can't and won't change just because of one national series won't.
I can't understand why it's so hard to understand that YS won't change a worldwide 19 race world championship series for just one country's 12 race national series. All this uproar basically just because a badly timed MEC.
Just push the entire national series back 3 weeks and everything is solved. Having MX start the week after the SX finale is just idiotic in the first place
SECONDLY.. Fans dont get to see the riders they support unless they visit a GP.. so riders lose support .. people dont go to the races, clubs have nothing to promote, and the sport dies a slow and lingering death.
THIRDLY... Manufacturers need importers to support the sport , so each country will have a team it supports in domestic championships , to promote its sales.
You just dont understand.
I came up with this idea just looking at this years calendar. Let's say MXoN would be held two weeks earlier on the 17th of September. That would mean that AMA could end their season like they do now on August 26th and have two weeks off before MXoN or add another weekend off somewhere along the season and end it a week later and have one week off before coming to Europe. Seems reasonable to me. On the other hand FIM and Luongo would need to tighten up their calendar with a week or two depending on if the GP riders want to have a weekend off or not before MXoN. Again something that sounds reasonable atleast in my mind.
"The USA MXON of nations team is like a box of chocolaaates. Never know what you gonna get."
Essentially you are saying there are events outside the normal schedule that are important to sponsors so they are given preferential treatment. Similar to the MEC.
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