Hmm, I can see I have a bit more splainin to do.
Factories are not usually on my list of stake holders I have any sympathy for, but when you think about the rider's contracts being paid while they have no rider, and the team expenses and bike costs that go on even without your top rider, you have to imagine they would be all over the idea.
Riders, the most important stakeholders get a shot to recover from injuries rather than realizing their season is shot and just waiting for the outdoors. When you realize how few entries there are to fill the gate, they need every rider they can get. Riders that miss the start of the series may be able to join later, whether injured or struggling to get a team together. Right now there is ET3, MM25, MS27, JH72, JS7
, RD5
, JB19, DM18, TB69, NS79, AC80, MB58, HM48, AP 981 and more that would benefit from this rule so far and we are on the 2nd race.
Fans would benefit from having riders return to the series rather than lay up and prep for outdoors. The top riders will still have the best scores, but at the end of the season you would still have more riders with at shot at the title.
It beats the heck out of a playoff or shoot out as a way to tighten the series.