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Those years are in close enough proximity to show U.S.A. has had decent results since their last win in 2011.
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Speed wise gbr have been stronger then USA lately, but bad luck has got them.
Yes USA could beat the rest of the world in the past.
But the world championship has evolved, not just the riders but the tracks are far tougher now.
So when the mxon is on a true world class track, rough & deep as hell, the MXGP guys rise to the top.
In 2019, Anderson beat Watson, and in 2018, Tomac soundly beat Searle. I’m also pretty sure aside from Cooper’s bad race in 2019, he’s a lot faster than Adam Sterry.
Team U.S.A. needs to up their game no doubt, but I’m not going to let people shit on them with the “national” riders bullshit.
So how can, in the US be so stacked now and yet we can't win...
Yet in the old days when we were supposedly so much slower and unstacked we did win....
The issue currently (2017-now) is we aren’t sending our best riders, and when we do (2018) they are off the pace. Are the euros just better right now? Probably.
US riders have a 12-round outdoor series to get up to speed. The US teams have access to every bit of setup info from the GP teams, should they want to actually set their bikes up to work properly on an MXdN track.
The MXdN comes directly after the outdoors. It’s not like it’s in the middle of Supercross and requires switching around. It’s one extra race. And in terms of ‘being tired from a long season’, GP riders spend more time racing than AMA riders do if you consider that Supercross amounts to a five minute heat and a 15 minute final each weekend. Is it really true that you can’t win in September because your first race in January was 21 days earlier than the European guys?
Ricky Carmichael has 7 MX and 5 SX titles, and 76 MX wins versus 48 SX wins (even though there are more SX races per season). That doesn’t portray MX as the secondary priority for the man you call the greatest rider of all time.
The AMA has an outdoor series that, according to what I’ve seen here, pays a million bucks OEM win bonus. That doesn’t sound like something the riders would have no interest in.
Blaming Supercross is a modern-day crutch to deflect from the reality that GP riders simply caught up. And continuing to hide behind that excuse isn’t the way to change the situation.
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To be honest, ‘94 was a one-off. None of the three riders were at the top of their game that year and none were expected to do what they did. They all just had their best day, all at the same time. For that they deserve immense credit. But I for one did not see that result as an indication that GB was suddenly the fastest nation in the world.
The USA is a huge country with a huge market, so big it can keep their most elite riders from competing globally.
But it’s this that is letting them down when it come to MXON, as this is the only time of the year they are truly competing globally.
"The US teams have access to every bit of setup info from the GP teams, should they want to actually set their bikes up to work properly on an MXdN track."
"Supercross amounts to a five minute heat and a 15 minute final each weekend."
Doesn’t matter how fast they are, that’s a losing mindset.
Will a top twenty guy in the us be a top twenty guy in mxgp? Nah…
If you study maths pretty damn hard for 10 years you’ll be better in math than chemistry (didnt think of any other classes :laugh . Same goes for mx vs sx. Do one thing and the other one suffers..
But any kind of major change wont happen if the US industry is stuck in the mindset that nothing can be done because SX is the priority.
Nobody that uses this excuse/explanation has ever shown me hard facts that would suggest 2021 is different to 2001 or 2011. The schedule is still the same, nothing has changed except SX futures amateur racing being introduced two years ago so that has had zero effect on anything yet.
I'll come back to my first point. USA has the biggest population, the deepest talent pool so if the US moto industry collectively decides to re-evaluate the situation and investigate what could be done better, the results would come eventually.
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