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19,GP's last year , so thats 38 days straight away, British Champs is 8 days, , and i think Belgian,and Dutch are 6 each, plus the 2 pre season internationals in Feb, and the Italian International series (3 rounds) which is in february.
There is usually a race after the MXoN , to wind up our nationals, so from Hawkstone International , in mid Feb, till end of September, early October, there might be 3 off weekends with nothing on.
And there are a few midweek races too, because public holidays are midweek in the Benelux Countries, they sometimes run on Wednesdays or Thursdays.
Apart from Cairoli, all the top guys will do the national series that is home to their team, and maybe one other, where they dont clash.
The only national series that it appears that the bulk of the top 15 MXGP class riders compete in is the Italian series, and it's 3 rounds.
The myth of the "every weekend" Euro racer is easy to perpetuate if no one actually keeps track, but it doesn't appear to be accurate. And no one ever seems to use actual facts when they try to push the narrative.......
Entry list for today from Mill..
Herlings, Febvre, Anstie, Coldenhoff, Paulin,Simpson, Seewer in MX1
Covington, TKO, Vlaanderen, Watson, Pootjes, Van Donnink in MX2.
Last year there was a Belgian Championship on a Monday after the Swiss GP , which was the week after Lommel, which we went to.
Just because you dont know about something, doesnt mean it doesnt happen.
Also a round of the French Elite Champs too, so guys will be there too.
Here's the 2017 results, pick out the top 15 MXGP riders from last year......
https://speedhive.mylaps.com/Sessions/4552792
Belgian Dates for 2018, not all are Full status, but at least 4 are plus a couple of midweek races.
http://www.fmb-bmb.be/fr/documents/calendrier-motocross
You can see Nagl also rode the Belgian races too.
Herlings did the British pre season race at Hawkstone, and the Italian International , and the Dutch, and a couple of the Belgian, and of course he dropped in an AMA round for good measure.
Febvre rides Dutch, French, and Italian, and a Belgian or 2.
These guys are paid to race , and if there is a race, they go. Its always been the case, back in the day , the off-GP internationals and midweek races kept most of the GP in a living .
Pick a rider and follow him on Instagram.. Anstie would be a good one, because you will understand what he writes..
https://goo.gl/images/mmiSzB
most o you yank wouldnt have seen this in tge day but now you is more sofisticated an all you might "get it"
Thanks! It's definitely confirming my suspicions that this "no weekends off" is a tired old myth!
Pit Row
Still a lot of empty weekends!
20 2 day GP's and 7 Nationals.
17 FIM/AMA Supercross Championship races
12 AMA Nationals
1 Monster Energy Cup Supercross race
30 races
Surprised you didnt include straight rhythm.
And then there are only a few guys on that schedule, all the 250 guys are on half duties.
They are both tough schedules, the GP boys are usually racing at 5pm local time, and are rarely out of the track before 7.30, meaning a lot of them arent home till Monday , the last race in Russia was on Tuesday, fly out weds AM , back to Belgium, / Holland/ wherever, race at Mill, and then fly out this friday to Latvia, Some of the teams will do the 24hr ferry to Latvia, and some will fly in, either way you dont get out till monday.
RV said he really struggled with the 2 GP day format, because he was at the track pretty much 3 days , instead of the 1 1/2 for an AMA race, and Kenny said he struggled to get used to all the flying doing SX , so they both have their issues, but the myth that GP guys have it easy is a fallacy... Argentina GP from the UK was 36 hours each way, Indonesia will be 20 ish..
Also RV skipped all of the pre season races because he thought he was ready without them... we know how that ended.
The Mill race will be attended by 4-5 top 15 MXGP class racers, correct? And isn't it something like a 3-5 event series?
I don't think most rational people think that either schedule is a complete cakewalk. You chose to start with the digs, but you made it fairly easy to show that you are parroting myths.
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