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The racing wouldn't be interesting. For example the MEC had the best supermini riders from across the US race the event. Now imagine if that was substituted with local riders. It just wouldn't work. There's already local guys attempting to qualify for the SX races in both the 250 & 450 class and they are way off the pace.
125 at the SX races would have to be pro's or the kids that race the schoolboy class at the national level. In order to get all the best schoolboy racers to line up it would have to be for 1 single event. The last round at Vegas is already packed with the East/West race so that round wouldn't work. Best option would be at one of the rounds located in the middle of the US but there wouldn't be anything special about it.
Another option would be to bring them back full time with the East/West format and run them sometime during the day and stream the races live over the internet. It would be tough since during the day there's practice for the 250 & 450 class.
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Of course the top guys that have the skills to ride supercross came from somewhere locally with the difference being they dedicated years to learning how to ride it.
Go take a look at the SX entry list and results from this year, last year or any other year and you'll see there's plenty of local people who attempt for the night show at their local SX race and a lot of them are way off the pace. You hear it all the time such and such rider shouldn't even be out there because they're a hazard not only to themselves but everyone else.
I'm not sure which supercross races you watch because as far as eliminating all the racers with limited SX skills/track time, they already do and the 22 best riders line up each week. The best guys make the night show and the rest go home.
Pretty shitty that US continues to pad the books in favor of the big four.
They are still the sharks of the field.
Take jet skis. The evolution has made larger, easier-to-go-fast-on machines, but something in the marrow says a standup is still the shit.
The 2 stroke reputation is legit. They are mean, fast, and unlike anything that's come since. The problem is in how they've been portrayed, and the newer crop of riders (and press) who like to relegate them to some entry level machine for entry level guys because they're easier to repair.
Yes four strokes are powerful (so are Boeing jet engines) but four stroke advancements have made it easier to exhibit pro level skill without having earned it. They demand not near the technique - the technique which made the sport so cool.
End of story, the 250 2 stroke is the most dangerous (in a cool way) machine, the fighter jet to the advanced four stroke bombers -- bombers which enable riders of good skill to seem like they're at the top of the echelon.
In short, when they are respected for the venomous, terrifyingly fast machines they actually are.
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