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In the US you have 12 fast guys in 450, on good teams, a load of guys MIA on SX only / Canada stuff , and the rest are privateers doing it on gas card .. loads of space but no bikes with enough support
Then in 250, you have the SX teams who run east and west running 4 riders,(4 at PC , 4 at Star, 4 at Geico and 4 at TLD ) plus Osborne and a few odd balls, which is 20 ish .. its all fucked up.
If they ran a proper 250 SX series, instead of regionals, those teams could run 2 250's , and 2 450's and suddenly there are a load ,more rides to go round, plus you get to feed into your 450 team, you are investing in your own future, not just fattening someone up for the factories to pick off.
Both systems are flawed, but MXGP has strength in depth , MX2 does too, EMX feeds the young guys in , and the few 'late developers' in MX2 are the ones who are having difficulty . There are rides in 450, but you wont leap into a factory team unless you are very lucky.
AMA need to bump guys up, and create the rides by altering SX, imagine the 450 class with every guy who did 4 years in 250 in it.. on the same team they are on now, that would be properly competitive
Osborne wanted to come back, Ferrandis was the only guy in the same time zone as Herlings (big loss for the GPs) but it was his dream to come to America, Tonus couldnt cut it in the 250s here but has beaten much of the stacked MX1 field.
Ferrandis is French , and they have a good SX series, their guys want to come to the US , and he had 2 injury filled years and didn't reach potential on the 250 , and wasn't on for a 450 ride as the team he rode for didn't run 450 any more.
The Shop
Moving to the US isn't as big of a thing for European riders as it was 5-10 years ago.
As for Ferrandis, that is a loss for GP's, great rider from an important market.
I think Lawrence would be daft to jump off Factory Suzuki here to go to the US , especially if he doesn't have SX skills.
Pit Row
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