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"The best riders in the world are here in the States & if I'm the world champ I have to beat them"- Jean Michel Bayle, 1990.
It used to be true. Fair play. Riders would win a world championship or two then have their sights set firmly on a move to the USA to race with the best.
As we've seen in recent years, that is no longer the case. It is reported that Herlings gets paid the same money as Dungey did by KTM, so If KTM are paying that, surely HRC and the rest are paying nearly the same for big stars?
My question is, what is the 'draw' to ride in the US now? Have Roczen, Musquin, Lawrence made the right decision in moving over? They're big stars who could command huge money here in Europe. So why move?
It used to be true. Fair play. Riders would win a world championship or two then have their sights set firmly on a move to the USA to race with the best.
As we've seen in recent years, that is no longer the case. It is reported that Herlings gets paid the same money as Dungey did by KTM, so If KTM are paying that, surely HRC and the rest are paying nearly the same for big stars?
My question is, what is the 'draw' to ride in the US now? Have Roczen, Musquin, Lawrence made the right decision in moving over? They're big stars who could command huge money here in Europe. So why move?
Like it or not, Supercross is now the main stage for dirt bike racing.
I believe after this weekend it was pretty obvious that outdoor racing is now an "European" thing.
From what I read here, superiors in America isn't hugely popular with the 'real' hardcore MX fans.. "Death-cross", "circus" are just a couple of names I read here.
What good is it having three times the IG followers if 'death-cross' is going to threaten the length of your career??
Interestingly, it'd be good to look in to how well Musquin is doing since moving stateside- he was factory KTM in Europe, moved to Factory KTM in US, lets assume he could be on Herling's type salary back in Europe.. Is he better off??
In the past, Euros have set a trend in going across the pond to race the best- will we ever see Americans doing the opposite?
The Shop
As far as longevity, Cairoli is a bit of an anomaly with his career. Lots of the other older GP guys are actually getting pushed out of the series.
This sport requires massive sacrifice, and is very short. Make the cash while you are healthy.
The "deathcross" and "supercross sucks" stuff you hear on here are a select few chodes that just like to bitch. If the pro nationals here in America were "so much better" for the fans than supercross then they wouldn't be pumping so much money into and putting so much emphasis on SX, plain and simple. Supercross is a better "show", the racing is more intense (contact wise) and crashes are more extreme and frequent which makes it appeal more to your average person. Sad but true. I can get my wife to sit down and watch a Supercross race with me. Motocross? She could care less.
Motocross is like boxing and Supercross is like the UFC and what we seen this weekend was a dirt bike version of McGregor vs. Mayweather.
Also - when pourcel got his US citizenship recently - his instagram post said it was one of his best days of his life - and it was good to finally live in a country he feels safe. Not sure how much of a role that could possibly play for any of these guys - as it seems all the GP stars are just fine...
But who knows - clearly the GP structure is developing better outdoor riders
who knows, the 6-12 years olds might just be thinking they need to go win the MX1 title to be the best on the planet, it was like that in the 70's and early 80's, the GP title in europe was considered the best place to go to race the best in the world, by the late 80's, it was the USA,
Pit Row
U.S. MX/SX
No traveling around the world to race at third world fairgrounds tracks
The guy who mentioned 3rd world countries on fairgrounds tracks is accurate too. They have some great tracks and some pretty horrible ones too.
If you don’t enjoy seeing guys like Stew, RC, Reed, Windham, Rv, Dungey, Roczen, Tomac, Musquin put together timing and rhythms that fast and at that speed then how can you call yourself a “true”’ moto fan. Get out of here with that shit. I respect the hell out of MXGP guys, Heirlings and Cairoli are unreal, but respect the game on both ends and quit being a biased pompous ass.
If you don’t enjoy seeing guys like Stew, RC, Reed, Windham, Rv, Dungey, Roczen, Tomac, Musquin put together timing and rhythms that fast and at that speed then how can you call yourself a “true”’ moto fan. Get out of here with that shit. I respect the hell out of MXGP guys, Heirlings and Cairoli are unreal, but respect the game on both ends and quit being a biased pompous ass. And that’s for all you euro haters, if you think sx is a clown show ask one of your euro gods to hit a Stew quad.
the level of discourse drops with every post from this idiot...
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