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As for Husky’s MX2 effort, I was pretty sure that IceOne was gonna take over both factory teams, but I guess things can change. Wonder what Haarup’s situation is like? He seems to be forgotten in all these team talks.
Obviously the main sponsor and factory support is still needed for a top effort, but i would be surprised to not see Martens continue even if he doesnt have factory support or a main sponsor. Imo we would simply see a smaller effort with 2 talents who bring some money to the team.
For JM is the problem that most of the little sponsors got dumped, because they were not part of the Husqvarna one family sponsors. I hope all of them are willing to return.
About Suzuki, they signed a exclusive contract with Stefan Everts for 5 years, so till 2021. It's a air tight contract, till 2021 only GPR (Everts team bought from Geboers) can run MX2 and MXGP Factory Suzuki teams.
Kind of surprising to me that KTM takes that gamble but he could pay off in his second or third year.
I think a guy like DV could help him a lot. If I remember right he was already training with DV a couple of years ago.
Musquin had a pretty similar early career (also on Bud Kawa). Barely top 5 in EMX in 2007. Then barely top 15 in MX2 in 2008 (but he was almost 20 already). And then he suddenly won the MX2 title in 2009.
One thing is for sure: this kid can ride Supercross.
Fastest Qualifier at MEC last year (ahead of Derek Drake among others).
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As far as i am concern they can devour enormous meat shaft for their behavior towards Everts, Seewer, Jasikonis, Lawrence brothers and rest the people around.
Hopefully Jacky can find some good backing and a new brand, would be a big bummer and a big loss for the GP World if Rinaldi and Martens will be out after the 2019 season... Ouch.. 4 rides gone, would be really sad.
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Martens will probably still have quite a few smaller sponsors but I'm 100% sure this is hurting him/the team big time.
I agree that this is hurting him big time.
My point was more that if he needs to bridge a year (waiting for the Suzuki deal in 2021?) he can do a year in a LRT or Diga setup (small van and 1 rider). If he still has 20+ of those small sponsors that should get him a good chunck of the required budget for that.
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When they got dumb they deserve to bleed money inside and outside of the corner.
And I guess they better stay quiet too, those Japanese guys. Because they told the GPR (Everts) team in April, after the yearly meeting where they decided funding for both MXGP and MX2 were going to end, that they would sacrifice the Japanese MX Team and the MX2 team so the MXGP team with his two riders Seewer (Rookie) and Jasikonis could race their new bikes for the second year.
Also Sylvain Geboers isn't a saint in all of this. He saw that a lot of his former staff got the boot, because Stefan wanted to create a new boost. SG didn't took that well and didn't always had the best interests in mind when he communicated about the generation (Everts) towards Suzuki. Also: big changes on short time is something Japanese companies will never do and will never understand.
I don't get that people are so negative about Everts. To get the record straight, he got a contract from Yamaha to become the right hand from Rinaldi and to take over the team on mid long term. But he was very interested by the KTM program where he could develop their rear-suspension system and the 350cc. All that combined with the fact that he really loved to work with young talent made him choose for KTM. He worked with Jonass, Prado, Natzke, Mewse, ... But from the moment KTM signed Ken Roczen because SE72 didn't wanted to put all pressure on Herlings shoulders the relationship between Jeffrey Herlings and Stefan Everts went south. Combined with the fact that Herlings got protected by Pit Beier it became a ugly cockfight.
SE: "Don't ride with that broken shoulder blade in Lierop, you are already world champion, ..." But Pit protects him, gives him carte blanch. Herlings races and makes the injury worse and misses the MXON and the after season tests.
SE: Take a riding break from 4 weeks, I don't want you to be burned out.
JH Thinks: Fuck You and he buys him two 350cc bikes and rides private tracks.
SE: Angry - PB: Shuffle all of it under the carpet.
And there are more stories like that, then because it was unworkable, they created a Junior team with Prado, Natzke, Mewse and Jonass trained along with them. Not gonna tell ya he's a saint, but there is often more to a story then what we see, hear, ...
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