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Provisional 2021 MXGP Calendar
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Look at where EMX Open is racing, Orlyonok and Turkey. I just don't understand this. This is supposed to be the "cheap" class to race in and you put two rounds that are almost fly-away. 10 rider gates incoming....
Also they should really take a look at how they structure the calendar for the support classes. It’s okay for the most part, but there are a few blunders that will make a dent in the amount of riders that will do full seasons. It makes it really hard for WMX, 125 and EMX Open classes when they have a few of those stand alone rounds here and another one there. Would be a lot easier to get riders to commit to the series if they would have them race 2 or 3 consecutive weekends a few times a year. And then look at some of the places they are going.
And MXoN could be scrapped right away. It’s never gonna work in the middle of the season. And at Imola of all places.
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Of all the tracks within a radius of 100km, they go with Imola. With another 3 GP's afterwards. No, it seems they haven't learnt anything. Turkey - China - MXoN week after week. That's a huge facepalm.
As for rounds in Un Zud and OZ - we don't have any Mining Magnates (in OZ, at least, our answer to Russian Oligarchs - Un Zud? - I guess Peter Jackson might be sitting on multi, multi Millions) interested in MX, that will pay Giuseppe mega bucks.
Hell, with that proposed venue that was put up for Australia - a Trotting Track in Perth - to be a place for the MXDN / GP, we'd be better off not to have it here. That would be an embarrassment of epic proportions.
Go to Indonesia - yup, a massive market, and MX racing promotes Brands, more so than MX bikes - eg: there's a full line of Yamaha Scooters sold there that carry the 'MX" moniker. I've been to several GPs there, and had a great time. But they should be held in the same time frame as the China (and any other Asian rounds) , with finally, Serious , Not Insulting travel assistance from Luongo / Infront. He wants to think of it being like MotoGP, well, he bloody well should offer the sort of financial help that MotoGP Teams get. But no, he bleeds teams dry, and just lines his pockets.
And no, I have little sympathy for Luongo / Infront for whatever financial 'hit' they've taken this year. He's had decades of milking the sport.
You'd think the bastard would want a GP in England - and not ream Dixon for megabucks, after Dixon has done so many GPs, and the MXDN, with also, Steve being willing, at short notice to do this years MXDN (that, of course didn't happen, due to Covid 19). I hope somehow a Brit GP does end up happening next year.
Italy has many world class motocross tracks with long traditions and still they choose to have MXON in Imola is beyond my understanding. Big part of the unique atmosphere of the event comes from standing on a muddy hillside with fans all over the world blasting their chainsaws doing crazy shit. It just not the same when you are sitting in grandstand far away from the track and need binoculars just to identify the riders...
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