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Seriously though I don't know about other countries but here it mostly comes down to lack of interest, it's seen as a different sport altogether and doesnt have the numbers interested to facilitate a series on the scale of the GPs
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Nobody will pay Luongo $450,000 for a sx race
Nobody has an air conditioned building
Nobody has a Factory ECU
In the French SM series you basically have to buy a ride on a team to get in, rather than just enter like we do to ride in Germany and Belgium.
This means French teams hire french riders , and french people go to watch them race , with french sponsors picking up the tab... you can do it, but unless you are on a french team it is made 'un-easy', same as entry to Le Touquet etc.
The upside of that is a great domestic series, whereas ours is full of French riders taking rides on english teams, putting our guys out of a ride... hence why i dont go to watch French and 3rd string US guys ..
The French, like the Italians will do anything they can to make sure their National Champ is a home rider, pretty sure the Italian Champion is the top scoring home rider, no matter how far back that is.
It's odd to me in a way. Traditional American stick-and-ball sports are the absolute best, and soccer will never, ever rival the MLB/NFL/NBA holy trinity of team sports. But racing, curiously, is the other way around. NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA, MotoAmerica (as it's now known), Supercross, drag racing ... they're are all shit pandering to a low-end audience. All American racing is shit, and Supercross is bottom of the barrel.
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Does Luigi have a monopoly over all Moto in Europe, to have a race would you really have to involve him?
Does no one have a factory ECU and purple powerband for an air conditioner laying around?
Ruy, there have been several Spanish riders (Juan Cros comes to mind) + Italians, Germans, Brits etc doing just that, for years.
Some of them have won races or made podiums (Deli Esposti, Pellegrini, Hsu, etc).
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