MXA aime toujours autant quand Infront touche aux traditions…
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TRADITION BE DAMNED: MOTOCROSS DES NATIONS TO BECOME THE MOTOCROSS DES FREE-FOR-ALL
The Motocross des Nations is under attack, by the men who are suppose to protect it. There is talk, among the rear guard of Grand Prix executive (which means the Italians), to throw away the 73 years of the tradition of the MXDN being a nation versus nation showdown — and open it up to all the GP riders—which would lessen the importance of and demean the stature of the World Team Motocross Championship. It would become nothing but another GP in a schedule that already has 5 too many Grands Prix to begin with (and you know the 5 GPs without us telling you who they are, where they are and why the promoters want to go to those non-moto countries).
The idea is to turn the Motocross des Nations into a points paying GPopen to every GP rider (please don’t called it the Motocross “of” Nations—that was just a marketing ploy to sell sponsorship packages to corporation that knew nothing and cared nothing about motocross history). By allowing everybody to race at the Motocross des Nations the riders who weren’t named to their nation’s teams will be placed in the mix as “wild card “riders (mucking up the mix is more like it). If In Front Racing makes this change, the MXDN will lose its reason for being.
Why do they want to make this change? Because the way the current MXGP schedule is laid out, the previously last race of the year, the Motocross des Nations, is now in the middle of the MXGP season—with 11 GPs scheduled after the MXDN. Frontstream is worried that most of the Grand Prix contenders will refuse to race for their national teams with so many GPs left on the schedule (where injury at the mid-season MXDN could harm their chances of being number one).
They have already lost Team USA, at least the upper crust of the potential Team USA, to the late starting AMA National series and now they are worried that the European stars will bow out too. And since In Front Racing refuses to budge off the September 27th date—they would rather kill the event uniqueness than think about re-arranging the schedule—which starts with getting rid of the 5 meaningless GPs.
If they took all of the To be annouced dates and the fove races that no ne wants to go to, the MXDN could be the last race of the season.
, le il y a 5 années et 11 mois.
