August 8, 2014. Interview de Michael Pichon par Motocross Action.
https://motocrossactionmag.com/news/the-mxa-interview-mikael-pichon
MXA : WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE CURRENT STATE OF THE GP SERIES?
MP : I have bad thoughts about the GP series. I don’t like it so much. There are good things in the GP series, but now many riders have to pay and they don’t get any purse money. After the top seven or eight riders, the rest of the racers have to pay in order to get on a team. Plus, Youthstream takes in lots of money from the sponsors and organizers, but they don’t give any of the money back to the racers.
MXA : AS A FORMER WORLD CHAMPION, IT MUST HURT YOU TO SEE THE GREED.
MP : I’ve always been on the side of the racers. What I like about racing in the U.S. is that the riders are given prize money. In Europe, only a few guys really make any money. That’s sad. I also don’t like how the races are held all over the world just so Youthstream can make more money. The travel is too expensive for teams. Youthstream should give back to the riders, not take.
MXA : UNDER THE CURRENT GP SYSTEM, WOULD YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED?
MP : Had things been the way they are now when I started racing, I probably wouldn’t have had a motocross career. My parents didn’t have any money, so there is no way that they could have paid 50,000 Euros for me to get on a team. Only a really talented rider, such as Ken Roczen, would make it, because he’s so good that he wouldn’t have to pay a team.
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