[agluff]

J’aime assez l’idée de rassembler les 2 championnats sur une seule épreuve, les 20 meilleurs de chaque championnat et de chaque catégorie. Dans ces conditions je pense que le public ricain suivrait.

Mais bon, pour l’instant c’est la Luongo family qui est aux commandes du MXGP, pas encore Monster.

[louis De simone]

ganjaman a écrit :

 Ce qui intéresse les ricains, c’est les ricains. 

C’est la stricte réalité ! Luongo n’est pas le pb.

[benji]

ouais je sais pas j’ai le souvenir des GP aux US (en 1999 ou en 2000) il me semblait y avoir du monde dans mes souvenirs, mais y’avait la moitié du plateau MXUS aussi …

Après vous avez sans doute raison concernant l’intérêt des ricains pour les GP, mais j’étais optimiste moi :- )

[kvalo]

louis De simone a écrit :

 

 Luongo n’est pas le pb.

Tu veux dire qu’il redistribue aussi aux teams américains ?

[louis De simone]

kvalo a écrit :

louis De simone a écrit :

 

 Luongo n’est pas le pb.

Tu veux dire qu’il redistribue aussi aux teams américains ?

Alerte peau de banane 😉

[the mx addict]

GP des USA sans doute à Gatorback (Gainesville), et MXoN 2018 à Red Bud, visiblement…

[maroilles]

the mx addict a écrit :

 sans doute  Gatorback , visiblement…

… encore …

[kvalo]

the mx addict a écrit :

GP des USA sans doute à Gatorback (Gainesville), et MXoN 2018 à Red Bud, visiblement…

https://www.facebook.com/racerxonline/videos/10150852034284955/

c’est mort pour les nations promises à Assen

[Gator]

Bon, à partir du moment où on intègre que ses aspirations ne sont pas forcément les mêmes que les notres, je le trouve pas si hors du coup que ça, le David…

https://www.mx2k.com/fr/actualite/mxgp/interview-david-luongo-lindonesie-est-une-etape-importante-pour-le-mxgp.html

[benji]

gator a écrit :

Bon, à partir du moment où on intègre que ses aspirations ne sont pas forcément les mêmes que les notres, je le trouve pas si hors du coup que ça, le David…
https://www.mx2k.com/fr/actualite/mxgp/interview-david-luongo-lindonesie-…

Intéressant de voir ce que ça va donner en tout cas !

[ganjaman]

On peut dire ce qu’on veut des Luongo’s, sont loin d’être cons en tout cas… 

Encore plus intéressant pour les anglophones, l’ITW de Davey Coombs pour parler du deal MXSports/Youthstream dans le dernier PulpMX Show : le coup de fil de Guiseppe, la perspective d’avoir enfin notre Ryder Cup, RDC en casque bleu qui dit à GL d’appeler DC et à DC de décrocher son phone… Du bon. 

[dirt d]

ganjaman a écrit :

On peut dire ce qu’on veut des Luongo’s, sont loin d’être cons en tout cas… 

Encore plus intéressant pour les anglophones, l’ITW de Davey Coombs pour parler du deal MXSports/Youthstream dans le dernier PulpMX Show : le coup de fil de Guiseppe, la perspective d’avoir enfin notre Ryder Cup, RDC en casque bleu qui dit à GL d’appeler DC et à DC de décrocher son phone… Du bon. 

Oui mais je ne l’ai pas entendu évoquer un concept à la « Ryder Cup », ça m’a échappé ou tu extrapoles ??

[ganjaman]

Il me semble qu’il l’a glissé vite fait dans une phrase, sans plus de précisions… Un truc genre « wouldn’t it be cool to have a MX Ryder Cup once a year ? » Faudrait que je réécoutes, j’étais en voiture, j’ai peut-être entendu des voix ;-)))

Quoiqu’il en soit, s’ils arrivent tous à s’entendre, ça reviendra clairement à ça. Le choix de Gainesville est une stratégie assumé : faire la course dans le jardin des RD5/KR94/MM84/BB4 et cie qui s’entrainement tous là-bas pour qu’ils puissent venir sans que ce soit une trop grosse contrainte pour eux. Et ça, il le dit clairement, DC. 

[Gator]

« Of course there was another add-on last Saturday when Tim Cotter, host of the big press conference, introduced MX Sports Pro Racing CEO Carrie Coombs-Russell—my sister—and she announced that MX Sports Pro Racing and Youthstream, organizers of the FIM World Motocross Championship and the FIM Motocross of Nations, have reached an agreement to cooperate and organize a new U.S. Grand Prix every Labor Day Weekend, and also bring the Motocross of Nations back to America “every four or five years,” beginning in 2018. There was also the announcement of the extension of our contract with AMA Pro Racing to continue to organize Lucas Oil Pro Motocross for many years to come, and also a long-term extension of MX Sports’ deal with the AMA to organize the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn’s, an event my mom and dad and Paul Shlegel founded in 1982 (and Cotter’s been present at ever since).

As far as press conferences go, this one was pretty packed with news. Real news. And good news. I only hinted at it last week in Racerhead because it was still a very fluid situation, especially with Youthstream. We have long seen things differently and have not worked together much on anything, not here or in Europe, where they are based. But in the days after last year’s Motocross of Nations at Maggiora, Italy, I received a call from Youthstream’s Giuseppe Luongo, who had been urged call by none other than Roger DeCoster. Giuseppe wanted to have a successful MXGP race in America, where such primary sponsors as Monster Energy, Parts Unlimited, and Fox Racing are based. But he had not been successful for a variety of reasons, ranging from the weather and maybe some market saturation out in California, and start-up costs at last year’s race in Charlotte. He was about to wash his hands with the U.S. market all together, but a GP in America is important to the AMA, to the industry, and also of course to Roger DeCoster, the five-time FIM 500cc World Champion, four-time Trans-AMA Champion, and all-time motocross ambassador. The Man’s suggestion was simple: If Youthstream and MX Sports could work together on this one race, rather than apart, maybe it would finally return the USGP to the glory days of Carlsbad, Unadilla and Mid-Ohio in the seventies and eighties. And it would also help get the MXoN back after a longer-than-expected hiatus (it was last here in 2010).  The elephant in the room was the practically non-existent relationship between Youthstream and MX Sports, which really began with the bidding war for AMA Pro Racing’s motocross rights back in 2007, where we more or less campaigned against one another for the purchase of AMA Pro Motocross, as well as the top riders in the world—we each wanted them in our respective series.  

In the end Daytona Motorsports Group won the bidding war, then reached out to MX Sports Pro Racing to run motocross. But the hard feelings stuck around, fueled by sometimes-prolific online scribes/pundits/agent provocateurs (with equally skullduggery names) like TFS, Matthes, MX Geoff, The Rock, Nerd, McCready, Fresh Top End, Mr. Info and more, not to mention even someone going with the easy-to-spell, easy-to-blame eponymously-initialed “DC.”  But through it all both Lucas Oil Pro Motocross and Monster Energy MXGP churned on, despite the very rough economic times of 2009 to, well, still. Giuseppe and I even met a few times, but we never found ourselves on the same page. At least not until that phone call.

In the months that followed Giuseppe reaching out that olive branch, we settled a lot of old differences and misunderstandings, and also discussed what may or may not be possible. We discovered a common passion and commitment to putting on the best races possible, and a continued commitment to the future of motocross. Neither of us are going anywhere except to the races, so why not go to one together? Someday. Maybe.

When Charlotte Motor Speedway let Youthstream know that they did not want to renew their deal, the USGP was nearly scuttled for 2017. We asked Giuseppe to give us a little time to think it through and come up with a viable option and a possible replacement. We believe we found it in the Southeast, but invited Giuseppe to come see if it might work on the way home from Indonesia and on to Argentina, where this week’s MXGP race takes place, and also to maybe discuss a long-term agreement to cooperate. Giuseppe was in Europe, so he sent his son David—his protégé—and Youthstream CEO Daniele Rizzi and events manager Gustav Valentin in his place. That’s how they ended up at Bike Week in Daytona, and in that press conference with my sister, myself, the AMA’s Rob Dingman, and AMA Pro Racing’s David Atlas.

As much as I would love to break the news here on the location of the 2017 United States Motocross Grand Prix, there are still some details being sorted. Same goes for the 2018 Motocross of Nations. What I can tell you is that if you’re a motocross purist, you’re going to be pleased with both facilities—they are permanent, well-known American motocross tracks. What I can’t tell you is which top U.S.-based riders are going to be there, but we are hoping it’s a sizable contingent, as well as maybe a 125cc “Futures” race for the best U.S. prospects against the rest of the world’s best young talent, and a whole bunch of other possibilities.

We will continue to do things in our own ways, but for this one weekend a year we hope to bring the motocross worlds together, first for a successful U.S. round of the Monster Energy MXGP, the FIM World Motocross Championship, and then every few years the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations. We all have a lot of work to do, but I am already impressed with David, Daniele, and Gustav and everyone we’ve been working with at Youthstream, and I am also glad that Giuseppe picked up the phone and made that call.

Thank you, Mr. DeCoster. »

DC

[frankystyle]

Un texte pour Hamon et Melenchon?  

[Auteur]

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