Jase and Kay de Wolf Talk MXGP: Should MXGP Pay Contingency?

[@simonsteadman3276]

Well done for speaking up and calling them out, I’ve been saying exactly this for years.The greed is killing MXGP and they wonder why the riders are sprinting to the US.🤦

[@johnallard9876]

Mxgp makes enough money yo pay riders. That’s so insane they don’t make any money or get prize money. They’re risking everything ever time they get on a bike. I thought they least made a lil bit compared to us guys. They all should leave mxgp and come to us! They still should get paid better in us for what they risk but nothing really

[@gekcee3266]

MXGP is toast. The top guys are already coming to the US. The rest will be the local guys and nobody is coming to watch that. Its on its way out. 2 maybe 3 years and goodbye

[@dn5435]

I am going to watch that. MXGP has grown massively in the last years. Only a fool would think they will cancel the series

[@gildo101rossi]

😂😂😂 give over nothing has changed in 30 years, same old same Old, every few years a few guys go to the states that wanted to go before they turned pro. We’ve got plenty of talent coming through the EMX series. America should be worried more it’s how weak their amateur program is & lack of top rate talent coming through in the 250. So many guys 30 years old taking rides away from youngsters

[@bubbagump9662]

💯 but I give it 5 years

[@user-se7vt5ow4e]

You are clueless. I live in Spain and the crowds are huge. Even at the Enduro GP tracks the crowds are huge. A local MX race will draw a large crowd.

[@BioDjango]

LMAO, MXGP Arnhem was packed (i was there)

[@godleman641]

I'm really keen to see what they do with the Australian round next year. Darwin isn't exactly the go-to motorcross place. I feel like there were plenty of better options, and I really hope it succeeds, and a truly rad track is built for it

[@andrewkirk8687]

Plenty of dirtbike lovers in the NT and rural Australia tho. Finke is hosted in Alice Springs after all.

[@jimmydean4444]

This could be good for the American ama sceen. Bringing top talent from the mxgp making for better races and also make the American Boys better in the process.

[@lampenracer]

Finally somebody with a bigger audience gets it: - Teams/riders pay to line up behind the gate - Track owners pay to host a GP - Spectators pay to visit the GP - TV viewers pay to watch the livestream Everybody pays money but infront/youthstream/mxactiongroup (they had many names along the way...) What do we get? - more an more tracks on parking lots - races with nearly no spectators - gates with 15 to 20 riders instead of 40. - more and more teams are stopping. That's not the way to grow the sport I guess.

[@BioDjango]

The guys at MXGP are complete morons (the sport could be huge) but they just want quick money instead of long term growth, kinds sounds like small time criminals 😂💀

[@Carl-s3h]

AMA motocross is way better for viewers and riders

[@fortheloveofmusic192]

Jase, I hope you really stay on this, same thing with the series in the US. I understand this is tricky ground, because you could easily end up in Cooksey town. I'm not looking for anyone to get destroyed, but whatever the TRUTH is, it needs to be presented.

[@matsschonning]

Due to the payment issue. It has not always been like that. That changed when the Italian mafia bought the whole MXGP circuit. It used to be stacked of people wanted to qualify as well, and now there are not even full gates. The price for participating used to be 50€\$ and if you qualified u got your money back, and the better result the better u got payd. Just like in the us. When the mafia bought the circuit riders had to pay 1500€\$ in cash to race. They literally collect the cash in a big IKEA bag 😅Even in the European championship which is supposed to be the “low budget version” you have to pay almost the same amount in cash to race. It has ruined motocross in Europe unfortunately. Now the only riders who can race is those who are fortunate enough to have parents ore others with deep pockets, just like the rest of the Motorsports 😑

[@danarrington2224]

Imagine how many people would pay $10,000 each to play in the world series of poker every year if it didn't pay any money out. 0.0 If you can't win money as a professional racer, you're not technically a professional racer. These guys are essentially really fast billboards.

[@invisiblespeedrc]

They do win money, its just not the promoter paying it

[@rickvisser8296]

create a riders association... F1 has one. MXGP will not listen to one rider. But if the track is bad, not getting paid enough and the whole association are saying: You give us half a track... we race one heat and go on strike for the second... they listen. Like Portugal racing with a thunderstorm... its insane

[@themotocrosslounge8697]

Mxgp can go to indonesia twice and to these other awful tracks in spain and china but cant come to the US once? Crazy

[@shnboardman1]

I am probably way out but Turkey must have paid so much just to get race there, it would have been better somewhere closer to a big town but the costs to build another track isn't cheap

[@bbqgigi5510]

we need an elon to make mx in Europe and USA fair for riders

[@niccoloaliboni7711]

At this pace, MXGP is going to be nothing more than an European championship within 3 years, just the time to let some top riders retire and some of the young mx2 riders go to the US….Mark my word

[@carisi2k11]

If MXGP teams are not getting a chunk of the pie like F1 teams do then they need to stand up for it.

[@andrewkirk8687]

Agreed, teams are creating the product MXGP sell to the broadcasters and category sponsors.

[@zee.___moose941]

That's why I love ama motocross. Jimmy decotis can come out of retirement on a privateer bike and run top 10 all day at southwick.beating half the factory dudes I was there it was so sick. That doesn't happen in mxgps lame series. The summer of masterpool and Harlan out of pickups doesn't happen

[@gildo101rossi]

That’s cause Jimmy D would get smoked in MXGP even when he was full time pro

[@Simon-Simon-Simon]

What's funny all the MOTO GP riders and F1 drivers watch the MX riders 😂

[@petergriffin4629]

Back in the 80s every guy who qualified got 1000 swiss Franks. That's enough for fast people to say let's take the sprinter, not the big truck and have a go. This needs to come back

[@ardisenna_9861]

yes it true i hear when MXGP bike come to indonesia is really expensive arround €50000-€59000, i think is cheaper when the GP race in java island, but maybe the goverment take the all GP to lombok island MXGP and MOTOGP

[@georgelynch6139]

Kay just illustrated the GP rider attitude, the money talk didn’t make his eyes light up, the prestige of the elite status is what matters

[@camerongelston2353]

Quickly losing that “prestige” factor with all the bs around it

[@invisiblespeedrc]

@@camerongelston2353its the World Championship…..

[@camerongelston2353]

@@invisiblespeedrc doesn’t make it the best

[@invisiblespeedrc]

@ usually it does. And in this case I would say it is the best, although it’s a shame not all the best riders take part, and that Americans dont take part.

[@camerongelston2353]

@@invisiblespeedrc It’s name is the only thing it has going for it. It’s funny because that’s also what’s killing it because they waste so much money. It’s was close for about 10 years between MXGP and US but there’s a reason everyone dreams of racing in the states.

[@MX-CO]

I find it a little hard to believe that Jace didn't know that

[@GGumbs264]

This is exactly why I don’t watch the mxgp race or care about the end of race highlights…. I would pay to watch the ama motorcross…

[@GGumbs264]

MXGP Is Done.!! They don’t even have races in UK.

[@MrBumbles2]

no prize money ? so what are you racing for ?? do all riders get -paid the same?? and how does this help privateers??

[@kellysrc3]

They get paid by the team only . So your top 4-5 guys might make a couple mill. But it drops off after that!

[@gildo101rossi]

They get paid by sponsors and if you’re in a factory team you get paid by the manufacturer as well. Like MotoGP does it & that has way more money that motocross

[@mxlarge6915]

More factory teams in MXGP and MX2 than ever in the sports history....Seems the manufacturer don't agree as Yamaha, Kawasaki, KTM, Ducati, Triumph, Honda, Husqvarna, Fantic, and Beta all support the series. Tracks and local promoters lining up to get a GP. Man, how about telling the facts. More television in the sport than ever before. Started the Saturday qualification race, which was said was terrible, and now MotoGP, F1 and many other motorsports do the same thing. Sports in great shape and wish media would just be positive about our great sport and not go for click bate. Between MXGP, MX2, EMX and the womens classes, more riders at a GP than ever before as well. Not one riders struggling to get home from a race because he didn't quality. Back in the day, a lot of riders raced in their parents money.

[@michelcasanova9773]

I cn agree more wth you tht some gps tracks r totally shit when u see 15 riders on gates its a fkg joke on top of it riders dnt mk any money ,I dnt even watch them it sucks big time ths is all Italian mafias lk everythng in th EU its falling apart

[@enearox1687]

Aspetta un attimo, smettetela di mettete sempre in mezzo la mafia italiana, nel caso della mxgp la mafia non c’entra nulla e comunque anche voi americani avete la vostra mafia… ma poi quella messicana è anche più potente e pericolosa di quella italiana, perché nessuno parla mai della mafia messicana? Perché ve la prendete sempre con l’Italia?

[@AndrewYarrington]

Mxgp is not growing , lol

[@gildo101rossi]

More manufacturers than ever before? More rounds than ever before? More interest than ever before. It’s growing, but it can be so much better

[@davidbacon9351]

Why did it need changing from how it was in the ‘80’s and 90’s? Great tracks, great bikes, full gates, big crowds, very little (if any) track prep, great atmosphere… ok a bit of dust sometimes, riders learned to adapt to dodgy bits of track, …don’t remember any real moaning… it’s not MotoGp or F1, stop trying to be!

[@HurricaneJesus69]

That’s the one thing I never understood. Everyone loves to bash Feld and MX Sports BUT at least they pay something! It might not be as much as they should be paying but it is better than what MXGP does!

[@paulelm4645]

Who pays these riders and where does these riders get money from

[@invisiblespeedrc]

Manufacturers, teams, personal sponsors

[@paulelm4645]

@invisiblespeedrc then why does Dewolf say nobody is getting paid to ride