GPs Change Direction ... Again
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FUNCHAL (Portugal), – After a recent meeting between Youthstream, FIM, manufacturers and teams, the Motocross and SuperMoto Grand Prix Commission, composed by Youthstream’s President Mr Giuseppe Luongo and CMS/FIM Director Dr Wolfgang Srb, met in Mies, Switzerland, on 23rd November 2012, and in a very positive atmosphere unanimously decided to adopt the following changes to the 2013 Regulations.
Mr Takanao Tsubouchi, MSMA Secretary General, could not attend the meeting, but the FIM received the MSMA position on the topics discussed. Mr Ignacio Verneda, FIM Executive Director Sports, also attended this meeting.
Application 01 January 2013
1. FIM MX1 & MX2 Motocross World Championships Regulations
For overseas FIM MX1 & MX2 World Championship events:
• MX1 & MX2 classes race together
• Maximum 40 riders: 15 MX1 riders + 15 MX2 riders + 10 additional riders regardless their class (MX1 or MX2)
• Classification per class
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MX1 / MX2 Duration per session Maximum number of riders |
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2 x Free Practice |
35 minutes |
40 riders |
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1 x Pre-Qualifying Practice |
30 minutes |
40 riders |
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1 x Qualifying Race |
20 minutes + 2 laps |
40 riders |
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1 x Warm-Up |
20 minutes |
40 riders |
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2 x Races |
35 minutes + 2 laps |
40 riders |
2. FIM MX1, MX2, MX3, Women’s Motocross World Championships, FIM Motocross of Nations & FIM Veteran Motocross World Cup Regulations
• Art. 5.11 Qualifying
In order to qualify for the Qualifying Race, a rider must achieve a time equal to at least 108% of the average time of the top 10 recorded during the Pre-Qualifying Practice.
The above-mentioned modification has been unanimously agreed by all manufacturers, factory teams, FIM and Youthstream. This new system will create outstanding high-quality racing for the fans on site and it will offer a more TV-friendly program. In addition, it will also help to bring the level of competition and show very high, having top 30 International riders and the remaining 10 will be made up of other European riders and local riders.
Besides, for the first two overseas events, Qatar and Thailand, Youthstream will give the following freight support to the teams in order to reduce their costs:
MX1
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing – 2 riders – total 600kg
Rockstar Energy Suzuki World MX1 – 2 riders – total 600kg
Monster Energy Yamaha – 2 riders – total 600 kg
Kawasaki Racing Team – riders – total 600kg
Honda World Motocross Team – 2 riders – total 600kg
LS Honda Racing – 2 riders – total 400 kg
Ricci TM Factory Team – 1 rider – total 200kg
CLS MX1 Monster Energy Pro-Circuit – 1 rider – total 200kg
Honda Gariboldi – 1 rider – total 200kg
MX2
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing – 2 riders – total 400kg
CLS MX1 Monster Energy Pro-Circuit – 2 riders – total 400kg
Monster Energy Yamaha Dixon – 2 riders – total 400 kg
Rockstar Energy Suzuki Europe – 2 riders – total 400kg
Nestan JM Racing KTM – 2 riders – total 400kg
Rockstar Bud Racing Kawasaki – 2 riders – total 200kg
Ricci TM Factory Team – 1 rider – total 100kg
Honda Gariboldi – 1 rider – total 100kg
HM Plant KTM UK – 1 rider – total 100kg
In addition:
The 2012 European 250 Champion will receive 200kg
2nd in the 2012 European 250 Championship will receive 100kg
3rd in the 2012 European 250 Championship will receive 100kg
The 2012 European 125 Champion will receive 100kg
For the other two overseas events, in Brazil and Mexico, the division of the freight support will be based on the last Grand Prix event before the concerned overseas events (the top 10 MX1 with 300kg of freight each and from 11 to 15 MX1 with 200kg each; the top 10 MX2 with 200kg and from 11 to 15 with 100kg).
These decisions are made due to the world's significant change over the last few years, and there was a clear need for the FIM Motocross World Championship to adopt some changes in order to cope with the worldwide development.
Mr Giuseppe Luongo stated: “Some people might see this as a ‘revolution’, but in fact it is the right evolution to bring this FIM Motocross World Championship to become a ‘true’ World Championship: multi-cultural and multi-racial covering the entire world with it’s events. Changes often bring other changes and we see this moment the exact time to make other fundamental changes to adapt Motocross to this new era and affront the new challenges. It is imperative that Motocross becomes more attractive, with more emotions, and outstanding show for our fans of the world. Our programme needs to be understandable for the international viewers and easy to follow for the big TV networks. This is why we would like to propose some necessary and radical changes to the Motocross Grand Prix format.”
Youthstream strongly believes that this new system, which will be adopted in the 2013 overseas events, will be very successful, and if it reaches the established expectations in terms of show, costs, safety and TV coverage, Youthstream is planning to implement a similar format for the European Grand Prix events. However, due to the high number of participants in the European Grand Prix events and to give the middle and support teams the possibility to take part in the World Championship and to show their riders and sponsors, the format should be slightly modified:
Saturday
1. First free practice MX2
2. First free practice MX1
3. Second free practice MX2
4. Second free practice MX1
5. Qualifying race MX2
6. Qualifying race MX1
Sunday
1. Warm-up MX2
2. Warm-up MX1
3. Race 1 MX2 - 12h00
4. Race 1 MX1 - 13h00
5. Super-final MX1 / MX2 - 16h00
6. Podium - 16h50
Each class will have up to 40 riders and the points will be distributed as usual. After the first races of the Grand Prix the top 10 riders per class of the World Championship MX1 and MX2 classifications go directly to the super-final, in addition to these riders, the 10 best results from MX1 Race 1 and the 10 best results from MX2 Race 1 (after taking away the top 10 in the World Championship classifications) will also take part in the ‘super-final’ (making a total of 40 riders). In the super-final riders will score points relative to their championship.
There will be a podium with the top 3 riders of the super-final. In addition an MX2 podium will be held after the overall podium to promote the young.
Thanks to this new format, a part from broadcasting LIVE all the racing program on MX-LIFE.TV and on the strong Motocross orientated TV broadcasters, there will be the possibility to create 1 hour program full of racing at the highest level ever seen. The final product will be easier to understand to everybody, especially the young and new fans, and the big TV broadcasters, who are not particularly specialized in Motocross. This new program offers more support and visibility for the teams and riders who enter the entire FIM Motocross World Championship and for teams with a reduced budget Youthstream help them by not having the pressure to take part in the overseas Grand Prix events and they can concentrate on the European Grand Prix events and European Championship; meanwhile keeping open the possibility for every team with the budget and rider quality to enter the whole Grand Prix series.
The overseas events with this new, more modern format and the HD TV production will give a boost to our sport and it will permit the World Championship to have a much wider TV coverage, it will increase the interest from the fans and automatically the sponsors and it will help the manufacturers promote their motorcycles in all the motorcycle markets around the world.
A part from the changes to the 2013 Regulations, there will be the following important improvements in the 2013 FIM Motocross World Championship:
• The TV production will be done in HD
• A covered waiting zone will be located behind the starting gate and on top of the waiting zone there will be a VIP area and podium incorporated, in this way all the first floor of the pit-lane will be in teams' colors and full disposal for the teams’ guests.
• To give more value to the European Championship and to help the young, YS will offer 200kg of freight for the 1st UEM 250, 100kg of freight to the 2nd and 3rd UEM 250 and for the 1st UEM 125 for the overseas events. In addition teams hosting these riders will not pay the contribution fee.
• For the safety reasons and for a higher level of competition the average times from the top 10 in the pre-qualifying practice will be taken and calculated at 108%, and the riders who are over this time will not be able to take part to the race. In extreme weather conditions the Event Management may decide to not use this rule (this rule will be enforced for all MX1 and MX2 Grand Prix events from 2013 – not for MXON, MX3, Women, Veteran or the European Championship).
Youthstream’s main objective is to develop – together with all the stakeholders – a new, modern and global Motocross, while the spirit of our sport remains unchanged: the greatest and most exciting off-road sport in the world!
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Not bad, not bad. Lets see how those changes will work. Imo, those are some great ideas, specially for overseas races. Nobody wants your fastest racers running in super slow locals@mexico, brazil...etc.
Euro pee on No talent hacks! You could never combine 250 with 450 in America. There are too many fast riders to narrow it to only 40 riders get to race. There is a good 50 to 60 riders in each class at every national!
Good move by the FIM that should be followed by the AMA. Two classes in the AMA outdoors is a waste. Talent in the 450 class is very shallow, and the top 250 guys are turning faster lap times than 35+ of the 450 riders.
RIP Larry Hagman
I enjoyed seeing Juan Paco Ortiz getting lapped 4 times, how else are they gonna get better? This is actually quite an outrage.
Stupid. I will not be watching FIM MX this year.
FIM World Championship is a joke anyway. No purse money, no top american riders. To many rules on the tracks.. jumps cant be to big etc. I will stick with AMA
and don't forget MARIANA Balbi make somme points for her first MX1 GP; "World Championship"? even the pro-gp didn't believe, that's why gp champs Roczen and Musquin are only 4th and 5th (5 & 6 if Wilson was there) into the US 250 National (AMA MX World Championship?) and stop keep repeating about that lommel beach race for beach racers, we are in 2012 not in 1962!
I can't avoid thinking that after 10 minutes of racing riders in the 250 and 450 categories of the AMA championship started to be lapped as well, so what are we talking about?
And here is another loser who thinks that sand races should not be raced on, big loser. Real people, like Barcia, Bagget and Dungey, accept the defeat, losers like you keep blaming the track on and on, that's how a piece of crap of the society acts.
I just hope whoever makes decisions for US Motocross doesn't look at these changes and think, "Hmmm, maybe we should try that."
I like the other way better.Run the first motos seperate then combine the top riders for the second motos.This will help an additional 40 riders to gain at least one moto of experiance each week.I think these changes are interesting.We all ways compare the lap times after races and wonder what if. Now we won't have to wonder because we will know for sure.For some reason I think that they dropped the age thing in the 250 class as well.I always thought that was stupid.If a rider wants to make a carreer in the 250s then so be it.
@ Rene.I pretty sure Roczen got quite a few 2nd and 3rd.Pluse led quite a few motos till the last lap or two.Plus remember that this is the first time that they have raced these tracks.They also haven't adapted to the heat and humidity yet.Those boys will be much better next year.
@ Rene.Who cares about Balbi.The only reason she got points is because there was less than 20 riders in each class.Hell 129 year old Roger DeCoster could of scored points.I don't think any of the GP riders were impressed since they lapped her like four times.I'm not sure that you know whats going on is the races that you watch.
Take note American motocross, The talent in the sport is too narrow and the money is too thin for 2 professional classes! The top 250 guys should have been on the track with the top 450 guys this summer. The only way to get the sport growing again is to get interest in the racing. And for that we need all the top talent on the track at the same time!
dont need two classes on the track at the same time, although i agree with st46. the 250 class should be a true support class , and ran seperate.moving the top three up every yr, maybe even the top five or after so many points. guys like barcia, tomac, baggett, wilson are capable of running in the 450 now. imo this is why we now get riders that are able to dominate, bc the competition is divided into thre classes for sx and two for outdoors. put everyone on the same size bike and one class and let'm go
Lommel is not a track it's a dirty beach (only for eurofùckheads please)
99% of the riders (from all around the world) were not happy to be at lommel, they rather be in California, Spain, France, Italy, or Australia. Luongo don't care about the riders opinions, don't be blind, all that sh!t is for one thing stopping the US domination
and once again: 99% OF THE RACERS WERE NOT HAPPY TO BE A LOMMEL !!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND F%CKING IDIOT?????????????
lommel should be reserved for euro beach races or enduro, we are in 2012 damnit!
It's a shame to make the mxon in an ugly place, SERIOUSLY
But maybe "ugly" mean "wonderfull" for the europeans
."The only reason she got points is because there was less than 20 riders in each class"
that's what I said, it's not a world championship !
Actually Marriana Balbi finished 20th out of 29th, Leok 25th, DeReuver 26th, Barragan 27th ... 20th against the best 28 mx racers in the world, extraordinary!
world championship my @ss!
calling the fim mx gp a world championship is like calling all the ridiculous euro arenacross a world supercross championship
the GP's are second rate..........only a shadow of the 70's and early 80's when it was the most prestigious series in the world. the king is dead
Of course if a rider DNF's, he is classified behind the slowest rider. You must be a completely and absolute retard when you wrote: "Actually Marriana Balbi finished 20th out of 29th, Leok 25th, DeReuver 26th, Barragan 27th ... 20th against the best 28 mx racers in the world, extraordinary".
This shows how deep your culture is.
About the sand tracks, you scratch the bottom of the barrel, Belgium has always been a main MX country and it has plenty of sand tracks like this, your Medieval mentality blames the Lommel track for the American defeat, but what the hell are you talking about? You're not even American, you're not even allowed to go to the USA since you come from a land of terrorism, shut your filthy mouth so, we are the Western people and we don't take any crap from such a piece of crap.
you are too moron to understand, it's not about Team USA, it's about all teams for all around the world, 99% of all the racers were not happy to go to Lommel, what did you understand with that? lommel is shit as hell, the place, the beach track, the people, lommel give a very bad image to mx, what's next? the MXoN into a baraccopoli?
and an italian coward like you making morality to other? hahaha! and talk to an european is like talk to a whore, too liar and too coward to admit the truth
And Americans give the democracy to the Europeans! democracy is not an european thing, nazis is, communist is, dictature is, war/etnie massacre/lyings/copying/cowardice/propaganda etc etc etc etc
That's retarded
mx gp is an european championship that's all
yep the truth is always retarded for the eurozozos
"Belgium has always been a main MX country and it has plenty of sand tracks like this"
that's why belgians didn't have a gp champ since 5 years (first time in history of the gp's) their mx tracks are outdated, like lommel
and only europeans still use the term "motocross" (or motor-cross or lottocross!) the rest of the world call it MX or Moto X, retarded I tell you
Grand Prix de Belgique de Moto-Cross à Lommel !!!!!!!!
"Anaheim Supercross" sounds way way better ....
Medieval faces??? you talk about Cairoli and italians right?
and italians still think that "mafia" is democracy
europeans dream about AMA SX and AMA MX, the americans don't care about mx gp ... and they are right, the gp's are boring as hell, if you try to watch one you fall asleep during the third lap
...okay...
I'm a fan of the two classes being run together because I think it will help solidify the need for 1 professional class. I'd watch the GPs if they aired on any of the networks here in the US.
There only combining the mx1 and mx2 for the overseas gp of brazil and mexico etc , not all the gp races in europe...correct? This makes sense since only about 15 riders per class travel anyway
Eh. I like how we run things here much better. The only issue I see is the clingers in the 250 class.
Renè the Islamic idiot: I still don't understand why you don't do a favor to all of us, grab a gun and shoot yourself into your small chicken brain. Such a retard doesn't deserve to live any longer, you Iraqi piece of crap. Your country hasn't had 1 (one) motocross rider and you dare to open your filthy mouth? Shoot your brain idiot.
haha... Renè you're crazy!
when eurozozos talk about surfing it's not about waves, reef, take-off, bottom turn, tube, it's about internet! what a bunch of morons!
italian big mouth view of democraty "grab a gun and shoot yourself into your small chicken brain. Such a retard doesn't deserve to live any longer" hahaha!
that's why you want to live in US and not in europe and in your home country italy! what did you think the US need another stupid piza boy and chicken thief like you? stay into your stinky baraccopoli 35 years old boy!
what the best nickname for luongo?
"ATC" for Announced Then Canceled, "BFN" for Buzz For Nothing, or simply "Porky"?
+100pts for Rene..."Porky"LOL
all right for Porky, so, Porky Do It Again !!! ... (hope MXA will use that title one day)
Welcome to the Annual Porky Winter Buzz! (Part 2)
Guiseppe Luongo seems like a Mario Puzo character out of the Godfather series. He is truly the european Don King of motocross. Clearly this guy needs to fire his publicist...
Calling them Grand Prix races, which literally translates into "Grand Prize" in French, is an oxymoron since there is no prize whatsoever for winning one of them aside from a gaudy plaque and a bottle of cheap champagne. The local pro class down at the local chicken lips raceway pays out more money for the third place finisher than taking the top step of the podium at the vaunted "Grand Prix" of Dubai, or anywhere...
Power to the Proletariat! Power to the Proletariat! Power to the Proletariat!
As far as a nickname, I vote for Guiseppe Shlong-o, or just the Shlong.
shlongo zrbo meyer, the three amigos of MX Bandidos
and these shlongs didn't have plenty of fans except when they try to manipulates the mxon outcomet and he true reality of the world mx scene
At least I can live in US, regularly. You can't and will never be able, terrorist.
Freak
Actually those three mongooses are called Wine, Restaurant, & Champagne by the euro-eastern mafia ...
@ the biggest Shlongo's fan ever; padre manes!
you are lucky for now, soon the US police will know your hocus-pocus!
first time i was going to the US you are still on your cagiva 80cc (despite that you already 17 years right?) with your ugly M.Robert stuff on, and you still believe you looked like Ron Lechien ???? a little ugly shlong like you? you Ron Lechien? hahaha!
and hey padre manes europe is more close of irak than my island (with real white sand from the most beautifull sea in the world, and not some dirty brown sand from the sewers of lommel ...)
WTF now iv read some shit on here....but wow!!! rene u are off the chart!!!!!
you are making yourself look silly....im shore you dont ride or if you do your really slow.....you dont sound like a fan that rides (maybe you ride cows)
are you 8yrs old?? that could explain your stupid child like rants lol....
@ unoriginalbritish (probably not the new Roger Waters!)
You are too sissy and too slow that's why you have arm pumps, ride like me: really fast and like a man!
roger waters lol hmmm....gilmore...mason....never waters...
wow you must be fast!!!!! the best ever!! you dont get arm pump!!!! all the top pros get pump in some way....but not RENE!!!!! pmsl
shame your so far away....give me afew laps round your local track...and get your friends to film me.....you might learn something!!!!
dont worry we wont ride sand....we all know you dont like sand....hard pack loam....ruff ungraded im happy.....
you are more like syd barrett, pu.ssy, he can't take drug without brain pump ... or maybe your just a little f.a.g, that explains everything... great rider, great artist, great guitarist, david gilmour and probably more, f%.ck!ng wannabe!
day 1: first lap "oh i forgot my powerbar", lap 2: arm pump
day 2: first lap "oh i forgot my powerade", lap 2: arm pump
day 3: first lap "oh i forgot my muscle milk", lap 2: arm pump
...
syndrome?
S.I.S.S.Y
pmsl.... do you dribble alot and have body fits that you just cant control???
i bet the closest you have ever come to motocross ( thats what MX stands for)....is a renthal sticker...on your pack lunch box..lol...
M.U.P.P.E.T
thanks RacerX to delete my last posts and in the same time letting those zozos write what they want here (despite they are biased and anti-US) it's clear that you are totally owned by all the the anti-US, I call it "Hypocrisy" and even "Cowardice"
You remember me those people in the 1930's whot let powerfull dictators to do what they want
Again and again media make the same mistakes, and the funny thing it's when those media really believe that they are right, honest and are a good exemple
and if you really need the euro mx fans money, what you don't make a RacerX europe? so the fans of the USMX can coming here quiet and just apreciate the articles and the news from US, and those who want news from europe their are going into to RacerXE (looking that the level of their sites, IT'S SURE that you will be succesfull)