It (the format / age limitations) might be a match up to the FIM / Youthstreams EMX125 series, that was held, seperate, and sometimes with , the MX2 / MX1 GP series. It was good racing, the final round was held in conjunction with the final GP of the year in Italy.
Contrary to what a lot of people expected, including myself, it wasn't a KTM benefit series, as a young fellow won on a Suzuki. I think that KTM might have done the decent thing and not brought the weight of it's full factory effort into the series, or, perhaps, it may have been limited to 'shop teams?
I think it's time that the MX3 class became the 125 class in World GPs - MX3 as it is, is a feeder class for the GPs (or , moreso, it's become a feeder classs for the EWC / WEC series, by the amount of blokes that go from MX3, to World Enduros
), as is the EMX-MX2 series. MX3 hasn't really provided a series for Big Capacity bikes, within the 500 2t/ 6504t range as it originally started as. With 350 KTMs being raced in it - Jussi Lansoo (sp?), who some may remember as doing very well in the US a few years ago, as a privateer, raced one from reports - they have obviously shuffled the minimum 480cc (or somewhere near that) 4t capacity, aside.
There's not much catchet / history to the MX3 name, so bring MX3 to 125cc, MX2, and MX1, all with equivalency. MX1 back to maximum 500cc. Not because I want 500cc 2ts out there - I ride one, and there's No Need for their return, as somewhere near a 400 would be the sweet spot for a modern 2t, but purely because each time I've ridden various overbored 450s, or their factory made 505 / 511 variations, that are more like 470 / 480cc , they have been nicer than the 450 versions.
We'd be back to the classic classes, with a big variety in the MX1 class, with all types of sizes between 300cc to 500cc, in both stroke types.
Then, No Age Limits in Any class.
GPs back to 40 +2 - I'd suggest it for the US Nationals but when I've done that elswhere, it's been greeted as making the sport too hard, both for riders and spectators, there......
The racing world would be put to rights.
As a plus, Honda, or any other company that wanted to, could roll out a 34/40mm stroke 4t 125s, to acheive the revs to get power to compete with 125 2ts, as surely the 4ts could be competitive, since they are so much better than antiquated 2ts?
Mind you, the FIM / Youthstream have allowed twins in MX1, so logically they should be allowed into the new MX3 class, and MX2 as well. They banned them as being too expensive for the sport many years ago, but, hey, 4ts haven't been much of an expense issue, so what could two cylinders do to racing that might be detrimental?
By the way, I'm being deeply sarcastic with the 'twins' thing, before some noodle comes on here screaming at the suggestion.
I'm just back from the MX Des Nations, great racing, and I got to put just over 2.5 thousand Ks on a mates Super Tenere, during my wild charge down to the track, then my leisurely way back to Paris along the coast.
