Talk:List of Motocross riders
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[edit] Useful resources
Not sure if Orsoni has been using this already, but [page] on the French Wikipedia has a list of world champions. Pickle 19:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
The Supercross article also has a full list of AMA 125, 250, 500, SX Lites and SX winners and SX World Champions (125, 250, SX Lites and SX) Pickle 19:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rob Herring
IIRC Rob Herring was born in South Africa but is British (I'm fairly sure he rode for the UK at the MXDN....) Pickle 19:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- By all means change his flag icon to British if he has become a British citizen.Orsoni 12:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- I couldn't say for sure, but he has represented GB at the MXDN. Thus he might be dual nationality? (he was born out there IIRC). I'll change it to UK, but if anyone's got evidence otherwise its a very ambiguous one.
- Pickle 23:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] British SX Champs
While you can quiet clearly point at a British MX Championship, it is very hard to claim that someone has a British SX championship as no such championship *really* exists in a consistent way - there are often multiple competing championships in a winter SX season, etc. Pickle 19:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- I was just going by the information on Rob Herring's website. Please delete it if it's not true :) Orsoni 06:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- It's not that its not true, but SX on the UK is not like SX in the States where it is a clear and notable achievement to have won. Some years there have been 3 competing series taking place. Without integrating some better informed MX fans of that era i would hesitate to try and list any claim to be British SX champion for a specific year. Pickle 13:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] World Championships by nationality
1) have you a source for the stats ? 2) the "problem" with these is that it dosen't really account for the switch from 3 classes (500, 250 & 125) to 2 classes (MX1 & MX2)
Pickle 23:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- I just Googled them off the web :) I can change the classes. I think the MX1, MX2 & MX3 names were created by the FIM in an effort to make motocross friendlier to the casual viewer (read: TV audiences). Something which I think they failed miserably. There's no logic behind it. It should logically be MX1=125cc, MX2=250cc, MX3=Open class.Orsoni 03:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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- a) fair cop ;)
- b) of course its marketing by youthstream (who the FIM just say yes to), but it was at this point that the 500cc/Open class riders of quality (previously the premier championship) all migrated with the factories, teams and sponsors to the 250cc class (eg Smets and Everts to the detriment of Pichon and Coppins). MX3 is now a 3rd rate championship that is really low down on people's radars. thus IMHO a cut off should be made in any statistics.
- Pickle 19:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
