Adsy i totally agree with your P.s about financial help towards international events and infact its probably an understatement.
At every world round there are team trucks all been oragansised and funded by the other countries' trials committees including spain, france and Italy. all this from these teams and how many french or italian riders are in the top 10 in full world championship...0. but still get enough sponsors together to fund a team, why cant the ACU???
We have 3 riders in the top 10, one of which (dougie) doesnt require any financial nor proffessional backing as hes been world champ so many times and you can argue dougie made it to the top alone before been picked up by sponsors and such like but can we see someone who is going to repeat that??
take the junior world championship, if it wasnt for Browny getting into the TTT he would have had no financial or proffessional backing. and the fact that he is in the TTT is not down to the ACU!!
whereas his main 2 competitors oliveros & gilbert have been backed from the RFME from the age of about 10 all with proper minders, mechanics, cooks etc... how does he compete with that????
similarly with wiggy, haslam, sampson, danby in the 125 world championship no help what so ever from the acu in terms of a team with backing. up against the likes of gubian, Karim with backing from the french federation, Grattarola from team italia and i believe Gomez is in the RFME team.
there is no wonder when you look in the top 7 of world championship there are 5 spaniards!
why is nothing been done???