Pit Beirer spoke of his desire to have less races in the US than the current 31 race SMX schedule with 17 supercross races, 11 motocross and 3 SMX, events that has proven very popular with the fans and media
But Beirer took his fan hat off and put a rider and team perspective hat on saying:
“I would like to mention one thing, personal thing as an ex-rider, and working with teams and riders. I think we asked of too many races of our riders in USA. I know not everybody shares this opinion with me, but, just think logically…”
“Sometimes riders get injured and I found riders getting injured and, for them, I saw them even kind of released because that was the only time when they could really enjoy for three weeks without having any pressure and rushing to the next race”.
“For me, it’s unbelievable what Chase does going through the whole supercross season and the motocross season, and now going to SMX”.
“I love it. I’m a motocross fan. I want to see them on track every week. But in the long term, I will push from our side as a factory to all the organizers and promoters. We need to reduce that program a little bit because we are asking too much from the boys“.
“And thank you, Chase, for going through that week in week out. I think also to have a long career with riders and not being burned out too early, that schedule is crazy”.
“So, I’m sure it’s not the most popular thing what I say here now, but to protect riders in long term and the health of the riders, I’m 100% sure it’s too many races for the boys.”
