The STRANGE Reason Why There Are NO Americans in MotoGP

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Italy and Spain have development programs from childhood and have had since the early 2000s. The rest of the world doesn't. America has one of the lowest quality national series in the world. There is no way MotoAmerica can produce a motoGP star.

Because the AMA handed superbike to DMG who tried to NASCARize the series, making it so different from FIM that it was no longer a route to the world stage.

Nicky Hayden is the reason I ride a '06 cbr1000rr........everytime I'm at Phillip Island doing track days he's in my thoughts...🇦🇺

Watching the Hayden brothers, Mat Mladin and Ben Spies battle it out on the SPEED channel in AMA was the glory days of motorsports television. Between the AMA supersport/superbike class, FIM world superbike and MotoGP there was always a race on.

One reason is that most American GP racers were from California, and California with its extreme environmental policies closed down most of the motocross and other tracks.

Colin Edwards said, the american tobacco money funded americans to ride and progress through the ranks. Thats why you dont see americans anymore because it was around 2010 they banned visual sponsorship on the bike. Like at schwantz (lucky strike) rainey (malboro) times for example. In 2007 there was 4 american riders with hayden, edwards, hopkins and roberts jnr. Motogp is just a smaller version of f1 where money talks. Obviously being a spanish championship you have a huge advantage being spanish progressing. And now with Vr46 academy thats an easy route for italians. But for any other country, its difficult. Especially brits, aussies and americans which jave shown such great talent before and still do incredible at superbike championships

Cheers mate. Tanks from a Yank on this side of the pond. It would be great to have a US racer in the running again. 👍💪🌭🏁🇬🇧🇺🇲

I've just sort of accepted that the we lack the appropriate feeder series to compete at the highest level at the moment. Spain got it right and implemented the rider development programs for youth and it's paid off immensely. But that also required a lot money, patience, and interest. I'm not sure the US has any of that right now.

USA is dirtbike culture more than street racing

It’s strange how we have ZERO american sport bikes outside of buell in this massive country and we cant build a sport/motor GP bike. But we can build Lemans winning corvettes and ford GTs

don't count on liberty media to bring an American rider, they didn't even let Anretti in F1

A big thing in the 70's and 80's especially was that you could race a US domestic championship and get noticed and get a MotoGP ride. That path just doesn't exist anymore, and for good reason. Kenny Sr got on the radar of MotoGP teams by winning the national flat track championship! Incomprehensible these days, it just doesn't prepare you to be a grand prix rider. You have to go through either the Spanish CEV or Italian CIV ladder systems to get the skills and be taken seriously for a Moto3 ride. Without greater American commercial interest, American junior riders will never get the funding to do this en masse, though hopefully Liberty will help with that.

Haven’t watched a single race since DMG took over and made the races basically pay per view. My dad and I used to watch every race together.

After US riders with dirt riding experience revolutionized moto GP with their techniques and started to dominate, European riders started adopting the techniques and training. With the much greater interest in the sport and access to tracks, Europeans took back the sport.

You're too slow that's what happened. Looking back, Hayden was fast enough to be on the heels of Rossi. I don't care what people say about the 2006 title, Hayden WON because he was able to be competitive and consistent.  More recently, Gagne is nowhere near as fast as he'd need to be to compete and his wildcard proved that. Cam crashed out of every single podium chance he'd had in moto2; Roberts is the best hope for an American in the premier class because he is both FAST and CONSISTENT.

I love MotoGP…but every time I see 5 Spaniards and 3 Italians in the top ten i see why MotoGP doesn’t have a bigger world following. We need more Americans, British, Japanese, Australians..more everything apart from these two nations.

YOU FORGOT COLLIN EDWARDS THE TEXAN!!

Another issue is that back in the day of Roberts, Spencer, etc., is that there were still true privateers following the circuit, as it was more affordable to race back then. That, coupled with the lack of grass-roots racing in the US, due to the lack of "neighbourhood" tracks, has had a big impact on the sport. Don't forget that Roberts, Spencer, Lawson, Rainey, Schwantz, and Hayden were all dirt trackers, before they road raced.

I think the problem is the difference between growing up competing with street motorcycles or competing with prototypes is very big and for this reason riders like Ben Spies Colin Edward did not finish performing, the key is to create riding schools and promotional cups that Use prototypes like in Spain and Italy. In Spain at the end of the 90s, a very good promotional cup was created from which riders like Stoner and Pedrosa immediately emerged and 30 years later we have seen how Spain dominates the MotoGP World Championship by work done for this, if the USA does the same as Spain did in a couple of years the results will be seen