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If you remember this has been going on for years, back in the 90's there was the Ducados series, big money and hugely beneficial to people like Aspar, Pons and Roberts for bringing in new talent, it's where guys like Gibernau, Checa, Lavilla, Roberts Jr, Rossi raced aswell as European series.
It's always been the case, but these days it seems far harder for teams from Germany, Italy, US etc to get involved, there just isn't the world involvement, you used to have Japanese teams like FCC and TSR, there is no Docshop now, or Stiggy, or QUB, or Roberts. With the loss of these European and Japanese teams it's easier for the Spanish to dominate as all the series is run there, financed there, and you have the feeder series running Buckler aswsell, just like Ducados Open did.
Its always been the same. the issue now is that Spaniards can ride better, they are not just pay riders like Cardoso, Puig, Giro, Gibernau, Criville were when they first came in, they would come in backed by Campsa, Fortuna, Ducados, Coronas, that would give them leeway.
Now your Marques, Vinales, Pedrosa, Elias are world beaters. Whereas before they would be up against Japs, Italians and French with a few other in there, now it is mainly Spaniards
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