<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ROCKGOD01 @ Mar 14 2009, 07:20 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Mexico hosts a nascar race and they do well with it. Good for them they are trying. They also hosted an NFL game and they are becoming a viable market but my guess is that is that if you asked the average mexican citizen they would describe it non satisfactory. If it was so great for them why are they trying to get to the US?
The Nascar race was canceled due to a large drop in attendance and popularity. Also Nascar set up a Mexico championship and felt this race would take much participation and coverage from the series. It ran well the first two years as drivers like Adrian Fernandez and Michel Jourdain Jr. ran well, but when the home drivers struggled, so did the fans finding a reason to go.
There are no current circuits in the country that could host a MotoGP round without massive reconstruction and updating. Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez (former Nascar, F1, and Champ Car circuit) has little runoff in sections. The final corner would be very dangerous for a bike, as they would be braking for it at over 160-170 mph, and with no runoff but a concrete wall, it would do deadly. Champ Car felt the cars were going too fast into the corner, and placed a chicane about 200 yards before the corner to slow speeds.
You have Fundoria Park in Monterrey, but that is alot like Melbourne is F1 and would not be a viable bike circuit. Many of the other circuits like the one in Puebla are just not large enough to hold an event like MotoGP.
Going to the satisfaction of Mexico. The country has very many families you could call middle class, but that also suffer a large group that struck in poverty, and those are the one's who come daily to the US.
Road America is a brilliant circuit. One of my favorites. But I do not see the promoters spending 10's, if not 100's of millions of dollars to fund the updating and rebuilding of the circuit for one event. You would loose much of the tracks tradition and possible historic sections that were cut in, or altered, just for one event. It does have a draw though. It is only a few hundred miles from Chicago. A much better draw that Salt Lake City for Miller Motorsports Park.
