Okay, Germany is the only EU country to actually have a balance of trade surplus with China and the EU as a whole falls out at a rate of roughly 140 billion a year.
Specific countries such as Italy (20 billion per annum) and Spain (12 billion per annum) are falling into debt (rough figures rounded to nearest billion) cited from Eurostat news release 135/2012. That's the deal (no play on words honest)
Whilst the term borrowing is used I apply is broad to debt and any other usury relationship between those countries and China. In this sense I am utterly correct. I shouldn't use the word usury but I think it applies in regard to Chinas recalcitrant approach to market derived exchange rates and so on.
Whilst individual companies in Spain and Italy are going okay there is this thing called a European debt crisis. There is another place in Europe where olives come from (called Greece) and they are having a time of it.
Italy and Spain are not faring so well either and the whole countries are under the pump (do I need a citation, honestly just read a newspaper).
There also lots of stories in previous years about shrinking fields in Motogp, cost cutting, the introduction of CRT to counter this, rumours of spec racing Oh God how mundane... (again, knock yourself out, do your own research).
I think the structure of Dorna is irrelevant, (its a English Spanish omelette or something) but the teams rely on sponsorship and without breaking into a team by team discussion I'll just pull a few random names from this and previous years to assist
[]Telefonica (Spain)
[]Fiat (Italian)
[]Repsol (Spain)
[]Rizla (French)
[]Tech 3 French
[]Aspar (Spain)
[]Marlboro (Swiss or something)
[]Pramac (Italy)
[]Red Bull (Austria)
I threw red bull in because sometimes people mix up Austria and Australia, and they ring Tourist Information offices in Brisbane and want to go to where the sound of music was made and weird stuff like that.
The point is that only Swann Insurance from Australia puts any money in (and less than 1 million) for Casey Stoner. Nearly all of the money is European and Japanese. While the sport is doing it tough they don't want to alienate their key sponsorship prospects, audience etc with an antipodean champion whilst there is an attractive competing series.
This is just my opinion, a throw away line but each and every premise on which this is based contains sufficient fact not to be a parabola or a hyperbole or whatever.
