I have to say, English speaking media in Europe seems to be in a better place than ever in the sports history. Race coverage is first class from so many leading websites in Europe, and with so many teams and riders having proffesional press releases and video vlogs, many more eyes are on the sport now than ever before.

When I say that, I do not mean the current media are better than the old school lot, because as we know, media hasn’t gotten better over the years, and MXLarge is a great example of that. My English is average, and my work ethic well below the old school media guys, but the coverage of the sport in general, is just amazing at the moment.

Watching last weekends British Motocross Championship, via their live stream, we had Jeff Perrett doing the live stream commentary and Ben Rumbold doing the announcing around the course, two British media, who also cover the GPs and many other series in Europe.

Perrett does a brilliant job of reporting for the Arenacross and the British Motocross championship and has been around a long time. Same with Rumbold, who now does work for MXGP, not to mention one of the leading websites in the UK, DirtHub, which is becoming a very good website with a lot of up-to-date news, interviews and images.

We also have live streaming from the Arenacross Tour, the ADAC supercross and motocross series in Germany, the Italian International races and the Italian motocross championships, the Spanish championships, and many more.

I still remember when you had to wait a week to find out results, but now, its either live or the leading websites are covering it online moments after the event has happened.

Probably the best and most professional European media were names like Jack Burnicles, Nick Haskell, Alex Hodgkinson, Adam Duckworth, Harry Vam Hemmen, and so many brilliant media people from the past, who have worked for magazines around the World are just a handful of media that I know, and I loved reading their stuff. I respect those guys, because they covered the sport when it was truly in a romantic era, and they respected the people they worked alongside.

As I said, in Europe at the moment, the sport is covered better than ever before, with a handful of websites (that have replaced magazines) just in English alone and then hundreds more that cover the sport in their national language and many even have an English section.

The MXGP crew do a brilliant job of covering the series and led by Paul Malin, and Lisa Leyland, they make sure we see everything that is needed to see, and they are two very professional media. The Behind The Gate series is just sensational.

We have the new kids on the block from Cultmoto and their social media coverage is first class, and they work for a bunch of teams and riders in the MXGP paddock. They also do a lot of the vlogs for the riders and teams. Social media coverage alone has gone through the roof in recent years.

We have websites like Gatedrop, MXVice, MX1Onboard (Spanish but with an English section), Dirthub, Livemotocross or our own MXLarge, all that cover the races better than any websites have done in the past. Real race coverage, every weekend, full race reports, results and then interviews or video to go with that.

I could go on, because there are dozens and dozens of English-speaking media who do their share and none should be forgotten, because as small as motocross is, one thing you can count on, is the websites and media I have mentioned above to bring as much information as you would ever need. Great job everyone.

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