I am all for international exposure and experience, but unless these riders return to SA and continue to race track on a regular basis, and so uplift the general standard of Junior racing, this may be money that could have been better spent. In one of the communications, they excused a riders performance "because the rider had only been riding for 5 months", should riders with so little experience have been sent ? Would sending these riders to a smaller GP or similar event not been more motivating for the riders than dropping them into the deep end at a World Champs ?
