Yes, same as here in the US. Many promising national calibur riders who have little support from the factory teams. I can't even afford to ride this year at all. Haven't had a new bike in forever. ( riding a 01' Sherco 2.5 since 06') Our US star, Patrick Smage needs to be picked up by the Sherco factory team, he literally doesn't have the sponsorship money he needs to ride the Worlds. He has a fund that gets money for him to ride through donations. If he doesn't get enough donors, he doesn't ride. If the factory teams would help out more, you would see at lot less of this stuff. People could ride more often, and get better. A lot of our guys are starting to ride that Endurocross, seems there's some money in that. We've lost many full time riders to that now as well. Power to them if they make money, but that's beside the point.