As someone who was involved with the last 2 CDN WEC rounds, I can tell you that the biggest reason for not coming back to NA was the cost of travel. The cost of coming to NA was just too much for most small teams to swallow. If you noticed, TM, Beta and Sherco didnt even show up this year and Gas Gas' only big name rider there was Nambotin.
In conversation with several riders, it was apparent that they were homesick and didnt like being away from their families for 3 weeks + in the middle of the summer.
Another big reason was the lack of interest from the North American riders. Other than Lafferty riding the US round, where was everyone else? It seems silly for the same group of Euro riders to come all the way over here only to race eachother again.
Until we switch to WEC rules in NA, I doubt we will ever see the WEC back on NA soil. There just isnt enough interest in it to justify them coming back again.
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