They still had top level racing in the extraleage and yes they probably did lose some sponsorship but imo they are just not as good a rider as zmarzlik on a consistent basis, good enough to be in the GPs but not really title contenders, laguta’s win for me was always going to be a one off, he is fast when he is in the mood and average when he isn’t and imo sayfutinow was never going to win as much as he is a hard technical rider and as much as I want them in the series I don’t think they would be serious challengers