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First of all, sorry I didn't chime into the other thread, I had no idea what it was about until an hour ago, and I was somewhat surprised and a little bummed at some of the uneducated comments in there.
MX Sports Pro Racing is once again making our annual contribution to the Asterisk Mobile Medics, just as Feld Motor Sports does for supercross, donating $130,000 to the medical unit. (Our donation will be slightly less but still over six figures, which is the number Doc Bodnar and Tom Carson told us they would need to stay on the road for the 12-round motocross series.) We do not charge them for their sponsorship of the series, nor do we sell sponsorship to another knee-brace company. In fact, we pay about $10,000 per race for them to be at each event.
I was not at the riders' meeting so I don't know how Doc Bodnar worded his speech about others stepping up now and then to help the unit, just as the Kurt Caselli 66 Foundation did with donating brand new equipment. But over the years less and less donations have come their way, maybe because they've been at it so long that they are overlooked, but their cause is as vital as ever. Road 2 Recovery has donated $25,000 and they are also hosting a fund-raiser at Miller Motorsports Park -- a go-kart race for the riders and teams who want to sign up and help out and also have some fun on the karting track next-door. JGR has always been there for the medics, and so has Pro Circuit, but the costs keep going up -- it's the nature of the business.
We have all been trying to come up with new fund-raising ideas, like maybe a Friday night foot race/walk around each national track for fans who make a small donation, or an end-of-the-season Halloween Party for the motocross industry out in SoCal, with all the money raised going towards the mobile medical unit. The medics don't want to charge the riders for their services, but it would be nice every now and then to hear about a rider or team who was helped by the medics and he bought them a tank of fuel to get them to the next race...
What are you doing to help the mobile medics?
DC
MX Sports
MX Sports Pro Racing is once again making our annual contribution to the Asterisk Mobile Medics, just as Feld Motor Sports does for supercross, donating $130,000 to the medical unit. (Our donation will be slightly less but still over six figures, which is the number Doc Bodnar and Tom Carson told us they would need to stay on the road for the 12-round motocross series.) We do not charge them for their sponsorship of the series, nor do we sell sponsorship to another knee-brace company. In fact, we pay about $10,000 per race for them to be at each event.
I was not at the riders' meeting so I don't know how Doc Bodnar worded his speech about others stepping up now and then to help the unit, just as the Kurt Caselli 66 Foundation did with donating brand new equipment. But over the years less and less donations have come their way, maybe because they've been at it so long that they are overlooked, but their cause is as vital as ever. Road 2 Recovery has donated $25,000 and they are also hosting a fund-raiser at Miller Motorsports Park -- a go-kart race for the riders and teams who want to sign up and help out and also have some fun on the karting track next-door. JGR has always been there for the medics, and so has Pro Circuit, but the costs keep going up -- it's the nature of the business.
We have all been trying to come up with new fund-raising ideas, like maybe a Friday night foot race/walk around each national track for fans who make a small donation, or an end-of-the-season Halloween Party for the motocross industry out in SoCal, with all the money raised going towards the mobile medical unit. The medics don't want to charge the riders for their services, but it would be nice every now and then to hear about a rider or team who was helped by the medics and he bought them a tank of fuel to get them to the next race...
What are you doing to help the mobile medics?
DC
MX Sports
How about a Friday night pit bike race around the national track!
I really like the idea of riders or team members giving back to them after using their service. I have not heard of this, but has it happened in the past, or have we just not heard about it?
The Shop
good on you for making a point to issue a statement, you definitely weren't required to do so.
If we did a public track walk on Friday afternoons, for any donation, it seems like that would work too, but then someone would probably trip and take us to court...
DC
MX Sports
That said, I wish I had a good fund raising idea to give you. Outside of giving fans ride time on the track, I have nothing to suggest.
Perhaps a new title sponsor is in place..
For probably a million dollar equipment truck/ trailer.
Plus the 10 or so employees they have at each race.
.............
Also in that sentence it's "their" not "they're" (they are).
Maybe a Mt.Bike race, too, so Guy B has a chance?
I'm in...for...let's make it Indiana, The Shoug and The Dilla...at the very least.
Also, I'm challenging Jeff Weiner/TLD-Pro-Goon to ride a Mt. Bike around the MMS track in less than 10 minutes & I'll pay $1000...this won't be easy, he's currently wearing a cast! (Call this Incentive amongst friends: if he's not healed? Bill Keefe can stand-in @ 8 minutes/lap).
I'm pretty sure that you could coordinate a race that is "Vintage-Historic" & that way we can actually SEE some of those Maico's, RC's...OW's...RH's on display...gettin' DIRTY! (Yes, Newmann: Running, Racing...DIRTY!)
I've had my riders in the Asterisk rig for everything from broken bones to split-chins...all I can say is, "Thank you, all!".
Let's do this...
Manny
Pit Row
But I do have a few questions that are lingering in my mind. You don't have to answer them because you have taken care of the problem but Im going to ask them anyway.
Why is it that Doc was thinking he was going to be short on funds, was MXsports not going to step up with the donation? Was there some debate at Mxsports over the value that AMMU was providing?
I mean it was the riders meeting at the first race of the year and the staff of the AMMU were obviously under the assumption by their comments that there was a debate as to their value.
You would have thought that MXsports would have communicated with Doc and let him know the check was in the mail well before the first race and I commend Doc for going on faith that the funds would be there.
You said in your original comment that MXsports was once again donating, so was there a debate as to whether you would or not?
Why should spectators foot the bill or be asked to donatell to keep a great service for riders in operation? If they value it make the them foot the bill.
Isn't it late in the year to be realizing you're out of money? Aren't most sponsorship/support budgets long ago finalized?
AMMU was under the assumption that some people were debating their worth and maybe thats why the check was slow in getting to them. I would like to hear why the check was slow and what was being debated.
Thank you.
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