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If you have gone to a national this year what have been the prices? $40 right?
Reason I ask is I went to buy my dad a ticket online for Father's day and they are $40 + a bull crap fee...last year they were $35 plus said fee ($2-3). So, why the heck would I buy a ticket online if its more expensive than at the track??
Reason I ask is I went to buy my dad a ticket online for Father's day and they are $40 + a bull crap fee...last year they were $35 plus said fee ($2-3). So, why the heck would I buy a ticket online if its more expensive than at the track??
40 bucks is equivalent to most other televised motor sports. NHRA drag racing/NASCAR/Sprint car/Monster trucks. All of this is better than crap seats at a hockey game for 85 bucks.
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$200 VIP pass
$-40 ticket
$-40 full day pit pass
$120 for:
Snacks and food pretty much all day
unlimited drinks all day (water, soda, gatorade, etc)
guaranteed shade whenever I wanted it
guaranteed seat whenever I wanted it
primo seating / track view whenever I wanted it
ability to walk into the track with a hat and my camera bag and not lugging a cooler, bags, food, chairs, tents, canopy, etc...
When I initially decided to go this route, I was skeptical... after... I found it WELL worth the price.
Granted, this was just me... taking the family would make it far less attractive. Although, if it were just my daughter and I, I think I would swing the extra $100 for the VIP passes.
The way I see it. I don't mind the ticket prices at SX because it is a comfortable location, you can see all the action, has food places behind or below you and bathrooms right there.
Motocross on the other hand has none of that and it is a brutal experience that I do not like subjecting my enemies to let alone family and friends especially of the female persuasion. That is why attendance in the past has been low, tv coverage spotty.
Maybe track owner and promoters will figure out, if you want to charge the big bucks for motocross admission, you better have huge shaded area, good toilets. Good spectator friendly viewing spots or giant monitors where the people can't see the action. Dave at Thunder Valley seems to have it down.
If mx is not made more comfortable while prices go up, I think we see a reduction in attendance as only the most hard core fans will show up. IMHO
He's wanting to know the cost to see if there is any benefit to ordering the tickets ahead of time. If it's $40 + 2-3 for processing online and $40 at the gate on race day why would he want to spend $2-3 per ticket extra...especially if he plans on getting like 5 tickets or more. That's money for food your throwing away...
God forbid if he ever was to venture overseas to an MX Grand Prix. Someone might spill beer on his white Ralph lauren chino's!, How would he wash the mayonaise/frites off his hands and re-moisturise without air conditioned rest rooms!
I appreciated that.
"If mx is not made more comfortable..."
Having been to many tracks on Non-National weekends, I'm amazed at the transformation each track undergoes in the hospitality department. That said, I realize many people do not have this perspective.
I wonder what some of your suggestions might be?
Short of avoiding summer months and/or trying to air condition 20 acres of outdoors, I don't think they could get much more comfortable being the outdoor events that they are. Possible adding more "general access" shade tents and maybe some kind of free water fountains (not sure how that would work as a portable system). Larger and more grandstand seating could never hurt, but I would guess that would be a burden on the track facility and not MXSports.
It is what you make it. Bring your family and friends and a coolers make a day of it. Personally, that is what I like about the Outdoors...I don't have to spend $30 extra trying to choke down a boiled stadium hotdog and a beer in a plastic cup. Maybe motocross could stand to be marketed as the budget family event that it is. This is how events like Loretta Lynn's come off (even though it is not marketed that way, or marketed as a spectator event at all). Half the pictures are of kids playing in the creek. It just looks fun to be there AND there's some motocross racin' to watch on the side.
Tote in a rock wall for the kids. Pass out a bunch of stickers as you come in the gate. Have a recirculating sprinkler to get cooled off. Bring on a sun tan lotion sponsor and pass out a few samples and enjoy the great outdoors! I can already bring in my own beer and sandwiches so I'm set.
Seriously, as an example of what we could hope to emulate....I went to the Phoenix Open earlier this year. Sure the weather was beautiful, but there were TONS of tents, grandstands, concessions, a pool, stuff for kids to do, and even a "day-care tent" was available. I went to watch golf but ended up watching it on the monitors in one of the tents drinking margaritas. Plus I came home with a ton of free shwag.
But there was also a VIP parking lot full of Aston Martins, Ferraris, and Bentleys.
I was hovering under an umbrella at Colorado waiting for the race to start, because I am hard core. My wife would never come and neither do the kids want to go. Just sayin
I bought tickets online the last 2-3 years... I know for a fact in 2010 the price was $35 per ticket (save $5), last year it was $37.50 after a processing fee (BS fee). This year it is $40 + the fee....I think I will buy the ticket(s) at the track.
I have been been to more AMA Nationals than you have. LOL I went to the MXON at Matterly Basin, did you go to any of the MXON's in America? Plane tickets to Budds Creek are not cheap. A few pics I took at some random races, I have been to a lot more, I have been to too many Supercrosses to mention.
Stewart and Tedesco at Matterly Bason MXON 06
Ricky and Ryan at Budds Creek MXON 07
Dungey, Short and Canard at Thunder Valley MXON 10
2011 GP at Glen Hellen
Hangtown Nationals 2012
I am just saying if they want to attract more people, make it a little more comfortable, especially for the women. For every guy that comes to a race there is a woman, and she will only keep coming if it is comfortable and she has shade and clean restrooms and a way too keep cool when it is super hot.
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I received a whole bunch of fun and pro motocross for my money.
Still think it's a bargain.
I've described Supercross as like going to Disneyland every weekend, and the Nationals as like going to a country fair. Each have their expectations...and their place.
Yes, the GPs have their pinkies-up VIP viewing areas with China and real silverware. I do think that's good for sponsors, but those accommodations can be made on a realistic level.
In some forms of racing (Indycar, etc.), the level of hospitality is way over the top. It's almost like going to a hospitality event, and a race happens to break out.
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