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Its a great sport I love...but sure run the wrong way.
Matthes since you were there when it was talked about that Glen Helen did not need Asterisk because we had the Symons Rescue with 2 Trama Doctors and several Paramedics and Bud said we don't need you and they asked if they could trade it out and Bud and Asterisk agreed and then they keep asking for payment and Bud kept saying I will pay you when you invoice me and they never did until a few months ago and it was paid. You were there for all of that right. Since your and insider and just like DC are never wrong. Get over it. This was about the purse and who pays it and how much. The tracks pay the purse money to MX Sports and what they do with it and how much they give the riders is their choice. They have increases in the contract for the purse. If it's $4000 or 10,000 a year it does not matter. The riders deserve more money. But the top riders don't need the purse the non-factory riders do. The ones who pay out of their pocket. This sport has peaked because you can't attract the big name sponsers becasue its not Nascar, its not Formula 1 and its not Golf or any other sport that the masses want to watch or try. Prove to me we have new people involved becasue they saw Supercross or an Outdoor National from watch it on TV. The young kids now had parents who were involved. The largets group out there riding are over 30 and the number over 50 is bigger than ever before and its not from TV it because they love what the sport use to be not what its become. Sometimes you need to step back and look at where your at and then slow down. Matthes in a few years you will have reached an end of a Great Career in this Business and so will I who has only done nothing and you know who they are going to miss more? Neither one of us becasue they don't care. Again let it go and watch the dam fall apart. Its coming and you know what. It has no effect on my life at all becasue I have a job and life away from the Circus you play in. Lifes to short and there are to many clowns already. The tracks are paying out more money for everything and only a few make it back. Thats business I guess, some will survive and others will fail. Watch who's left after this year, watch AMA is gone after this year because like GNCC MX Sports feels they dont need them. Watch them not bid with DMG for the Nationals next year, oh wait the Pro Motocross Championships. Its no secert out there, its not a rumor I started I heard it at the start of the year. I know what I am told by people who can't say a word because they don't want people to know what they hear. I just work at a track and speak up when people don't tell the truth because they want to keep this God like image. I don't care who likes me or who hates me. Every thing I say is my opinion and I can voice it. But from what I hear there is a crack in the Dam. Lol this is like shooting fish in a barrell. By the way I loved Muddy Creek and it being slowed down. They did a great job.
Asterisk has yet to be paid.
They don't expect to be either judging by the way Bud does business.
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The entire them not being asked to show up is a bit of a "misguided" statement as well.
Being good at business does not make you a saint or any less of a scumbag.
How about some real info, like the purse break down ? And who gives a shit where the money comes from
TBright, paying riders "on the spot" would be great, but it's also problematic to have a line of 80 riders waiting to get paid in the hours after a race. Direct deposit seems to working well, except for the couple of days with these recent snafu. And we have tried to discuss ways to spread the money down further and skip factory riders, but that's not as easy to do in reality as it is in theory. We are working on speeding the direct deposit process up.
The race tracks do post the prize money, and MX Sports processes it for them. MX Sports also helps find event title sponsors like Ford, Red Bull, GEICO, etc. (Thunder Valley did a great job of getting Rockwell Watches pretty much on their own, as did Washougal with CAT.) The title sponsor helps the tracks make it all work.
And Matthes is right: Asterisk did not get paid for the USGP and it's an unfortunate situation. It also costs much more than $3000 to bring out that whole rig and it's crew for a weekend.
DC
MX Sports
Direct deposit sounds great if it drops into the account on the Monday after the race!
All you ever do is offend.
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And any rider who needs cash to get to the next race knows that they can go to the AMA rig and ask for a cash payout instead; it happens from time to time (and I just paid Desalle and Strijbos cash this week for Thunder Valley, as it's kind of complicated to wire money over to Europe and go through all that, and needless to say, they were pretty stoked).
I am going to call Doc Bodnar later to check on him and see what that outstanding invoice is so Mr. Info can take it to Bud and get it sorted. The rig is too important to the athletes and teams to be have outstanding payments that are now years old.
DC
MX Sports
But, I am betting that if the tracks didn't come up with the extra coin, then they couldn't participate in the series, therefore, "forced".
When is MX Sports going to throw in some $$$ to the purse?
We also pay the full purse at the events we are directly involved with, like High Point this weekend (and unlike what Mr. Info said earlier, MX Sports gets nothing from the general admission ticket sales at other events).
Speaking of that, lunch in the announcer's tower here is over and it's time to get back out on the track.
DC
MX Sports
Yes DC you have made some great strides forward in many area's, and credit where credit is due. But the purse is not one of those areas and I hope that in the future this will be resolved.
The return on investment for these riders is getting worse by the year especially with the 4 strokes because everything it takes to participate is going up exept the profit for participating in a race.
I have not said anything rude to DC, I have not said he is horrible, I have not said he has done a poor job.
I just don't understand why surfing, which is also a niche sport, can offer such gigantic purses compared to moto. I guess it must be because of the track and equipment? Everything else is pretty much equal: travel (to foreign countries which costs more), insurance, hotels, phone bills, wireless, so on and so forth, staff that runs the events, and the ASP fees, tv, live streaming video.
One huge difference is that the surfers formed a union, and what happened after they did that? Wham, their purses went up!!!
Just asking questions,(which he hasn't answered all) and looking for ways to help the riders who are in the 10-40 place bracket make more money. Thank you for answering questions, DC. But, DC, please also remember, the survival of the series also depends on the racers. Which, by the end of the series you tend to have so few of.
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