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Will I miss it when it's gone? Yes.
Do I think that "big business" will gain much by jumping into a sinking ship? Absolutely not! That's why they haven't so far.
I hate to sound like an ass hat, but this is like the definition of simpletons . They can't see the simple facts of how things actually have to work. Living under this "Obama umbrella"(probably crossed the line on this one) and believe that money is just going to appear and go to whatever need they deem necessary or to idiotic to understand how a business actually has to function.... That fact that it has to have customers(the audience) and make money to sustain.
Do you thin the PGA has a money tree or do you think they have multiple very large sponsors that allows them to pay their participants good money(helps that the PGA also gets paid to be televised instead of the other way around). Why do you think they have these sponsors? Because the sponsors realize that their are millions of people that watch and play the sport and that by being a part of it, it will get their name and products into the hands of these millions of people.
We all know that the sport isn't perfect, but it has to get better with progress. You can't just throw a bunch of money, that doesn't exist, at it and expect it to be fixed. I am sure DC goal is to get everybody more money, but he can't give what he doesn't have. We need the audience to increase so the sponsors will come so everyone can live happily ever after.....
Note: typos and shit that doesn't make sense will happen when your struggling to type with one hand while the other is pinned up with a shattered scapula and cuff damage so take it easy.
#1 tell all privaters to stay home and just let the top ten race for no purse..just dump the $$ in to presitation and tv coverage with the big 3 energy drinks logos every where...bound to draw coverage.
OR..
new format ..stock bikes off show room floor ..no mods done (strict rules)..all privaters invited with capable talent,very lg purse winner to get 100,000 on down..no riders with out side endoresment ..all sponsor to contribute to purse..it will get mainstream attention coverage...and I bet you will see differant winners..
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wow, I thought it was just the GP's that had it bad ACCORDING to some - seems it's also fucked in the USA as well....oh no here comes the demise of the sport ....... again.......oh wait, it's been coming for years and still hasn't materialised.......again......go forward 5 years - same chit chat about bullshit and the same "it can be done better, you are doing it wrong" will be getting spouted by mothers who haven't tried it themselves
Doesn't matter which side of the pond the answers are coming from about which series as they are all simply unnaceptable anyway.
I happen to agree with huck that things are going in the wrong direction and those at the top are just riding it down. We need some price controls from the local level to the professional level if the purse money is going to remain meager.
50 years shows us riders will continue to be used and abused then discarded without any compensation and leadership of this sport will continue to do so because another person will step into their spot. Nobody is trying to improve purse money and they never will. The track record proves this.
I wish I could snap my fingers and double the purse, but I can't. I wish that people like huck didn't think the sport were dying, because it's not. But it's not perfect for everyone, and it will never be perfect for the privateers. I was one so I know how difficult it can be. I am making the best fixes I can to this series, but not everyone will agree, and that's fine. It will just make us work harder to get it right. I have found that the best way to fix a problem is to simply go to work.
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Muddy Creek was a great looking track, almost even had infield viewing. I've said it before, if there are tracks like that out there, take Elsinore's race away and give it to one of those other tracks.
Not looking to argue, but how is the fan experience any better now than it was four years ago?
only if I had the funds to run a 4-5 race fall.. natural terrain ..series with my ideas...the mfg's would be thrilled as well after mkt companys..if only you could see whats ahead that makes sence.
go ahead laugh..its a solution..some hilly billy joe comes out of the forrest and wins..people would love to see it.
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Reed, I think he actually likes the sport and has done good for himself. He's shelling out a chunk of his own money to hang around. Not too sure how long he will hang around though.
Remember all the years RC kept his head down and cranked out championship after championship? Always photographed driving his old Z71 extended cab? His dad continuing to work? The modest house? He knew there was a limited life expectancy in this sport and he got the absolute most out of it that anyone could have. I don't think anyone will ever accomplish what he did in the time frame that he did. Makes you appreciate him even more now that he's sitting on his pile of money.
Regal ran the 2010 Nationals out of a Sprinter Van. We, Merge Racing, bought him four bikes to use for the summer. He finished the season with two podiums. And lost money as sponsors only provided product, no salaries. He then got picked up by a team for the following season and made money. That is racing.
OF COURSE we ALL wish riders made more money. YES the majority of racers do race for the love and they aren't getting rich. However, you can't gauge happiness in life, satisfaction, fulfillment or the ability to LIVE YOUR DREAMS by dollars.
I had NOTHING in the bank when I stopped racing, actually it was quite worse than that. I got hurt, A lot. However, I have the best memories, the coolest life lived, the best stories, been flown to traces, driven with friend, fights on the side of the road, lived in a trailer eating pb&j's, flown abroad to race. Not to mention the respect for my MOM as she helped send me to these races. It has made me the father I am today. I wouldn't trade anything for it. I was a "hope to make the main guy" and I used to complain that "we were the show and we are getting robbed". Heck I believed that when I quite. That is the reason why I quite. But in all honesty. THE REAL WORLD SUCKS WORSE. Racing, was better than ANY college degree (for me). I got real life experience and used it to get where I am today. That is what privateers need to do, look into the future from the beginning and learn marketing, budgets, strategy and communication skills.
In the big picture of life, not many people get through the year and are actually putting money away at the end of it. If you are getting to ride a motorcycle, travel the world, train and break even at the end of the year, you are doing a lot better than a guy sitting behind a desk, sitting in a bobcat, stuccoing houses etc, etc.... I know you "risk you rife" but you don't have to. Nobody is making you. Military guys firing guns at other people to allow us to be free can use that reason.
However, I still think the actual purse is way too low, as does everyone. BUT I also believe it is the best it can be for where the sport is right now. The older I get the more I understand that I would have done things WAY differently back when I raced. I used to hate when people or promotors said "we provide the platform for you to make money" but they do, but they need to allow the privatters to use that platform more freely!!!
I would go as far to say as, forget raising the purse!!!! Find a way to allow the privateers to sell merchandise. Let them get creative with local sponsors. Let them get more pit passes for potential sponsors. Let them be able to sell weekend sponsorship packages and give them the ability to cater to those sponsors.
That is what I would fight for this day and age.
Go to a local moto website where there is a race, advertise you will give 5 people the ability to display products, have a place to stay cool, provide drinks. have VIP passes, Be able to display said sponsors products, make them feel a apart of the experience. Make a grand or so by doing it that way.
The purse can't be relied on, so pressure the promotors into helping without money spent but accommodating.
Don't get me wrong, the purse needs to grown and be there, but I learned my lessons and looking back I would want other things different.
Oh, and one other thing I would rather see than a raised purse? Health insurance. Not secondary but actual insurance provided to the riders that race "X" amount of races a year. I am in a union with high risk profession and if you work make X amount of money you get the best insurance out there....
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