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AMA really should not allow teams to offer contracts for supercross rides only. It really does hurt the sport. Fucking outdoors in 5 years will be 5 factory guys and 35 privateers.That or make it so you have to compete 2 full season's before your allowed a supercross only deal if you need to compromise.
If you want the outdoor nationals to survive vote with your wallet.
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How could they?
The remedy is to combine points between the two and crown a "Grand Champion"
but hell who cares just go out and race and ride. all this pro stuff is for "watchers" LOL....
Someone from the butler brothers posted an article that showed the breakdown cost and payoffs of sx vs mx a while back. It was insane. It may have been over on racetime.
No way that could be.
If you had a dangerous, possibly life threatening job, and could make the same amount for only doing it half the year, would you?
FOX saying they are no longer going to sponsor the greatest rider in the world because he is SX only is not going to force a rider or team to compete in the Nationals, especially when FOX sponsors SX only teams like Hart & Huntington.
A Grand National Champion will hold as much marketing weight as the FIM SX Championship.
Whining definitely doesn’t work.
If the rider and teams are going to lose money racing they are amateur racers, not professional racers. It needs to make financial sense for the teams and riders to contest the Nationals. A better television package, lower costs, more inviting to team/rider sponsors. That is something that DC, MX Sports and the NPG are working on at this time. Give them some time to work on it. There are a lot of smart promoters in those groups that understand what needs to be done and will take steps to make it happen. We don’t need silly kneejerk reactions, we need the smart guys to do whatever it takes to fix it.
(arent they the ones that started it all?)
Seems like there are more AX only teams then there are SX only teams.
Why isnt anyone ever hammering on these teams/riders for not doing all the Nationals?
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All the reason more why they should be out there.
I'm sure he could make it in....
They should be the guys getting called out by the fans.
Not a guy who just swept 24 motos and has the outdoor series perfected.
THE AX GUYS ARE FAST - DONT KID YOURSELF!
i could have sworn when i was at Hangtown in 2006 , i watched Reynard holeshit and lead half the first 450 moto.
Danny Smith is also fast.
Maybe they wouldnt be scaping by if they did all the Nationals and proved themselves and got a decent ride.(maybe even the teams could bring in more sponsors from doing the Nats.)
Then someone will come along and say that the AX Teams can't afford to do the nationals.Well in business and especially in professional sports , the word "can't" means , they dont want to or they wont try.
Also...
James is making as much doing SX only as he made doing both SX and the Nationals.
He is being paid as much as he was when he was winning everything.
AS a fan i would rather see guys racing -not the same guy leading every moto by 30plus seconds or more.
For the benefit of the Nationals, I think the AX teams should be out there
to add to the racing-not the same guy winning by 30 seconds every weekend.
Someone with some common sense. Don't see a lot of that around here.
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