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how did they come up with 150K for 4 races ?
if so i would stay in Europe if i was Malcolm , dont think he makes 40K a race in the USA and podiums each race
As for this race specifically, I think you'd have to talk to Eric Peronnard if you want to argue about it not being worth it to the promoter.
150K for 4 races ... sure .... i quess you show us the real numbers ??? maybe in Bercy ,Paris for 40K where the stadium is filled with people
take a good look at all the pictures how many people those payed riders attract ? a few hundred ?
doesnt make any sense ...hey but like i said ..just my opinion , you dont have to agree . Fact is you dont know what they make
$40,000 to show up? You said you heard this from the riders on the pulp show? I don't think those numbers are right. I remember hearing numbers of 5K - 10K. If you do a lot of winning I could see that number ride quite a bit , but for 40K just to show up I believe is incorrect.
And they usually don't ship any bikes over. It's usually just forks and a shock stuck in a bag , which is what they take with them. Stuck in the belly of the plane like luggage.
I remember a podcast about Cianciarulo after he got hurt at one of them last year and people were talking about how stupid he was for going. But then the point about him being offered something like $50k to go was brought up. DV has talked many times about how he would make a lot of money racing the European SX races but Factory Yamaha made him insure his contract which he said was a lot of money to do but he was getting something like $50k a race to go. Eric Peronnard has said that in the 90s Jeremy was getting $100k just to show up to Bercy SX. Jim Holley told a few stories about having tens of thousands of dollars in cash from these races back in the 80's. The list goes on and on.
I never said Malcom got $40k to show up in Bulgaria but for all anyone in this thread knows, maybe he did. Or maybe he got $4 but all of his expenses paid and he just wanted to go to Bulgaria really bad so he went. I don't know but I do know that I trust what Racer X publishes more than I trust what is said on a message forum.
Malcolm:
A lot of the riders get paid to show up, and it doesn’t make any difference if you win or not. Fortunately, this is one of the races where if you do win or get on the box, you do get a watch. So I think that it’s kind of cool that these guys changed it up for us. I can’t imagine what they’re going to do for next year.
Barcia, Canard 50-60K or more..it depends on how many nights the race is. Genoa is one, Sofia was two, Bercy was three...
MC, DV got 100K back in the day for Bercy.
And most guys are shipping bikes now, very few dudes just bring parts anymore at the level of racing of the above racers.
I feel very good about my sources on this.
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he also said ?A lot of riders turn down this stuff, and they might regret it if they didn’t. You take this little chump change like this and just throw it in the bank and then go make your real money at A1.
so 40K a race is just crap , lets go for real money at A1 .... what do they make a race at A1 ?
somthing doesnt match between what is said here and what malcom says in that interview
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