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Basically what you are saying is that the pits are more important than the race, and that’s a shame!
Oops. Meant to quote your last reply before my reply above.
Check you in the a.m. and will agree to disagree
Either way, none of the top riders will ever step up to Feld or the AMA.
I’m not saying last place needs to be a millionaire. I am saying that he deserves to cover his cost and have a little to show for it. Ask Robbie Marshall, Jason Brooks and Chris Canning. These are all talented New England guys who have given the sport a try and have had top 20 finishes at various nationals but they lost their shirt doing it. The money is there but the racers haven’t come together to demand change. You only see a social post every once in a while from a frustrated privateer and all it is is a puff of smoke that goes away. Privateers need to come together like a wildfire.
What kind of statement would it make if only the contractually obligated showed up to qualify and race? I think a pretty big one.
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Also Vitards: Once these backmarkers get lapped they should be black flagged, I'm sick of them effecting the race by getting in the way of the stars.
https://youtu.be/MhZrKoS4Ado
And, Johnny Hopper, really?
Imagine if the sport was thought out cradle to grave?
1. What if we have a better incubator for amateurs that didn't try to hand pick someone at 13 and watch them fail year one as a pro?
2. What if our pro athletes got start money instead of having to pay to race? What if they got some of the TV money (where the real money is) Who owns the TV rights??
3. What if we had a plan for our beloved athletes when they get hurt? We ALLLLL give money to them when something bad goes wrong. What if there was actually a system for support provided by the organizations or a partnering insurance company? That is why Geico came into the sport in the first place. I would love to get my health insurance from the same company that insures pro motocross riders. Has anyone called Aetna or Harvard Pilgrim for a meeting?
4. What if we had a place to go for our athletes when they are done in the premier class? Imagine a place where James, Ricky, Jeremy, Chad, Kdub, Poto felt comfortable enough to go ride for their fans? Buydos proving it is possible to make money with our retirees. I know I paid and will pay again to watch them ride!
If we’re talking about the box van versus semi thing, race trailers weren’t common back then and are now very viable. Offer a larger pit footprint and the ability to haul and offer more services to the teams.
Riders used to make way less money, OEMs were covering more of the total costs, and mechanics had to be on the road themselves all year to drive said vans.
Sadly, in some cases social media engagement, Business to business relationships and activation/data collection is more important than the races themselves. They do go hand in hand though, but the stuff happening outside of the track is typically bringing in more of the money, these other items are required to pay for the guys to go racing. NASCAR by example...it’s in a similar situation. Brands aren’t just paying to see a car go around in circles with their names on it, they’re paying for all the other assets the teams provide.
The world has changed a lot when it comes to sports marketing. Brands have so much more data coming in to prove if they’re getting return on investment. They can see how many dollars they spend versus gain on a car running around with their logo, versus some ads on google, and what type of return a team offers them with a business to business relationship they create for the brand.
From time to time, you get marketing guys at companys with big budgets that wanna just come in and throw some big cash around. But it’s primarily because they like the sport they’re spending in. Take example, you get Marketing guy A, he loves moto. Gets his company to spend a million dollars for little return or activation just to brand rider X. He gets to pal around, live the Dream a little bit etc. two or three years later he gets a kid offer from another company and leaves, or the company just decides to go in a new direction and lets him go. Enter marketing guy B, he has no clue about Moto and quickly looks over the spend. Quickly proves to the bosses that they aren’t getting much ROI out of it and convinced them golf is where they need to be (he likes golf and wants to hang with Tiger).
Or not?
But seriously who wastes that much time on such a shitty video.
Ryan isn’t out of money, he has other motivations for returning.
Jerry coulda probably made $100k more in his "career" if he could just finish 90% of the races he lines up for.
These guys aren't driving $40k sprinters, hauling around $10k bikes, burning through $1,000s in parts and mods because they are poor. VERY, VERY few of them are doing it on their own, most of them are getting checks stroked from Dad and Mom or someone else working a real job to keep them chasing their dream. How bad can it be?
If we are making motocross great AGAIN, when exactly was the last place lcq guy making more than just scraping by?
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Many times you guys get all mad and up in arms that you're not getting the real story or some shit, and here's ML who decided in a massive stroke of brilliance to start a motocross team during the season that'll have Cooties-virus, murder hornets, California is on fire, there's five hurricanes in the atlantic, Louisiana will get hit five times by hurricanes in 2020 and to top it all off, it's an election year.....Good job, Michael
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Sorry....
But he's been in the shit, had to fund a team, what sponsors want and what it takes...and you shit on the guy, or you just dismiss his input.
I can tell you, he's not wrong.
The things described to do, box vans, I hardly know any local racers that use box vans now, they all have toy haulers or toy hauler trailers, but using box vans is like 20-30 years ago at this point, isn't it?
Things are so way different now with the sponsor VIP areas in the pit areas, the catering, need the warm up stationary bike/rower/climber for the rider, how you carry that in a box van with everything else?
Why are the top 8 guys (random number) going to risk all their shit for the guy in the LCQ?
What ever happened to "I got mine, you get yours. Work harder," type of thinking?
Also, ask this....Who are the riders striking against? Feld? Riders don't work for Feld, they work for the teams.
Everyone wants to pay everyone more, just no one knows where it'll come from.
Seems to me, not long ago, everyone was praising Feld for ponying up the cash and the venue, all out of their pockets to pay for it, to complete the SX series and here we are a few short weeks later, ready to toss Feld to the wolves.
Feld has lost BILLIONS of dollars, and y'all wanna roast 'em and feed 'em to the dogs.
I don't get it
Box van was used for simplicity
VIP areas. There are suites for that
Warm up machines. Whats wrong with a few burpees or jumping jacks.
Getting back to the basics of motorcycle racing and direct sponsorships to riders would be a breath of fresh air.
That is all
Riders need warm up machines because they''re highly specialized athletes today, unlike the cigarette smoking, beer drinking, party all night racers of yesteryear....
Same for auto racing and other sports....your athletes are finely tuned machines, just like the bikes, and they need to be set and ready, as they see fit, at race time, in order for the investors to get maximum output.
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