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I agree with pisco...let the riders sell merchandise. Replica jerseys (stay out of this if you’re gonna reply with “posers wear sx jerseys to races”)
They need to be able to brand themselves and sell themselves to kids in the stands. If my daughter wanted a dean Wilson Jersey at his merch truck I’d buy her one....
why would you write off supercross as a loss? Field is a privately held corporation.
Oddly enough, you can get a used full team semi and trailer for 80-150k that's in good enough shape to operate for over ten years. A well equipped sprinter van is 70k plus. And yes, I can sell way larger sponsor deals against a semi and larger pit presence than I can against a sprinter. The sprinters and box vans will wear out and have to be replaced in 5 years with that much driving on them. The semi is going to keep rolling.
Factory teams do go nuts and have 700k to a million dollars in their trucks and trailers when they first spec them brand new...they do go overkill on layout, you can trim a lot of money by using a different trailer manufacturer other than Featherlite. Brand new, I could be in trailer and tractor for 450k if I was conservative on layout. Spread that out over 10 years of use, I'm in 45k a year. Factory teams are in theres 70-100k a year when the cost is spread over 10 seasons of use.
To be exact, I wouldn't have had any OEM support for my team this season if I hadn't brought a semi to the table. The amount of bikes and parts we got well offset the loss of fuel mileage and permits we needed to move it around.
https://www.feldentertainment.com/productions/
I think Feld got their start with the Ringling Bros. Circus, but shut that down 3 years ago.
With bringing a semi, you are allotted around a 100' x 30' space which to conduct your racing and activation needs in. And you get a more favorable parking location, especially if tied to an OEM.
Now there is a limit on how many semis a team can bring in. A team can't bring more than one semi in unless they have a connection to an OEM and a parking allotment gifted from them.
The OEMs, all through their deals with Feld, are given three spaces. A race vehicle, hospitality vehicle, and activation vehicle.
Say Honda uses race and hospitality to clear their first two trucks and they can use the third activation area at some rounds for a learn to ride thing (which they've done the past few years) or in years past, they gifted that spot to Geico Honda when they operated two semis for a season or two.
Pit Row
Feld also promotes a few concert tours
Some of these guys just need to market themselves better, tons of FREE ways to do this in todays world.
This whole " Write it off" argument makes me laugh a little.
It doesn't really work that way in privately held corporate accounting, but whatever...
to get a piece of the pie.
I’m all for setting high goals, but the top stick and ball sports are in a different league all together.
Feld doesn't give two shits about supercross. If they dropped that shit tomorrow, I bet they could post 1.2B profit.
But they can make even more money by not purchasing those expenses to begin with.
They only continue to operate Supercross because it makes them more money than it costs to operate, over the long run.
50k prize money for first place back in 1978 (20 second mark in the video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9E2gz4_Pg
On https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
comes out as $199,323.62 in todays money not too bad.
Edit: Thats $272,317.92 of my poor AUDs
I guess instead of me saying write it off, I should of said supercross doesn't generate enough revenue to pay these guys. My major point was feld could careless about supercross. The business will go on with or without it, so there's not much incentive to even pay these guys anyway.
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