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After listening to the interview pulp did with the world supercross guys. I actually gained more doubts about it becoming something listening to the goals they have in mind and the approach that was taken to gain access to the teams at A2. What does vital think? This thing going to rival feld or is it going to shit the bed?
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What are the venues?
Who are the teams?
Who are the riders?
How is the purse paid out?
What’s the broadcast going to be like? And how can we watch it?
Until we have specific answers to those questions it’s just noise…end of the day everybody has to make money if anyone along the line doesn’t it will fail…
"Smoke and mirrors" tends to be a term used to suggest deception. Misdirection. You must not have got the memo.
The team behind this global push has runs on the board. Seriously successful sports entrepreneurship. Foundation based dedication to the sport with no limits to their imagination and showmanship. We are lucky to have these guys interested in this sport.
The expansion and movement of SX towards a being global sport is warranted and can only benefit the sport at every level. The roadblock will be the Americans. There's a view widely held in America that they are the world. The centre of the universe and the totality of the universe. There are world titles granted in the US when no international border was crossed by any participant. However, the US remains the market that everyone wants to move into. International events are time to be consumed by the US market. There's a lot of dollars to be made by anyone who scores even a small goal in that market.
The guys proposing the global SX comp are focussed on all participants in the sport being rewarded for their participation. The teams structure they propose brings the teams to the forefront and makes them of the pulse of the sport.
There are riders who will gravitate towards the global competition at the expense of their participation in the US nationals. I'm sure the situation will arise where they can make more money and live a better life riding 6 or 8 months of the year globally rather than the almost year-round effort required for riding in both the SX and MX events. The global SX will possibly have triple crown events that may well attract older rider where the shorter races require less fitness. I might be wrong there, but there would be riders who would extend their career to race 3 x 12 minute races.
The SX Global series will need only one or two major signings in terms of riders to move into success. One Eli, one Malcolm, one Cooper, one Jorge, one Romain. Well, maybe not Romain . . . One Marvin or Kenny.
SX Global will make phone calls with offers too good to refuse. Participation in a season or two will set a rider up for life. The trick will be to get teams to sign on. US based and US focussed teas will be a tough sell.
If it can be done, if anyone can do it, these guys will have a really good go at it.
I am also old enough to remember the first Supercross wars and I have all the details on paper.
These companies can do some sneaky shit like lock up venues for years and shit. When Clear Channel (CC) owned supercross, that is what they did. When AMA wanted to split off with Jam Sports, CC went out and booked every major stadium with the exclusive rights to dirt based events, SX and Monster Jam (MJ).
This was leaving the AMA/Jam guys with no where to race but college stadiums (tiny) or Walmart parking lots
It was crazy
Point being, this is far from over and the questions DonM asked were many of the problems AMA/Jam had in moving forward.
BTW, this all the how and why the FIM got involved in AMA Supercross
Never happen.
Driven by so many beautiful stadiums and asked "why not race in there" and met with only laughter.
It's happened in every single form of racing.
And a team.on different brands of bikes ??
Yeah, right.
Just think of the mechanical logistics of that.
The US TV deal is questionable as well.
Even now we have cbssn giving us only second moto coverage of MXGP.
But the biggest thing I'm taking away from this is,
They want to develop something by ultimately robbing an existing series of what they've developed over the years.
Many years.
But, Feld's profiteering from the riders, and giving back little in return, leaves the door open for this to at least get off the ground.
Until the behind the scenes money issues bring this WSX idea to a screeching halt.
To us moto guys it's a no brainer, so forget your feelings.
But they have to find WORLDWIDE sponsors, like Monster, who can benefit from associating their name to it, and that list is pretty small and gets smaller when you bring it into racing, then break it down to motorcycles then to dirt bikers.
Man, that demographic got really small.
Other than the OEM's, what worldwide motorcycle company has the cash and sway to do both AMA and WSX?
This isn't F1 and it's taken F1 decades on TV to get where it is.
You have to convince global CEO/CFO/Marketing people that their ROI worldwide will be well worth it.
That's a hard sell.
Oh, and remember, billboard space on a bike and rider is tiny or totally obscured during a race....
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If the top riders can make more money in the new series, they'll move over and the Feld series will die in less than 2 seasons. If not, the new series will die almost immediately.
And for those saying marv and kenny will be lured away ??
They can go.
Those two running rough shod over a group of lesser riders won't be a show that's sustainable for very long.
The Feld SX winners will say domestic champ.
BUT there aint anymore presitge than the US SX series.
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