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If the organizers of Bercy want J. Stewart to fill their stadium, they will pay what it takes as long as it makes financial sense. All good.
J. Stewart wants $200K to bring his bikes, entourage and everything else so he can race for two nights. The organizers are happy, so again all good.
the Fans will EXPECT James to be HUGELY dominant. As far as he goes, they will want to see a demonstration of his superiority -the race will go on from 2nd back.
What does it matter which other AMA riders go over? Who exactly is going to beat him?
With the greatest of respect nobody in Europe is very familiar with anybody but the top 3 or 4 guys in each AMA class anyway. So ANY American rider(s) will do, and if he gets beat by European (or better yet French) riders that the crowd DO know better yet.
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But you are missing the point!
As I said the race was always going to be for second and going by the crowds reaction they really did enjoy that.
The crowd came to see a "world beating" James Stewart - tick the box.
The crowd came to see good racing (for 2nd place) - tick the box.
The crowd came to see French guys beating americans - tick the box.
So the SHOW was a hit!
The crowd really don't CARE how much James Stewart gets paid - only you guys.
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I feel he would get his 200k and that would mean the promoters would have to sell at least another 3000 tickets at $100 to cover all costs and turn a profit on Lil Jimmy
If you check the website I think they have done that already so it is a win win
Most riders who receive a salary get start money as a base salary and bonuses on top /plus endorsements.
The majority of the elite athletes the world over receive appearance money why should one of the most dangerous be left out.
To Bubba, it's all about the Benjamins, the Bling and bein a Playa.
you think Nick Wey is there because he wants to get beat by french guys?
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this js interview clears up what is is wish for 2010.........and what is is purpose for riding motorcicles........
he took what he could from racing.....now showbizz pays a lot better....!!!!!!!!!
i just dont get the mxgp thing once again.......why should he keep saying he will race mxgps and at the same time of the amasx.......he sure wants to be projected worldwide but that is the way i dont belive he would get it..........
It's definitely a race...but it does have a show attached to it.
SX isn't a union job.
Why doesn't he just show up and ride by himself? Looks to me that is basically what the promoters are doing. Im not hating on James getting the money im hating on the promoters for bringing ONE rider to a race especially in france they won't be happy to come back next year if this is the case.
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They give Stewie 250,000. They set up the show with another rider in the same league and give him 250,000..........oh, yeah...guess there is no other rider in the same league.
Sorry I brought it up.
If the promoters and riders made money then they did their job. Did the fans get the show they expected? If so then they will be back and probably more than this year. That word of mouth thing will play into it.
I guess I'm not star struck or suckered into watching movies becasue some specific guy is in it.
No one's on his case rippin him up and down for making a living for the risk & personality factor. What is there less of a risk of permanent injury?
You guys are really hating on someone from our sport making the best of a situation he is in because he dedicated his life to get there. Are you saying that a good paycheck in a sport where you retire in most cases before 30, is selfish, when you and your family have been building this career since 4years old? GET REAL!!
My point was directed at the promoters that agree to give almost all the apperance money they have to get ONE rider even if it is James they got ONE huge draw kind of rider they easily could've had 4 if it was dispensed a little more logically. (Reed, RV, CP, KW).....the list could go on and on
Then when Jeremy came along and was simply a force of nature, he commanded even more money than JMB and the promoters were glad to pay it, but then he got beat for the '97 title by Jeff Emig, who then asked for champion's level money.... It just kept climbing.
Then along comes another America-beating French rider -- DV12 -- and he commands X amount, but Jeremy is still champion, and then here comes Ricky... It got to the point where the promoter could not afford the King of Supercross, the King of Bercy (DV) and the future GOAT.
So they tried a new tack: The U.S.-versus-France-versus-the-Rest of the World on 250Fs, and it was cool, but it's not what the people wanted: they wanted to see the supercross rider in the world. So they want back to paying top dollar for the top talent.
So now you have reigning champ James Stewart, two-time champ Chad Reed, French national hero Christophe Pourcel, Team USA heroes Villopoto and Dungey, world champions like Cairoli...
That's the market now to get top riders to an international race like Bercy: Pick one of those guys and see what you have left in the budget, then drop down the ladder and see where you end up. They try real hard, but they have a real challenge there every year. It's not like the MXoN, where the guys race for pride and country.
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Held in a real stadium with a full size track. They hardly pay anything in start money and manage to sell the thing out most every year.
Not three nights in a row mind you, but it holds quite a few more people. So it's probably got the gate revenue of an extra night with the additional capacity over Bercy. Maybe two nights, I have no idea how many people the stadium @ Bercy holds.
I wonder how many top pros would show up to race it if they offered Stewart level start money as prize money for the event? Oh right.... why would they waste dough like that when they can sell the place out with a bunch of Canadians and also ran Americans.
These riders may only be making $5k or $10k (which is a lot of money to show up, no matter how you look at it) or whatever to race, but on top of that they get a free all expenses paid trip to Paris, France
Again, it's really not all the complicated to understand why the keyboard jockey's don't like supercross.
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