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ANd I also don't really understand why it's even our business about the GH thing. Except for people that may have already arranged plans to go there.
But I don't think tracks with 3 foot holes and whoops the entire way around it are the way to go.
Motocross tracks will always get rough even if you prep it before every moto......but where do you draw the line? I think you can leave some sections rough, but that doesn’t mean the entire track has to be that way to prove motocross is a bad ass sport.
I was more trying to say I think DC is great for the sport, not harming it.
DC and his family are Moto in the USA. He even won the 85cc Youth National champs in 1980, and who was the promoter?.............................................. his dad Davey snr!
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It was once an underground sport, small in scale and very accessible. At one time, you could got to Lake Whitney for a National, show up on Saturday and sit on Bob Hannah's box van bumper while he practiced. Not any more. Now you buy a pitpass and just maybe get an autograph if your lucky.
I have been reading for the last 20 years how everyone wants this sport to grow. I personally could care less as a fan. I liked it small and underground. It seems the people who want the growth are industry people, and they want the money I would guess.
I still love to watch an outdoor National, I think it is the greatest spectator sport there is, but the ambiance at the races is not the same.
As far as going all Euro on the tracks, that is the wrong way to go. Nationals are supposed to be tough,rough, chewed up, and gnarly.
As someone who has ridden Whitney a lot in the 80s and 90s, I was always amazed at how rough it was for a AMA National, It was not even the same track that I would ride the following weekend. I don't want to see that go away.
That said, I have no problem telling DC how I feel on things and him and I have had a couple, I am not sure I would say "heated" discussions on the phone, but they were certainly "spirited," especially on my side of the line.
My point in saying that is that I don't always agree with everything that goes on in this crazy fucked up sport I love and I don't agree with all the decisions made in and for it.
But I will say this, he gives a shit...plain and simple...DC does give a shit, as does Rita and the rest of the WV gang.
As explained earlier, he's not a guy in a clean suit or polo shirt at the races directing lackeys what to do, because I have on many occasions personally seen DC digging fence post holes, stapling up banners, operating machinery and dragging a rider's bike off the track...all without fanfare, all without photographers around like it's some ceremony.
He does it because he gives a shit.
Is he in it to make money? Of course he is, why wouldn't he be? You fault Mitch Payton for being in it for a profit? We're all in it to make money.
But like Mitch, he gives a shit...he gives a shit about his product and making it a good product.
I would much rather have someone who gives a shit at the helm, someone willing to get their hands dirty, than someone who wants to run the races solely as some social event, dress nice, shake hands and eat from china and never dirtying his hands.
Davey is doing what he needs to do to raise the profile of the US nationals to where it should be - alongside Supercross in the US. Everyone just has to wait and see if it will work.
Have you been to the modern Lakewood track?
We are also skipping over the fact that MX Sports puts on Loretta Lynns, probably the most core event in the sport.
Glen Helen is a great event, but the future of the sport does not rest on it. The future of the sport rests on promotion, TV, attendance, participation, etc. I think MX Sports has already proven themselves.
BP
The way I understand it......... GH was given a warning along with 4 other tracks several years ago to make upgrades to the facilities. DC's own High Point was also on the list along with Troy and Broom Tioga. Troy & Broom sold the races to CO & TX. High Point & Southwick made the necessary changes. GH did not make the changes that were stipulated in the warning.
GH national contract expired last year and ......the upgrades still had not been made. GH was offered a short term contract with the upgrades to be performed but GH refused the contract. GH would only agree to make the changes if they were given a long term contract.
GH made the decision to give up the national by not making the stipulated track changes.......not MX Sports.
BTW..........The Combs family is Moto and has been for 40 years!
How about we find a place to build a track out near Carlsbad...somewhere in the "near-by" vacinity...?
Yup!
You see where I'm goin' with this?!
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i said it before, i never knew there were so many whiny ass jackoffs that love (supposedly) the rough and tough badass hardcore sport called motocross.
DC is a damn good dude that sure doesn't deserve the bashings he takes.
carry on....
and come on here lets be honest, it could be worse, you's could have a fat fucking greedy italian bastard running your series doing away with tracks like gaildorf, hawkstone park, namure, screwing the life out of promoters and riders, making sure sponsors were more happy with pits that you dont get your fuckin feet dirty in rather than the spectator paying a fucking fortune to keep the fat twat up in pasta.
i'd take DC anyday
Well said brother.
I personally would rather be at a National with 10,000 fans who also ride, rather than 30,000 folks, and 20,000 of them do not ride.
i would think from a marketing standpoint, at an outdoor, you have your core audience to market to.
I could care less if Fox and Astars can sell their shirts at JC Penney. These people buying them have no clue what Fox or Astars even makes.
I am not saying I will not go watch a race, I am sure I will, but I personally could care less if the industry guys make more money for themselves or not.
I was at GH in 2003. I thought it was a great track to watch a race at myself.
Like I said, outdoors is supposed to be tough.
There is a already a sport with nice pits, lots, and I mean lots of exposure, plenty of beers sales, lots of rednecks, press boxes, nice facilities, and everything else you could want, it is called NASCAR, and it sucks the big one IMO.
Motocross is not and never will be NASCAR. The industry insiders just need to get over it.
Look at Supercross, it is very mainstream, and there was what, 23 riders showed up in Canada?
It's jus' to easy to throw shit at Luongo, isn't it?
Nice post!
You should get back in your program and finish the rest of the steps; because, you seem stuck on "Anger".
Let it go.
YOU are not Exclusive.
YOU are not the Sport.
YOU don't know shit.
The rest of the "World" knowing about...and...wanting to be a part of this sport...
To be a part of "The Lifestyle"...
To be a part of the Active Outdoor Motorsports Community IS THE ONLY THING THAT WILL KEEP IT ALIVE SO THAT MY -2- YEAR OLD CAN ENJOY IT, TOO...WHEN SHE'S AN ADULT!
Please, go sit down and let the adults talk.
As for the "Industry"?
Again, you don't know shit.
FMF puts SOOOOOOOOO MUCH MONEY into the Nationals, The Teams, The Sport...into Organizations that FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS TO RIDE...& that's jus' ONE Company in this Industry that you "could care less" about.
Well, you see my point.
We don't care about your negative hatin' bullshit.
More "Fox" shirts...
More "Metal Mullisha" shirts and hats...
More "A-Stars"...
More "FMF" stickers over Ford badges...
Keep it comin'...
Keep it growin'...
Keep Riding!
so a few years ago everybody was bitching about how the outdoors were loosing ground to sx, that all the money was to the sx, that the top racers were signing sx only contracts and something had to be done to save motocross in the usa.......
so last year there was better conditions and that brought the so asked tv, even with some live coverage, live internet coverage and all the major players were now interested in mx, even the sx only riders were trying to change their contracts to be able to be there also........it was all good and the sport was growing back to where it should be......evem the million dollar man was trying to blame his team for not being there......so the outdoors were the thing once again.........
now just because one of the major old school tracks, that never showed will to go along with the changes and improvements required and was dropped from the series, and it is still to be known the real reason for it.........alll that was done and achived in this few years, and that was a lot bitched for......is just forgoten and the bitching is now all the way around...........
i have a hard time understanding what makes so much people act like this, they dont argue any alternative ideas, they dont even show they understand whats the issue, they just go around bitching about everything and everybody all over and the only thing we can get from them is "the good old days"...........
I didn't say I wanted FOX or Astar to fail, and I don't think either company is hurting too much. So how was I "hatin" on anything?
It was the NASCAR comment, right? True, I do dislike NASCAR. I just don't get it.
I guess your an insider TeamGreen? Makes sense, but then everyone in SoCal is an insider.
Not me, I don't know shit. But you know it all TeamGreen.
That is the problem with this forum, everyone's an "insider", everyone has the biggest cock, the fastest bike and the hottest girlfriend. Everyone is friends with Bubba and Ricky.
FUCK YOU to TeamGreen. you sound like the typical arrogant SoCal prick.
Was that clear enough? And I am still not angry, but I think you are a little bit.
Have a nice day.
Not bitching here, just sharing my thoughts. I just want to play football for the coach.
I always thought that track showed very well on TV and for spectators. They also seemed to have better facilities than most other tracks.
I'll miss it. I'm not blaming anybody for it being gone, I'd just like to know some more about why it's gone.
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