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slightly different take, the more mainstream the sport becomes the larger the talent pool becomes. More awareness of the sport = more riders = more competition = better bikes = faster lap times.and better racing.
How many more Lawrence's, Tomac's, Prados, Herlings are out there around the world but are drawn to other sports or careers due prize money or prestige?
That's a fair outlook on it as well....
I think there are a million other things chokeholding the sports growth that are just out of our reach and it’s not something a TV series can change.
Moto is a participant driven sport, all of us can appreciate the professionals that we watch every weekend because we ride at varying amateur levels, but we know the general concept of just how hard it is to even survive riding a blown out MX track. We can appreciate how incredible these athletes are because we’ve all ridden, hit the ground, and had highs and lows on the track.
How many non moto people have you met that insinuate MX is easy because you just twist the throttle? Those people will never understand and appreciate what even the three digit guys who aren’t making the night show can do, because they haven’t and probably will never ride a motorcycle off-road in a competitive manner.
Then you have the cost to enter the sport. You need decent gear, so let’s do the bare minimum and drop $1000 there. Now you need a bike, well you can find one for $2500-$3000 that needs a little bit of work, but you don’t know anything about working on bikes so you end up spending closer to $4000-$5000 for something reliable. Then you’re waking up early on a Saturday or Sunday and driving at least an hour to nearest track where you’re paying around $50-$60 to ride for the day.
So just in your first day of riding you’re in for a few thousand, just to see if you even like it. I don’t know many people with that much disposable income to use just to dip their toe into a hobby.
For kids, you can go buy every kind of ball from a sporting goods store for the cost of a decent pair of boots. Now you have 4-5 different activities they can partake in with, that all can be played within 30 minutes of most suburban households. Not to mention MX is one of the only professional sports that takes education ass backwards and basically forces you to be homeschooled from the time you’re 12 if you want a shot at being a top guy and you’re not an absolute anomaly. Also, if you’re good enough at those other sports, you can get a scholarship and further your education to set yourself up for life after you’re done being an athlete.
Rant over.
I love that show. I know it’s potato quality, but this scene brings a tear to my eyes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gjgShGyMWDc&pp=ygUMSm9zaCBsaWNodGxl
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It’s never going to be mainstream
"Drive To Survive" style netflix show would NOT send the sport to mainstream. You're basing the entertainment value off of what is "entertainment" for you. It worked for F1 for many reasons, all reasons that supercross doesn't have or can achieve.
I can't really understand why some of you are blind enough to think so.
That's one part of it but there is also the fact moto requires a lot of money, equipment, travel etc. It also can't be undertaken through schools or some other existing support structure.
Excellent rant. All these 'grow the sports via Netflix' monkeys like Gypsy Ho conveniently forget all of these facts. They also forget that F1 has an entirely different history than moto, was already vastly more popular, and appeals to a different demographic.
Actually, moto and kart racing have a lot of this in common… with kart racing about 5x more expensive. Which then jumps to 20-30x more expensive when lil Johnny is ready to move up to open wheel racing.
I tend to disagree with this take. Granted, F1 already has a storied history and a decent fan base but I think if the general public were exposed to SX/MX on a platform such as Netflix given their production value, storylines, etc., I believe it could created a huge interest and fan base that perhaps didn’t exist before.
Never has....never will. ...and that's just fine with me.
Said it before. We're one step above Monster Trucks to the general public. Circus fodder. If they do recognize a motocross bike, it's because they've seen them being wheelied down the city streets on the 6:00 news
This sport is lucky to have Troy, his content is so high quality
Formula one has had its awkward moments (Abu Dhabi 2021 for example) but overall it’s a professionally put together series with professional people taking part both as drivers and team members. IMAGINE a show dramatising sx, it would be facepalms every 5 minutes. You’d have people fighting, cheating, you’d need an entire show dedicated to explaining the red flag restart rules and then another show to explain why they didn’t follow the red flag restart rules. What a mess.
You’d also need the show to be 5 mins long so they can spend the other 55 minutes thanking their sponsors, god and their family.
The same can be said about F1 only even higher price points for amateurs to the top.
You completely missed the point about MX being a participant sport where F1 is much more of a spectator sport. What percentage of F1 viewers are participating in a sanctioned auto racing event semi regularly?
I work in production and have spoken to Netflix commissioners on this topic. He said doing the "Drive to Survive of x sport" is the most over used reference they get and they're getting the same pitch from every single sport. ha. I do think SX be a great candidate for the Netflix treatment, but everyone is trying to do the same thing with their sport.
This is awesome ty!
Just think about all the confused people seeing Webb holding up the 250sx trophy! 🏆
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Thanks Rickyisms, I was just about to add that. Additionally, I could be off base here but I sometimes feel this idea (propagated by that flea-brain Gyspy Ho) that moto could become like F1 if it only had a Netflix show, is based on US fans not realising how massive F1 has been in the rest of the world for the last 70 years or more. F1 has been the biggest motorsport in the world during all that time - by a large margin. F1 has also always been linked to wealth and glamour - it has a hint of the aristocratic about it - even if some of the drivers don't come from economically privileged backgrounds (eg: Michael Schumacher). Why do you think rich people and not so rich people go out of their way to swan around at F1 races?
Moto is blue collar, and while I hate to agree with that shithead GooFan, he's right the public perception of moto is largely that it's the same as FMX, and is populated by rednecks, and in Australian and New Zealand parlance, bogans.
If moto ever did get it's own show, characters like AP certainly aren't going to help change that perception.
Idk because I don’t follow kart racing. But I bet it would be quite a bit of amateurs who watch F1 with a dream of getting there as a driver. To your other point I even at times don’t think going fast in F1 is as hard as it is in MX because you are on smooth roads and a list of other things but that just isn’t true haha, those guys are insanely talented.
But that’s beside the point because I agree with most everything you said, there is so much more than a Netflix tv series keeping the sport where it is at.
One of my most favorite shows ever. It was so good and ahead of its time. Would it have blown up on Netflix or Amazon? Maybe if it was promoted enough on the apps but I still have my doubts people who have never ridden will ever care about dirt bike racing.
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