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"Who wouldn't want to spend xx more Saturdays watching dirtbike racing?"
Oh, I don't know........ maybe someone who gets out and rides dirtbikes? 🤣
"Super-duper-motor-cross" is a fecken joke on all levels. Crap tracks, crap organisation, crap racing, crap manufactured drama, with starts like exhibition races in Europe. It's carnie shit, man.
After 17 rounds of Supercross (which is beta male motocross) you haven't seen enough yet? You REALLY need to see Jett Lawrence win one more time? Did you miss the last time? Remember what Einstein supposedly said about doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different outcome?
I like Weege, but he's really cuckolding himself with his noisy hype about "the most prestigious series in the world" and "world championship bla-bla-bla".
Horseshit. It's exhibition "racing" for prize money, is all.
Exactly, people will call in to pulp tomorrow, but because Steve and JT are in their back pockets, they won’t step out of line and will make excuses
Wow you sound like a treat.
You said all that, when you could have saved the energy and just don't watch SX or SMX.
I haven't been on the board much lately. Busy with work, actually riding, life is just busy. I didn't even see the race yesterday. I pop in here and its meltdown city. Jesus
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About to hit Medicare age soon and back then I think Evil Knievel was the only thing that was live lol
Let me guess. You're one of those folks that believe in socialism...
But that can’t be true. Weedge said “they have been planning it for years”
I’m not near as fired up about this as yall are. Shit happens. Zero chance they were excited about canceling the second motos. Mistakes were made that they should improve upon but if you don’t like smx you can just watch the two traditional champions and not watch smx. Seems like no big deal to me.
Amen. freaking 12 endos on the same jump. I remember last year when they put Super minis at one of these events and it was a crash fest last year. I mean I love challenging tracks and thigns seperating riders but to throw amatuers out there on something like this is a televised Deathwish. Thank you GOD.
Point number 2 though: The women had to/were able to race three motos at iron man, but who would make the boys do such a thing? After all first place in the womens class pays $300.
That's because this sport is ran by people who have ridden a quad twice in there life.
Please no more drag strips.
There were 2,. Bailey won the 1983 & 1984 AMA Wrangler Grand National Championship's. 1984 was the final year as wrangler chose not to renew it's sponsorship of the GN program.
Is SMX a gimmick? I don’t really care. It gives us three more races that aren’t your ordinary sx/mx tracks. I could sit here and complain about it but I’d rather just enjoy the three extra races. I’m willing to bet the same people that are complaining about everything are still going to watch the last two races anyway.
While extra races are good for the fans, what about the riders? Imagine making it through the supercross season, followed by the hot as hell outdoors…only to have ANOTHER series you must ride in (I’m sure it’s in most their contracts). If I were a top pro, I’d love to have a break to recover, recharge, spend time with the fam, than to have to race another series that has no impact on points. While the AMA and Feld may want to make the sport more “mainstream”, I think they just want to capitalize on the offseason time, instead of another promoter. What would make SMX more interesting is if they could incorporate the SMX-style venues and the MONEY into the current points paying series.
Kind of a dumb argument. If the riders don’t like it or need a break they don’t compete. Plenty of riders skip the outdoors. My girlfriend is a teacher and gets the summer off. I would love to have the summer off. I chose to do something else for work. Not sure why everyone worries so much about their salaries and schedule.
Imagine working a 9-5 all year, with maybe 2-3 weeks of vacation. Oh wait… that’s life. We all have to work to provide and survive. These professionals riders are no different. They would never go work a normal job if they had a choice between the two. I don’t feel bad for them.
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And they are so tired and beat up that they still sign up for MXoN, WSX, King of Paris, Ausi-X etc.
Racers wanna race
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I think a handful of people are forgetting the Entertainment part of Feld Entertainment.
I was at the race, was I upset how thing ended, yes. As people commented before, Sunday wasn't an option due to the impossible ask of all the staff members needed to move their schedules, that was just never going to happen. The biggest issue wasn't the lightning, it was the lack of lightning.
I work for a dirt racing company that puts on hundreds of events a year and whenever the lighting at a facility isn't adequate we bring in portable light towers. So the fact that FELD didn't even consider to have them ready on standby in case of a delay like what we ended up having is absolutely unacceptable. You are a multi BILLION dollar company and you cant throw a couple grand at renting some equipment for a just in case situation is a huge lack of foresight. That is what upset me the most.
That being said, racers want to race & there is life changing amounts of money up for grabs. I think it was Marchbanks in an interview saying he had something like $250 in his bank account at one point than he got 7th in the 2023 450SMX standings and got $120 grand in return. For a lot of these guys, the money on the line for SMX is "wreck your own mother" levels of money. And for 3 extra races, guys aren't going to turn that down.
I look forward to the next 2 weeks of action and entertainment before the "off season" and I hope y all do too!
I just view it as an extended, beefed-up version of the Monster Cup. From that lens, it's a fun few rounds of racing to watch. And I don't have a problem with Moto 2 getting canceled last weekend... it's standard practice now for events to be canceled if there's persistent lightning, and it's not as easy to make it up as a baseball team making up a postponed game at their own stadium that's already perfectly set up for them to play baseball.
My only issue is marketing it as a "playoff". Playoffs exist in team sports because teams are only playing each other one at a time and often have different schedules from each other. Therefore, having a bracket-style tournament at the end of the season is the best way to get all the teams who have proven to be "good" onto an even playing field and determine who is truly the best.
A racing series with a points system does not need a separate playoff to determine a champion because every race is effectively a playoff. Every rider is racing every rider, and there's no "ifs" or "buts" about the results. At the end of both the SX and MX seasons, whoever wins each title did everything you could ask a champion to do. There doesn't need to be another round or mini-series to prove who's the best.
You’re on vital so I can’t imagine you don’t know that NBC mandated a playoff be created in the tv package deal they made with feld and mx sports. That is the reason it exists.
I want to see more racing like the Daytona supercross. Obviously the season is too long if nobody can make every round (McElrath was the only one last year).
Less football & baseball stadiums and more speedway-style tracks. Bristol after the NASCAR dirt races would have been perfect. Definitely need better venues than dragstrips, but the racing can be so much more than another supercross round.
Yeah socialism in America is only for rich people and farmers!
What other hyper physical sport goes full on year round??? There are seasons for a reason. Professional sports are not your typical 9 to 5 and why the term elite level is often used. You never hear in the office that Sheila can’t can’t be replaced or she must be here week in and week out cause she’s elite level at payroll.
I get that everything gets put under a microscope on this site, but I mean, who doesnt want to be entertained by MORE racing. The riders are getting MORE money, and MORE riders are racing outdoors which seems to be the preferred series by the masses here.
I don’t know what everyone is complaining about. I subscribe to SuperMotocross Premium+ and got to see the second races.
Does anyone expect smx to stick around long? Especially if wsx goes away? I cant shake the feeling that in a few years theyll eventually get rid of it like they did with monster cup and just go back to sx and mx like it always was. It doesnt feel like its going to be around long imo.
I personally enjoyed Monster Cup. Just enough time away from moto that got me missing moto, and just enough time afterwards to build the anticipation for the SX season - it was a great appetizer. It was also cool seeing silly season be introduced there. Maybe I’m a one off but I really enjoyed Monster Cup.
My take from this weekend was: "Man, SX 2026 should only build bigger tracks like this one"
They just renewed it for 5 years. It has nothing to do with WSX.
So if it does end after 2030, then it was a 8 year run. No way to predict what the landscape looks like in 2031+ right now. But so far the peacock deal has been delivering good numbers. Keep in mind, with the peacock deal and the addition of SMX, it also raised the regular SX and MX purses 30%. Not all the contract money went into just the SMX rounds.
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